Five Plays: Comedies and Tragicomedies

by Federico García Lorca, James Graham-Lujan (Translator), Richard L. O'Connell (Translator)

Federico Garcia Lorca's position as one of the few geniuses of the modern theatre was firmly established in the English-speaking world with his Three Tragedies. Here with an introduction by the dramatist's brother, Francisco Garcia Lorca, are five of his 'comedies, ' in the authorized translations, extensively revised to reflect recent Lorca scholarship and to convey the sparkle, freshness, and magic of the original Spanish.

Genres: Plays, Drama, Theatre, Spanish Literature, Spain

254 pages, Paperback

First published June 1, 1963

About the author

Born in Fuente Vaqueros, Granada, Spain, June 5 1898; died near Granada, August 19 1936, García Lorca is one of Spain's most deeply appreciated and highly revered poets and dramatists. His murder by the Nationalists at the start of the Spanish civil war brought sudden international fame, accompanied by an excess of political rhetoric which led a later generation to question his merits; after the inevitable slump, his reputation has recovered (largely with a shift in interest to the less obvious works). He must now be bracketed with Machado as one of the two greatest poets Spain has produced in the 20th century, and he is certainly Spain's greatest dramatist since the Golden Age.