Synopses & Reviews
The Theatre of García Lorca offers radical new readings of his major plays, drawing on cultural studies, women's and gay studies, psychoanalysis, and previously unexamined archival material. It also juxtaposes Lorca with major figures such as Gregorio Marañón, Langston Hughes, André Gide, and Lluis Pasqual, enabling us to see his theater in a new light. In addition, the book presents a new psychoanalytic reading of the plays, which returns to Freud's early clinical texts.
Review
"...this volume affords both the scholar and the aficionado a new and provocative way of looking at Lorca's drama. The book is thoroughly documented and includes production data of significant mountings of each of the plays discussed. Most useful to graduate students and researchers." Choice
Synopsis
a Lorca, the greatest Spanish dramatist of the twentieth century.
Table of Contents
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'.