Lorca Plays: 3: The Public; Play without a Title; Mariana Pineda (World Classics) - Federico García Lorca
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Lorca Plays: 3: The Public; Play without a Title; Mariana Pineda (World Classics)

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Language
English
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Publisher
Methuen Drama
Pages
208
ISBN
9780413652409
After the death of her second husband, the tyrannical matriarch Bernarda Alba imposes a strict eight-year period of mourning on her five daughters. Confined within the suffocating walls of their home in a rural Spanish village, the women are forbidden from any contact with the outside world, their desires and individual spirits systematically suppressed under their mother's authoritarian rule. The deliberate exclusion of men from the stage heightens the palpable sexual tension and simmering resentments that swell within the household.

As the days turn into a seemingly endless cycle of grief and confinement, the arrival of a handsome suitor interested in the eldest daughter's inheritance ignites a fierce current of jealousy, passion, and rebellion among the sisters. This singular hope for escape threatens to shatter the family's fragile peace and unleash the tragic consequences of repressed emotion. The play explores the destructive nature of conformity and the devastating clash between societal expectation and individual desire, questioning what happens when the human spirit is caged.

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English
Original publisher Methuen Drama

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