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FIVE PLAYS by Federico Garcia Lorca. 246 pages. New Directions...
Early one morning in the summer of 1936, Federico Garcia Lorca was taken to a field outside the old Moorish city of Granada and shot by a Falangist firing squad. This was ordered, it now seems possible, not because Lorca had any political affiliations but because Manuel Fernandez Montesinos, the Socialist mayor of Granada, was his brother-in-law. His death was a reminder that in the Spain of the time, virtually any consideration could expose a man to a firing squad from either side. Lorca was buried in a shallow, unmarked grave on a hillside beside several thousand other...
...Lorca's dramatic death left him a reputation as a revolutionary-which he was not-and gave rise to a Lorca cult that did him no service by drawing attention away from his works and for cusing it on his life. He was, in fact, a lyric poet of great talent-although many critics would argue that either Antonio Machado or Miguel Hernandez among his contemporaries was a finer writer. Lorca was a romantic, and what he restored to the literature of Spain was the tragic vision that Cervantes understood and that left Hemingway mesmerized. "It is Spanish," said...
Passion & Loathing. Lorca wrote 13 plays, but he was not in any usual sense a playwright. His best works-Yerma, Blood Wedding, The House of Bernarda Alba-are really prose poems, and no one of them has the kind of dramat ic power that seals an audience in its seat. Yerma is the story of a young peasant woman who yearns so passionately for a child that she finally murders her sterile husband, crying "But I have killed my son!" Blood Wedding is a study of one of the terrible family feuds that used to be waged generation after generation...
...them, consequently, read better than they play, and the same is true of 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...