Federico García Lorca

Federico García Lorca (1898–1936) was a major Spanish poet, playwright, and theatre director of the twentieth century, closely associated with the Generation of 1927. Blood Wedding turns desire, family obligation, and violence into a taut rural tragedy. Yerma examines the pressure of expectation through a marriage shaped by longing and silence, while The House of Bernarda Alba confines its conflict to a household ruled by authority and fear. Poet in New York breaks into harsher, surreal images of urban life; Gypsy Ballads draws on Andalusian folklore, musical cadence, and symbolic narrative. La Casa de Bernarda Alba preserves Lorca’s Spanish title and points back to the play’s original language. Blood Wedding is the clearest dramatic entry, Poet in New York reveals Lorca’s experimental edge, and Gypsy Ballads opens his lyric world.