The Theatre of Garcia Lorca

A study of the plays of Garcia Lorca, the greatest Spanish dramatist of the twentieth century.

Introduction; Text, performance, psychoanalysis; 1. Yerma and the doctors: García Lorca, Marañón, and the anxiety of bisexuality; 2. Black Wedding: García Lorca, Langston Hughes, and the translation of introjection; 3. Poet in Paris: Asi que pasen cinco anos (When Five Years Pass), Corydon, and the truth of anamnesis; 4. Garcia Lorca and the socialists: subsidised cinema, Pasqual's public, and the identification of affect; Conclusion; 'Doing Lorca'.