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1	The House Of Bernarda Alba/La Casa de Bernarda Alba more books like this by Lorca Federico Garcia, Gwynne Edwards (Translator) add to wishlist Bernarda Alba is a widow, and her five daughters are incarcerated in mourning along with her. One by one they make a bid for freedom, with tragic consequences. Lorca's tale depicts the repression of women within Catholic Spain in the years before the war. The House of Bernarda Alba is Lorca's last and possibly finest play, completed shortly before ... see all copies from $5.40! new only from $11.30! \| SVS
2	Blood Wedding more books like this by Federico Garca Lorca, Gwynne Edwards (Translator) add to wishlist Blood Wedding is set in a village community in Lorca's Andalusia, and tells the story of a couple drawn irresistibly together in the face of an arranged marriage. This tragic and poetic play is the work on which his international reputation was founded. Like many of Lorca's passionate and intensely lyrical plays that focus on peasant life and the ... see all copies from $2.62! new only from $7.23! \| first editions \| SVS
3	Tirso de Molina: The Trickster of Seville Tirso de Molina: Trickster of Seville more books like this by Tirso De Molina, Gwynne Edwards (Editor) add to wishlist Tirso de Molina was, with Lope de Vega and Calderon, one of the great dramatists of 17th century Spain, which produced a theatre as vital rich and as varied as its Elizabethan counterpart. The Trickster of Seville is thoroughly representative of the drama of Spain's Golden Age: a drama of fast-moving action which set its face against classical ... see all copies from $36.33! new only from $36.33!
4	Three Major Plays: Fuente Ovejuna/The Kight from Olmedo/Punishment Without Revenge more books like this by Lope De Vega, Gwynne Edwards (Translator) add to wishlist Lope de Vega (1562-1635), widely regarded as the architect of the drama of the Spanish Golden Age, was known by his contemporaries as the 'monster of Nature' on account of his creativity as a playwright. Claiming to have written more than a thousand plays, he created plots and characters notable for their energy, inventiveness and dramatic power, ... see all copies from $8.83! new only from $8.83! \| SVS
5	Lorca Plays: Two: The Shoemaker's Wonderful Wife, the Love of Don Perlimpla-N, the Puppet Play of Don Crista3bal, the Butterfly's Evil Spell, and When Five Years Pass by Federico Garcia Lorca, Federico Garca Lorca, Gwynne Edwards (Translator) add to wishlist "Lorca is one of the few indisputably great dramatists of the twentieth century" Observer The Shoemaker's Wonderful Wife and The Love of Don Perlimplin use an old story of the old man married to the young wife to expose the social attitudes of a traditional Spain bound by rigid concepts of decency, reputation and honour. The Puppet Play deploys ... see all copies from $26.63! new only from $26.63!
6	Almodovar: Labyrinths of Passion more books like this by Gwynne Edwards add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.95!
7	Lorca Plays: One: Blood Wedding, Doaa Rosita the Spinster, and Yerma more books like this by Federico Garcia Lorca, Federico Garca Lorca, Gwynne Edwards (Introduction by) add to wishlist These three tragedies were written at the height if Lorca's powers and display his innovative mix of Spanish popular tradition and modern dramatic technique. Blood Wedding tells the story of a couple drawn irresistibly together in the face of an arranged marriage; Dona Rosita the Spinster follows the appalling fate of a young woman beguiled into ... see all copies from $2.50! new only from $12.14!
8	The Discreet Art of Luis Buauel: A Reading of His Films more books like this by Gwynne Edwards add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $99.00!
9	Lorca: Living in the Theatre more books like this by Gwynne Edwards add to wishlist Federico Garcia Lorca's theatre, like that of Strindberg and Tennessee Williams, voices his personal dilemmas, not the least of which was his homosexuality. This study of all of his plays examines the way in which the dramatist's life was transformed into high art through influences as varied as surrealism and Greek tragedy. In an attempt to cover ... see all copies from $5.48! new only from $5.48! \| first editions
10	Lorca Plays: Three more books like this by Federico Garcia Lorca, Henry Livings (Translator), Gwynne Edwards (Introduction by) add to wishlist "Lorca is one of the few indisputably great dramatists of the twentieth century" Observer Mariana Pineda achieved immediate critical success on its first performance in Barcelona in 1927. The Public is a powerful and uncompromising demand for sexual, and specifically homosexual, freedom - as predicted it was never performed in Lorca's time - it ... see all copies from $13.31! new only from $14.22! \| SVS
11	Calderon Plays: One by Pedro Calderon de La Barca, Gwynne Edwards (Translator) add to wishlist In recent years, the English-language theatre has rediscovered Calderon and a number of highly successful productions have been staged. These translations by Gwynne Edwards capture the ferocious spirit of his work in sharp and speakable translation The three plays included here represent Calderon's most celebrated work, in which he explores the ... see all copies from $13.95! new only from $33.05!
