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Title: Blood Wedding : A Play by Federico Garcia Lorca, Ted Hughes ISBN: 0-571-19006-5 Publisher: Faber & Faber Pub. Date: 06 February, 1997 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $11.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (3 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: Blood Wedding
Comment: This is going to short, but I found the play below standards set by the author. There is weak imagery combined by poor, ineffective dialogue, yet there are nice character settings. There is a nice story line combining fire and passion in Leonardo's case with love for the bride, yet it is let down by the poor use of language. It is good for reading before bed, but other than that, I'd say "NO", like the "Just Say NO" drug ads.
Rating: 5
Summary: Sex, Violence, and Horses
Comment: 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.
Rating: 5
Summary: Chose to perform
Comment: 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.
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Title:Federico Garcia Lorca's "Blood Wedding": A Study Guide from Gale's "Drama for Students" ASIN: B00006G3CM Publisher: The Gale Group Pub. Date: 23 July, 2002 List Price(USD): $3.95 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $3.95 |
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Title: Bodas De Sangre by Federico Garcia Lorca, Federico Garcia Lorca, Federico Garcma Lorca ISBN: 9505811101 Publisher: Colihue/Argentina Pub. Date: March, 1994 List Price(USD): $10.80 |
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Title: The Visit: A Tragi-Comedy by Friedrich Durrenmatt, Patrick Bowles ISBN: 0802130666 Publisher: Grove Press Pub. Date: September, 1983 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: Long Day's Journey into Night, Second edition by Eugene O´Neill, Harold Bloom ISBN: 0300093055 Publisher: Yale Univ Pr Pub. Date: 01 March, 2002 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Miss Julie and Other Plays (Oxford World's Classics) by August Strindberg, Michael Robinson, Johan A. Strindberg ISBN: 0192833170 Publisher: Oxford Press Pub. Date: January, 1999 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
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