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Lorca Plays: Two: The Shoemaker's Wonderful Wife, The Love of Don Perlimpln, The Puppet Play of Don Cristbal, The Butterfly's Evil Spell, and When Five Years Pass (World Dramatists)
Lorca Plays Two The Shoemaker's Wonderful Wife The Love of Don Perlimpln The Puppet Play of Don Cristbal The Butterfly's Evil Spell and When Five Years Pass - World Dramatists Author:Federico Garca Lorca Spain's most celebrated dramatist Federico Garca Lorca (1898-1936) was murdered by Nationalist sympathizers shortly after the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War. This volume of translations by Gwynne Edwards contains five plays, four of which-The Shoemaker's Wonderful Wife, The Love of Don Perlimpln, The Pupp... more »et Play of Don Cristbal, and The Butterfly's Evil Spell-represent the attractive comic strand in Lorca's work and his use of the traditions of farce and puppet play; the fifth, When Five Years Pass, belongs to Lorca's surrealist phase and is one of his most striking and original contributions to the theatre.« less