Yerma

Name: Yerma
Author: Federico García Lorca

by Federico García Lorca

Tragedy of a barren woman's obsession with motherhood in patriarchal Spain

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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.

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