Federico García Lorca
Spain's greatest 20th-century playwright and poet, Lorca combined Andalusian folk culture, surrealism, and intense lyricism to create works of haunting beauty. His rural tragedies explore passion, repression, and fate with operatic intensity. He was murdered by Francoist forces at 38.
Works
- Blood WeddingTragedy about a bride whose wedding triggers a cycle of violence and death
- The House of Bernarda AlbaTragedy depicting the oppression of women in a strict Spanish rural household
- YermaTragedy of a barren woman's obsession with motherhood in patriarchal Spain
- The Shoemaker's Wonderful WifeFarcical play about a newlywed's infidelity and his wife's revenge
- When Five Years PassSurrealist poetic drama exploring time, desire, and human relationships
- The Shoemaker's Prodigious WifeFarce depicting marital conflict between a shoemaker and his problematic wife