1935
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Spain's most celebrated dramatist Federico García Lorca (1898-1936) was murdered by Nationalist sympathizers shortly after the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War. This volume of translations by Gwynne Edwards contains five plays, four of which—The Shoemaker's Wonderful Wife, The Love of Don Perlimplín, The Puppet Play of Don Cristóbal, and The Butterfly's Evil Spell—represent the attractive comic strand in Lorca's work and his use of the traditions of farce and puppet play; the fifth, When Five Years Pass, belongs to Lorca's surrealist phase and is one of his most striking and original contributions to the theatre.
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Federico García Lorca
Author · 58 books
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.
