Doña Rosita the Spinster

<p>In <i>Doña Rosita the Spinster</i>, set in Granada around 1900,<br>Lorca paints a sympathetic picture of a young girl as she waits in vain<br>for her fiancé to return and her hopes of marriage fade. The fate of<br>Rosita, symbolised by the rosa mutabile, which pales from red to pink<br>to white in the course of a day, appears the more poignant as Lorca<br>casts a satirical eye at the middle-class society of Granada by which<br>she is surrounded. </p><p>First performed in 1935, <i>Doña Rosita</i> was greeted as one of Lorca's finest achievements and it remains a classic work of Spanish theatre alongside Lorca's <i>Blood Wedding</i>, <i>The House of Bernarda Alba </i>and <i>Yerma</i>.<br>This Student Edition features parallel English and Spanish texts of the<br>play, together with a full commentary, questions and a bibliography.</p><p>'Doña Rosita <i>is the most accessible and personal of all his plays - a wistful tragic-comedy of unfulfilled love' </i>Guardian</p>