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Baroque Lorca : an archaist playwright for the new stage
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ISBN: 100076625X 1003011403 9781000766257 9781003011408 9781000766417 1000766411 9781000766578 1000766578 0367820099 9780367820091 1032048204 Year: 2020 Publisher: New York ; London : Routledge,

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Baroque Lorca: An Archaist Playwright for the New Stage defines Federico García Lorca's trajectory in the theater as a lifelong search for an audience. It studies a wide range of dramatic writings that Lorca created for the theater, in direct response to the conditions of his contemporary industry, and situates the theory and praxis of his theatrical reform in dialogue with other modernist renovators of the stage. This book makes special emphasis on how Lorca engaged with the tradition of Spanish Baroque, in particular with Cervantes and Calderón, to break away from the conventions of the illusionist stage. The five chapters of the book analyze Lorca's different attempts to change the dynamics of the Spanish stage from 1920 to his assassination in 1936: His initial incursions in the arenas of symbolist and historical drama (The Butterfly's Evil Spell, Mariana Pineda); his interest in puppetry (The Billy-Club Puppets and In the Frame of Don Cristóbal) and the two 'human' farces The Shoemaker's Prodigious Wife and The Love of Don Perlimplín and Belisa in the Garden; the central piece in his project of 'impossible' theater (The Public); his most explicitly political play, one that takes the violence to the spectators' seats (The Dream of Life); and his three plays adopting, an altering, the contemporary formula of 'rural drama' (Blood Wedding, Yerma and The House of Bernarda Alba).


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Love, desire and identity in the theatre of Federico Garcia Lorca
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ISBN: 1282185608 9786612185601 1846155657 9781846155659 Year: 2007 Publisher: Woodbridge, UK ; Rochester, NY : Tamesis,

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Physical desire and metaphysical love in the theatre of Federico Garc©Ưa Lorca. A dialectical tension between physical desire and metaphysical love lies at the heart of the theatre works of Federico Garc©Ưa Lorca, and the deployment of queer theory's critique of gender and identity is surprisingly effective inthis discussion of love versus desire. Seldom is enough attention paid to the poet's early works, and so this book offers a timely review of the 'religious tragedy' Cristo, as well as Mariana Pineda, uncoveringin these early offerings an explicit proposal of the supremacy of love over desire. A meditation on the fragmentary and challenging El p©ðblico yields a vivid panorama of identity in crisis, and a paradigmatic Lorcan sacrifice of self for love. The ostensibly more conventional tragedies of Amor de Don Perlimpl©Ưn con Belisa en su jard©Ưn and Yerma are also reassessed in terms of self-sacrifice and self-love. The study concludes with an argument for a practical re-reading of La casa de Bernarda Alba, which emphasises how the play might be saved from po-faced realism with music, humour and drag performance. PAUL McDERMID lectures in Spanish at Queen's University Belfast.

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