Description
Book SynopsisFederico García Lorca was born into an educated family of small landowners in Fuente Vaqueros in 1898. In 1928 his
Gipsy-Ballad Book (
Romancero gitano) received much public acclaim. In 1929 he went to New York with Fernando de los Ríos and his volume of poems
Poet in New York (
Poeta en Nueva York) was published posthumously in 1940. On his return to republican Spain, he devoted himself to the theatre, as co-director of La Barraca, a government-sponsored student theatrical company that toured the country. He now wrote fewer poems, but these include his masterpiece
Lament for Ignacio Sánchez Mejías (
Llanto por la muerte de Ignacio Sánchez Mejías, 1935), a lament for a dead bullfighter. He wrote classical plays, pantomimic interludes, puppet plays,
La zapatera prodigiosa (1930) and three tragedies:
Blood Wedding (
Bodas de sangre, 1933),
Yerma (1934) and
The House of Bernarda Alba (
La casa de Bernarda Alba,
