Focus: Bodas de Sangre by Spanish author Federico García Lorca
Federico García Lorca's life lived only through conflict, which was perhaps the greates irony of this brilliant author's life. Born in 1898, the year that Spain's colonial empire was dismantled, and dying in 1936, the start year of yet another Spanish civil war, Lorca lived his life knowing that a man such as himself would not see a peaceful world.
"In Spain, the dead are more alive than the dead of any other country in the world." - F.G. Lorca
'...Woodcutter.
Cut my shadow from me.
Free me from the torment
of seeing myself without fruit.'
(F.G. Lorca, excerpt from poem "Song of the Barren Orange Tree")
Bodas
de Sangre forms part of
Federico García Lorca's most acclaimed dramatical trilogy. This
site contains a lesson for the Advanced Placement Spanish Literature
students to further analyze this work of art in connection with the
Spanish turmoils of the late XIX-early XXth century.
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