Blood Wedding

By Federico García Lorca and Ma de Lourdes Solórzano Muñoz

Book Overview

Lorca's Blood Wedding is a classic of twentieth-century theatre. The story is based on a newspaper fragment which told of a family vendetta and a bride who ran away with the son of the enemy family. Lorca uses it to investigate the subjects which fascinated him: desire, repression, ritual, and the constraints and commitments of the rural Spanish community in which the play is rooted. Ted Hughes's version stays close in spirit and letter to the original Spanish. With marvellous directness, he fused Lorca's vision to his own, and the result is a powerful poetic text which captures all the violence and pathos of the play for an English-speaking audience.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0571190065
• ISBN13: 9780571190065
• Release Date: February 1997
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 4.9" x 7.7"

Customer Reviews

---Bodas de sangre.--- Federico Garcia Lorca.

Sinceramente recomiendo este libro, a todos aquellos que sean amantes de la literatura llena de sentimientos y no les importe derramar algunas lagrimas.

Passionate Wedding

Blood Wedding by Lorca is an excellent book, full of excellent imagery and real images that leap out at you. The storyline holds your attention and keeps it till you finish it. The story is told in a beautiful, moving way and haunts you long after you finish reading the book.

Sex, Violence, and Horses

Lorca is often called the 20th century's greatest Spanish dramatist, and his skill with poetry in images of knives, sex, love, blood, horses and the moon illuminates this English translation. While my knowledge of Spanish is limited, the conflict of a Bride longing for but yet resisting another man who has already fathered a child by his Wife is poignantly portrayed in this version. The other man (Leonardo) rides a horse nearly to death, and rides like mad to see his about-to-be-married love beyond the peering eyes of others. His driven horse stands "down there stretched out, with his eyeballs bulging, heaving as if he'd just come back from the end of the world." The conflicts of love and the Bridegroom's Mother, who has lost her husband and her other son to violence, and the building passion, hate, love and the continual imagery of the wild horse--representing Leonardo himself?--build in poetic images and language that begins in the real and subtly transforms to surrealistic images of the moon who exposes the hidden shadows, then returns to the poetically real. In some aspects, the images of horse and rider hint at the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, but a knowledge of them is unnecessary to experience the passion of this play written by a friend of the then young Salvador Dali. The play is worth reading for its visual imagery alone, but it also encompasses a powerful story of passion, betrayal, hate, violence and love.

Chose to perform

This will be a very brief review, but basically we have chosen this book to perform for or theatre studies cat. It is a really good play, and I recomend it to anyone who likes reading plays.