Four Major Plays - Oxford World's Classics

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Federico García Lorca Nicholas Round John Edmunds Jr. Ann Maclaren

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Four Major Plays - Oxford World's Classics

Federico García Lorca(Author) Nicholas Round(Author) John Edmunds(Author) Jr.(Author) Ann Maclaren(Author)

4.15 (158 Ratings by Goodreads)

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Published: 9 October, 2008

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`I have made a terrible discovery ... I have not yet been born ... I live off borrowed substance; what I have within me is not mine.' In his four last plays Federico García Lorca offered his disturbed and disturbing personal vision to Spanish audiences of the 1930s - unready, as he thought them, for the sexual frankness and surreal expression of his more experimental work. The ill-fated lovers of Blood Wedding, the desolate Yerma, the fading spinster Rosita, and Bernarda Alba's abused household of women all inhabit a familiar Andalusia. Their predicaments are starkly plotted, with a stagecraft rooted in classical theatrical tradition. In such figures Lorca addresses the cultural and political ferment of his time with a fiercely libertarian assault on 'old and wrong moralities', fusing the personal and the political through his virtuoso mastery of images. Yet all that mastery can barely keep at bay the anguished contradictions of these doomed human lives. Hence the authentic sense of danger - the duende, to use his own word of Lorca's theatre, finely conveyed here in John Edmunds's fluent and rhythmic new translations that lend themselves admirably to performance. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

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ISBN13	9780199537518
ISBN10	0199537518
Number Of Pages	288
Item Weight	216 g
Product Dimensions	128 x 196 x 19 mm
Publisher / Reseller	Oxford University Press
Format	paperback

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His versions are accurate ... faithful ... fluent and idiomatic; they look like utterances of English ... Readers can be sure that the texts will not lead them astray, but they will also be grateful for the quite excellent introductory essay by Nick Round. This is a characteristically gritty display of erudition and common sense ... extremely well-prepared edition. * Times Literary Supplement *

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Nicholas Round is Hughes Professor of Hispanic Studies at the University of Sheffield. His published and performed translations of Spanish and Portuguese theatre range from the 17th-century comedia to the 1950s. John Edmunds founded the Department of Theatre, Film, and Television Studies at the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, and was Director from 1973 to 1985. Four of his translations of plays by Racine and Molière have been broadcast on BBC Radio Three. He performs in `spoken word' recital programmes.

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Four Major Plays - Oxford World's Classics

Federico García Lorca Nicholas Round John Edmunds Jr. Ann Maclaren

4.15 ( 158 Ratings by Goodreads)