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Repression,
By paco (londres) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Three Plays: Blood Wedding/Yerma/the House of Bernada Alba (Hardcover)
This book encapsulates three of Lorca's most famous and indeed interesting plays, together with brief reviews, into one volume. Blood Wedding tells the story of a scandal set in Andalucia in the south of Spain. Based on a real story which Lorca discovered in the local press, it examines the rigid social structure of Spain at that period. The imagery is strong, drawing comparisons to the arid landscape of the area and the weak willed men, and emphasising the true romanticism which the 'ill starred lovers' experience. The story is intriguingly similar to Romeo and Juliet and yet very much a story in its own right, due to its social comments, and the fact that, along with 'La Casa de Bernarda Alba' in particular, reveals much about the sexual repression that Lorca himself experienced, given that he was homosexual in a strongly catholic country. 'The House of Bernarda Alba' is also cleverly included in this trilogy, providing valuable comparisons with the other two texts. About a fatherless household, again in Andalucia, it tells how natural passion overrides the social rules which bind the young women in the house, who ultimately rebel against their matriarch, the tyrannical Bernarda Alba. This story is again centralised around the power of our basic instincts, but does not have the same beauty, due to the lack of mutual love between the characters. Where Leonardo in Blood Wedding did what he did for true love, Pepe El Romano is a far more shallow character, looking to have his cake and eat it. Yerma is the third rural tragedy, along similar lines as the other two plays, it is about the frustration of a childless young wife, not permitted to fulfil her natural abilities. Lorca examines here the role of women in the repressive suffocating heat of Spanish culture, and asks some interesting questions, perhaps inspired by his sensitivity to their situation.
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