Federico García Lorca

<p>Immortalized in death by The Clash Pablo Neruda Salvador Dalí Dmitri Shostakovich and Lindsay Kemp Federico García Lorca's spectre haunts both contemporary Spain and the cultural landscape beyond. </p><p>This study offers a fresh examination of one of the Spanish language’s most resonant voices; exploring how the very factors which led to his emergence as a cultural icon also shaped his dramatic output.</p><p>The works themselves are also awarded the space that they deserve combining performance histories with incisive textual analysis to restate Lorca’s presence as a playwright of extraordinary vision in works such as:</p><ul> <li>Blood Wedding</li> <li>The Public</li> <li>The House of Bernarda Alba</li> <li>Yerma.</li> </ul><p><em>Federico García Lorca</em> is an invaluable new resource for those seeking to understand this complex and multifaceted figure: artist playwright director poet martyr and in the eyes of many Spain’s ‘national dramatist’. </p>