Yerma (Student Editions)

Yerma has a more original focus than prior Lorca plays, centering on his time and place with significant universal overtones - the tragedy that results when women are unable to have children in a culture leaving them little else. The play is unsurprisingly a feminist favorite, but anyone with empathy for people in sad situations will see much pathos. Yerma vividly dramatizes the repression of women in early twentieth-century rural Spain, throwing their trials and travails into sharp relief against the general culture. We quickly see how unjust it was, but Lorca knows better than to offer a simple solution, instead showing the tragedy that comes from this very lack. However, reducing the play to didactic status does it something of a disservice, as its empathy for women is sadly not universal. Perhaps more importantly, Yerma is a highly memorable character who earns our sympathy despite carrying her obsession to what can only be called psychosis and committing an unjustifiable act. Dramatically, Yerma sheds early plays' Greek tragedy influence for an intense focus on a single theme and character. Yerma is onstage nearly the whole time and always the focus. Her part is one of modern theater's most difficult; only a tremendous actor could do it convincingly. We can see a definite growth in Lorca's art, with him pushing modern theater's boundaries in more than one way, though this is still not his best play.

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Very useful guide for a first time reader of Lorca.you will find a useful intro to set the important biographical event of the author and a bilingual version of the work (one page in spanish with the facing in english) which will make your understanding lf the work easier.the annotations will help you to understand certain symbolism used by the author more clearly.The cover is not important as there are older and newer versions of this book, the content is what matters.I have one copy and I always recommend this edition to my Alevel students.

A good edition that allows both study of the writer and a sound translation of the text itself. Just what I needed.

You didn't send me this copy of the book? You sent an orange cover when I ordered this version of it :)