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First: drain the mud before the arrival of the bulldozer. There was one family which had a front yard large enough to dig a drainage pit in. The dona da casa (woman of the house) thought it would be all right...
...this first collection in English of the Lorca "comedies." Two of the five were written by Lorca when he was in his teens for presentation in the puppet theater that he had built for the entertainment of neighborhood children. Of the others, only one is a genuinely major work, Dona Rosita, the Spinster, which Lorca wrote two years before his death...
Dying Wolf. In Dona Rosita's three acts very little happens onstage: a woman begins sewing the trousseau for her wedding, the man she is engaged to leaves for America and does not return; the woman grows old in the delusion that some day he will come back to her. Time is the real protagonist. Language gives the play its life. "Everything is finished," says the old maid. "Yet I go to bed and get up again with the most terrible of all feelings-the feeling of having hope. Hope pursues me, encircles me, bites me; like a dying...
John Keats, a critic of suburbia and the auto business (The Crack in the Picture Window; The Insolent Chariots), might seem an improbable chronicler of this episode in wartime bravery. For many readers, his superslick style and self-confessed "literary license" ("Dona Carmen looked up at Fertig, the candlelight glinting in her dark hair") is about as fitting as chrome brightwork on a Jeep. Nonetheless, working with official records and with Fertig himself, who lives today in Colorado, Author Keats has produced a compelling and rewarding tale of endurance and character...
...Dona Maria de las Mercedes de Borbon y Orleans, was Rome's biggest social event of 1935. After a honeymoon...