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The house of Bernarda Alba

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Finished just two months before the author's murder on 18 August 1936 by a gang of Franco's supporters, The House of Bernarda Alba is now accepted as Lorca's great masterpiece of love and loathing. Five daughters live together in a single household with a tyrannical mother.

When the father of all but the eldest girl dies, a cynical marriage is advanced which will have tragic consequences for the whole family.

Lorca's fascinatingly modern play, rendered here in an English version by David Hare, speaks as powerfully as a political metaphor of oppression as it does as domestic drama.

The House of Bernarda Alba premiered at the National Theatre, London, in March 2005.

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Faber & Faber
0571227570 / 9780571227570
Paperback / softback
822.92
17/03/2005
United Kingdom
English
vi, 75 pages
20 cm
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