Lorca
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the work of Federico Garcia Lorca, author of Blood Wedding, Yerma and The House of Bernarda Alba, executed by Franco's forces, his body unrecovered.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Spanish poet and playwright Federico Garcia Lorca (1898-1936), author of Blood Wedding, Yerma and The House of Bernarda Alba, who mixed the traditions of Andalusia with the avant-garde. He found his first major success with his Gypsy Ballads, although Dali, once his close friend, mocked him for these, accusing Lorca of being too conservative. He preferred performing his poems to publishing them, and his plays marked a revival in Spanish theatre. He was captured and killed by Nationalist forces at the start of the Civil War, his body never recovered, and it's been suggested this was punishment for his politics and for being openly gay. He has since been seen as the most important Spanish playwright and poet of the last century.
With
Maria Delgado
Professor of Creative Arts at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, University of London
Federico Bonaddio
Reader in Modern Spanish at Kingâs College London
And
Sarah Wright
Professor of Hispanic Studies and Screen Arts at Royal Holloway, University of London
Producer: Simon Tillotson
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LINKS AND FURTHER READING
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READING LIST:
Reed Anderson, Federico GarcĂa Lorca (Macmillan, 1984)
Paul Binding, Lorca: The Gay Imagination (GMP Publishers, 1985)
Federico Bonaddio (ed.), A Companion to Federico GarcĂa Lorca (Tamesis, 2007)
Gerald Brenan, The Face of Spain (first published 1951; Serif, 2010), especially the chapter âGranadaâ
Salvador DalĂ and Federico GarcĂa Lorca (ed. Christopher Maurer), Sebastianâs Arrows: Letters and Mementos of Salvador DalĂ and Federico GarcĂa Lorca (University of Chicago Press, 2005)
Maria Delgado, Federico GarcĂa Lorca (Routledge, 2008)
Gwynne Edwards, Lorca: The Theatre Beneath the Sand (Marion Boyars, 1980)
Gwynne Edwards, Lorca: Living in the Theatre (Peter Owen, 2003)
Ian Gibson, The Assassination of Federico GarcĂa Lorca (Penguin, 1983)
Ian Gibson, The Death of Lorca (J. P. OâHara, 1973)
Ian Gibson, Federico GarcĂa Lorca: A Life (Pantheon Books, 1989)
Federico GarcĂa Lorca (ed. Christopher Maurer), The Collected Poems (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2002)
Federico GarcĂa Lorca (trans. Christopher Maurer), Deep Song and Other Prose (Marion Boyars, 1982)
Jonathan Mayhew, Lorcaâs Legacy: Essays in Interpretation (Routledge, 2018)
Paul McDermid, Love, Desire and Identity in the Theatre of Federico GarcĂa Lorca (Tamesis, 2007)
Rafael MartĂnez Nadal, Lorcaâs The Public: A Study of His Unfinished Play (El Publico) and of Love and Death in the Work of Federico GarcĂa Lorca (Calder & Boyars, 1974)
Paul Julian Smith, The Theatre of GarcĂa Lorca: Text, Performance, Psychoanalysis (Cambridge University Press, 1998)
Leslie Stainton, Lorca: A Dream of Life (Bloomsbury, 1998)
Sarah Wright, The Trickster-Function in the Theatre of GarcĂa Lorca (Tamesis, 2000)
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Broadcasts
- Thu 4 Jul 2019 09:00±«Óătv Radio 4
- Thu 4 Jul 2019 21:30±«Óătv Radio 4 FM
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