Five Plays; Comedies and Tragicomedies, Volume 10Federico García 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 García 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. The Shoemaker's Prodigious Wife tells of a young beauty married to an old man, a theme that often concerned Lorca. The resolution for the earnest shoemaker, who leaves home and comes back disguised as a puppeteer, is lighthearted, but there is underlying pathos. The Love of Don Perlimplin is again about a girl who weds someone much older, this time a bookish, 18th-century gentleman, who seeks an original but sardonic way out of the situation. According to Lorca himself, "Dona Rosita is the outer gentleness and inner scorching of a girl in Granada who, little by little, turns into that grotesque and moving thing -- an old maid in Spain." |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
The BillyClub Puppets | 13 |
The Shoemakers Prodigious Wife | 57 |
The Love of Don Perlimplín | 105 |
Doña Rosita the Spinster | 131 |
The Butterflys Evil Spell | 191 |
Music for the Plays | 237 |
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AUNT balcony BELISA Bernadette Mayer Billy-Club BOYBEETLE breeze Butterfly child COCOLICHE comes CURRITO CURTAIN dark Don Blackbird Don Cristóbal Don Cristobita DON MARTÍN Don Perlimplín DOÑA BEETLE Doña Rosita door dressed drink entering entremés eyes FATHER Federico García Lorca FIELDBEETLE FIGARO flowers girl goes Granada green GUARDBEETLE Gustavo Pittaluga hair hand heard heart HOUSEKEEPER husband kisses laugh leaves look MARCOLFA married MAYOR meadow Mistress Cobbler MOTHER NEPHEW never night Pause play poet Puppets QUAKEBOOTS RED NEIGHBOR rose SAINTBEETLE SASH YOUTH SCENE SCORPY SECOND AYOLA SECOND LAD SECOND SPINSTER SECOND SPRITE servant SHOEMAKER Shoemaker's Wife shouting sighs singing sits song soul stage sweetheart SYLVIA talk tell there's things THIRD FIREFLY THIRD MANOLA THIRD SPINSTER Tragicomedies trembling UNCLE voice WEARISOME wears weeping What's wind window WITCHBEETLE woman YELLOW NEIGHBOR young