# The House of Bernarda Alba and Other Plays

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- Authors: [Federico García Lorca](https://www.bookquiver.com/federico-garcia-lorca)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2001-04-26

## Description

In The House of Bernarda Alba , a tyrannical matriarch rules over her house and five daughters, cruelly crushing their hopes and needs. The other plays here also portray female characters whose desires are tragically and violently frustrated: a woman’s longing for a child in Yerma , and a bride’s yearning for her lover in Blood Wedding . All appeal for freedom and sexual and social equality, and are also passionate defences of the imagination: in Christopher Maurer’s words, ‘poetic drama unsurpassed by any writer of our time’.

## Editions

### The House of Bernarda Alba and Other Plays

- Publisher: penguin_classics
- ISBN: 978-01-4118-575-0
- Pages: 208
- Published: 2001-04-26
- Language: en_GB