YermaYerma (meaning 'Barren') is one of three tragic plays about peasants and rural life that make up Lorca's 'rural trilogy'. It is possibly Lorca's harshest play following a woman's Herculean struggle against the curse of infertility. The woman's barrenness becomes a metaphor for her marriage in a traditional society that denies women sexual or social equality. Her desperate desire for a child drives her to commit a terrible crime at the end of the play. |
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Act Three agua alegrıa an˜o aquı ası Barcelona Bernarda Alba bien Blood Wedding casa casada characters child childless co´mo cosas cun˜ada Dalı dark decir dolores Don˜a Rosita Entra esta´n estoy fifth washerwoman final scene Five Years Pass flowers fourth washerwoman Garcıa Lorca gente gossip Granada hermana hijos hombre honour House of Bernarda husband I’ve jasmine’s juan Juan’s Juliet Stevenson lavandera 4a literally Lorca’s plays ma´s Madrid male manos Manuel de Falla Margarita Xirgu maria Mariana Pineda marido marı´a marriage mira mother muchacha 2a mujer nature nin˜o Nuria Espert pagan woman Pausa pecho performance play’s production puerta puppet quiero Rosita the Spinster second girl second washerwoman sexual shepherd Shoemaker’s Wonderful Wife shrine singing sisters song Spanish stream suggests symbolic Teatro Teatro Eslava tell tengo theatre there’s things third washerwoman tienes tragedy victor vieja 1a village women vı´ctor yerma