The House of Bernarda Alba and Other Plays (Penguin Modern Classics)
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
0141185759
ISBN 13
9780141185750
Category
002
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Publication Year
2009
Publisher
Pages
208
Description
In "The House of Bernarda Alba", a tyrannical matriarch rules over her house and five daughters, cruelly crushing their hopes and needs. The other plays here also portray female characters whose desires are tragically and violently frustrated: a woman's longing for a child in "Yerma", and a bride's yearning for her lover in "Blood Wedding". All appeal for freedom and sexual and social equality, and are also passionate defences of the imagination: in Christopher Maurer's words, 'poetic drama unsurpassed by any writer of our time'. - from Amzon
Number of Copies
2
