Two Plays Blood Wedding, Doña Rosita the Spinster

Two of the most performed and studied plays by the most important Spanish poet and dramatist of the 20th century, in definitive new translationsDoa Rosita tells the story of a young woman who falls in love with a man who is called away to South America. He swears to return and Rosita waits until she learns he has already married someone else. Garca Lorca portrays what he himself called the grotesque treatment of women in Spain. The action is set in Granada, Spain at three different years portraying the bourgeois life of the 1880s and the modernisation and the beginning World War I during the early 1900s. The House of Bernarda Alba written a few months before Lorcas death, the plays explores themes of repression, passion, and conformity, and examines the effects of men upon women.