Composers and their stage works 


Federico GARCÍA LORCA

(1898 - 1936): Spanish poet and dramatist. Born Fuentevaquros, Granada June 5, 1898. Died (executed) August 19 (?), 1936

 

Stage Plays

  1. El maleficio de 1a mariposa (The Butterfly's Evil Spell). Verse fantasy, 2 acts. Written 1919. Published 1957. Produced Madrid, Teatro Esclava, Mar. 22, 1920.
  2. Mariana Pineda. Verse romance, prologue and 3 acts. Written 1923. Published 1928. Produced Barcelona, Teatro Goya, June 25, 1927. Madrid, Teatro Fontalba, October, 1927.
  3. La zapatera prodigiosa (The Shoemaker's Prodigious Wife). Violent farce, prologue and 2 acts. Written ca. 1926. Published 1938. Produced Madrid, Teatro Español, Dec. 24, 1930. Second version: Written ca. 1931/ 32. Published 1938. Produced Buenos Aires, Teatro Avenida, Nov. 21, 1933: Madrid, Teatro Coliseum, Mar. 18, 1935.
  4. El paseo de Buster Keaton (Buster Keaton's Promenade). Sketches. Written 1928.
  5. La tragicomedia de don Cristóbal y la señá Rosita (The Tragicomedy of Don Cristóbal and Doña Rosita). Puppet farce, prologue and 6 scenes. Written 1928. Published 1949. Produced Madrid, Teatro de la Zarzuela, 1937.
  6. El amor de don Perlimplín con Belisa en su jardín (The Love of Don Perlimplín for Belisa in His Garden). Erotic aleluya, prologue and 4 scenes. Written 1928. Published 1938. Produced Madrid, Teatro Español, Apr. 5, 1933.
  7. Asíque pasen cinco años (When Five Years Pass). Legend of time, 3 acts. Written 1931. Published 1937. Produced New York, Provincetown Playhouse, Apr. 5, 1945 (in English): Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico, University of Puerto Rico, Nov. 22, 1954.
  8. El retablillo de don Cristóbal (The Puppet Play of Don Cristóbal). Puppet farce, 1 act. Written 1931. Published 1938. Produced Madrid, La Feria del Libro, May 11, 1935.
  9. Bodas de sangre (Blood Wedding). Tragedy, 3 acts. Written 1932. Published 1935. Produced Teatro Beatriz, Mar. 8, 1933.
  10. Yerma. Tragedy, 3 acts. Written 1934. Published 1937. Produced Madrid, Teatro Español, Dec. 29, 1934.
  11. Doña Rosita la soltera, o El lenguaje de las flores (Doña Rosita the Spinster, or The Language of the Flowers). Granadine poem, 3 acts. Written 1935. Published 1938. Produced Barcelona, Teatro Principia Palace, Dec. 13, 1935.
  12. El público (The Audience). Play. Written 1930. Published 1976. Produced Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico, University of Puerto Rico, February, 1978.
  13. La casa de Bernarda Alba (The House of Bernarda Alba). Tragedy, 3 acts. Written 1936. Published 1945. Produced Buenos Aires, Teatro Avenida, Mar. 6, 1945.
  14. Untitled play one act of apparently longer work. Written 1935-1936? Published 1978.

Criticism

Spanish

  • G. Díaz-Plaja, Federico Garcia Lorca: Estudio crítico, Buenos Aires, 1948
  • R. G. Sánchez, Garcia Lorca: Estudio sobre su teatro, Madrid, 1950
  • A. del Rio, Vida y obras de Federico Garcia Lorca, Saragossa, 1952
  • M. T. Babin, Garcia Lorca: Vida y obra, New York, 1955
  • A. de la Guardia, Garcia Lorca, persona y creación, Buenos Aires, 1961
  • A. Berenguer Carisomo, Las máscaras de Federico Garcia Lorca, Buenos Aires, 1969 (2nd. ed.)
  • F. Ruiz Ramón, Historia del teatro español: Siglo XX, Madrid, 1977 (3nd. ed.), pp. 173-209.

English

  • A. Barea, Lorca: The Poet and His People, London, 1944, New York, 1949
  • M. Durán, ed., Lorca: A Collection of Critical Essays, Englewood Cliffs, N.J., 1962
  • E. Honig, Garcia Lorca, Norfolk, Conn., 1944, rev. ed., Norfolk, Conn., 1963
  • R. Lima, The Theatre of Garcia Lorca, New York, 1963
  • R. C. Allen, Psyche and Symbol in the Theatre of Federico Garcia Lorca, Austin, 1974
  • V. Higginbothom, The Comic Spirit of Federico Garcia Lorca, Austin, 1976.