La casa de Bernarda Alba marks the completion of Lorca's 'trilogia de la tierra española' and is commonly held to be his greatest play. The theme of vitality and repression that runs as a leitmotif through his writings takes on a clearer social dimension in the 'drama de mujeres en los pueblos de España', with the presentation of a household of five unmarried daughters tyrannised by their mother's excessive concern with social class and obscurantist village morality.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
1. Introduction
Preliminaries
An outline of the play
Vitality and Repression
Realism and poetry
'La obra más perfecta'?
2. Selected bibliography
3. La casa de Bernarda Alba
4. Endnotes
5. Selected vocabulary
