Six Major Plays

by Federico García Lorca, Caridad Svich (Translator)

LORCA: SIX MAJOR PLAYS gathers Federico Garca Lorca's most well-known plays in English-language translations by US Latina dramatist Caridad Svich. This new collected edition (previously available only as single set volumes) includes preface by scholars James Leverett and Amy Rogoway. A welcome addition to the translation repertoire of Federico Garca Lorca's works.

392 pages, Paperback

First published June 4, 2009

About the author

Born in Fuente Vaqueros, Granada, Spain, June 5 1898; died near Granada, August 19 1936, García Lorca is one of Spain's most deeply appreciated and highly revered poets and dramatists. His murder by the Nationalists at the start of the Spanish civil war brought sudden international fame, accompanied by an excess of political rhetoric which led a later generation to question his merits; after the inevitable slump, his reputation has recovered (largely with a shift in interest to the less obvious works). He must now be bracketed with Machado as one of the two greatest poets Spain has produced in the 20th century, and he is certainly Spain's greatest dramatist since the Golden Age.