12 view cover	Lorca, the Theatre Beneath the Sand more books like this by Gwynne Edwards add to wishlist This greatly acclaimed study traces Lorca's career as a playwright from his first play, The Butterfly's Evil Spell, to his last, The House of Bernarda Alba. [theater][criticism] see all copies from $4.05! new only from $11.54!
13 view cover	Three Spanish Golden Age Plays: The Duchess of Amalfi's Steward/The Capulets and Montagues/Cleopatra more books like this by Lope de Vega, Rojas Zorrilla, Gwynne Edwards (Translator) add to wishlist Three classic Spanish plays, made famous by Shakespeare and Webster Two of the most famous and successful playwrights of Spain's Golden Age of playwriting were Lope de Vega (1562-1635) and Rojas Zorrilla (1607-48). From their prodigious output, the three plays in this volume, based on similar sources to Shakespeare's and Webster's versions, ... see all copies from $15.15! new only from $15.15! \| SVS
14 view cover	Dona Rosita the Spinster by Federico Garca Lorca, Gwynne Edwards (Translator) add to wishlist In Dona Rosita the Spinster, set in Granada around 1900, Lorca paints a sympathetic picture of a young girl as she waits in vain for her fiance to return and her hopes of marriage fade. The fate of Rosita, symbolised by the rosa mutabile, which pales from red to pink to white in the course of a day, appears the more poignant as Lorca casts a ... see all copies from $4.57! new only from $9.13! \| SVS
15 view cover	Burning the Curtain: Four Revolutionary Spanish Plays more books like this by Gwynne Edwards (Translator) add to wishlist see all copies from $6.87! new only from $12.14!
16 view cover	Flamenco! more books like this by Gwynne Edwards (Text by), Ken Haas add to wishlist The word "flamenco" has an international resonance, yet few people know much about flamenco itself - for most it means a colourful Spanish dance but behind the superficial image lies a significant history and evolution. This study explores this history from its earliest beginnings in songs, to its present sophistication in the combination of ... see all copies from $25.00! signed copies \| first editions
17 view cover	Indecent Exposures: Buauel, Almoda3var, Etc. more books like this by Gwynne Edwards add to wishlist see all copies from $15.95!
18	Prison and Labyrinth: Studies in Calderonian Tragedy more books like this by Gwynne Edwards add to wishlist see all copies from $10.00! first editions
19	Dramatists in Perspective: Spanish Theatre in the Twentieth Century more books like this by Gwynne Edwards add to wishlist see all copies from $30.00!
20 view cover	A Companion to Luis Buauel more books like this by Gwynne Edwards add to wishlist Luis Bunuel (1900-1983) was one of the truly great film-makers of the twentieth century. Shaped by a repressive Jesuit education and a bourgeois family background, he reacted against both, escaped to Paris, and was soon embraced by Andre Breton's official surrealist group. His early films are his most aggressive and shocking, the slicing of the ... see all copies from $68.22! new only from $88.42! \| first editions
21 view cover	A Cultural Journey Through Andalusia: From Granada to Seville more books like this by Gwynne Edwards add to wishlist This book provides a clear and comprehensive account of those aspects of Andalusia which through the centuries have created its essential character. The Moorish influence evident in such architectural treasures as the Alhambra in Granada, the Great Mosque in Cordoba, and the Moorish palaces of the Alcazar in Seville is considered in detail. Other ... see all copies from $30.00! new only from $30.00! \| SVS
22 view cover	Lorca, Bunuel, Dali: Forbidden Pleasures and Connected Lives more books like this by Gwynne Edwards add to wishlist Lorca, Bunuel and Dali were, in their respective fields of poetry and theatre, cinema, and painting, three of the most imaginative creative artists of the twentieth century; their impact was felt far beyond the boundaries of their native Spain. But if individually they have been examined by many, their connected lives have rarely been considered. ... see all copies from $40.49! new only from $40.49! \| SVS
23	La Hija del Aire': Edicia3n CRA-Tica more books like this by Pedro Calderon de La Barca, Pedro Calderon de La Barca, Gwynne Edwards (Editor) add to wishlist see all copies from $31.99!
24	The Connoisseur period guides to the houses, decoration, furnishing, and chattels of the classic periods more books like this by Ralph Edwards (Compiled by), L. G. G. Ramsey add to wishlist see all copies from $26.57!
25	Zoological Record: v. 105 by Gwynne Vevers (Volume editor), M.A. Edwards (Volume editor) add to wishlist see all copies from $419.17!

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