House of Bernarda Alba and Other Plays

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In The House of Bernarda Alba, a tyrannical matriarch rules over her house and five daughters, cruelly crushing their hopes and needs. The other plays here also portray female characters whose desires are tragically and violently frustrated- a woman's longing for a child in Yerma, and a bride's yearning for her lover in Blood Wedding. All appeal for freedom and sexual and social equality, and are also passionate defences of the imagination- in Christopher Maurer's words, 'poetic drama unsurpassed by any writer of our time'.

Book details and technical specifications

Format: Paperback / softback
ISBN13: 9780141185750
Published: April 2001

Number of pages: 208
Width: 129 mm
Height: 198 mm
Depth: 12 mm

Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd