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In Doña Rosita the Spinster, set in Granada around 1900,
Lorca paints a sympathetic picture of a young girl as she waits in vain
for her fiancé to return and her hopes of marriage fade. The fate of
Rosita, symbolised by the rosa mutabile, which pales from red to pink
to white in the course of a day, appears the more poignant as Lorca
casts a satirical eye at the middle-class society of Granada by which
she is surrounded.
First performed in 1935, Doña Rosita was greeted as one of Lorca's finest achievements and it remains a classic work of Spanish theatre alongside Lorca's Blood Wedding, The House of Bernarda Alba and Yerma.
This Student Edition features parallel English and Spanish texts of the
play, together with a full commentary, questions and a bibliography.
'Doña Rosita is the most accessible and personal of all his plays - a wistful tragic-comedy of unfulfilled love' Guardian
Published | 01 Oct 2008 |
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Format | Paperback |
Edition | 1st |
Extent | 208 |
ISBN | 9781408105054 |
Imprint | Methuen Drama |
Illustrations | N/A |
Dimensions | 198 x 129 mm |
Series | Student Editions |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
'Lorca at his most Chekhovian'
Daily Telegraph
'Doña Rosita is the most accessible and personal of all his plays - a wistful tragic-comedy of unfulfilled love'
Guardian
'[In] this delicately moving play, about fading beauty and passing time... realism mixes effortlessly with symbolism. Doña Rosita is a touchingly accurate picture of a woman sustained by an illusion. But she also becomes an emblem of Spanish womanhood victimised by men'
Guardian
'A desolate comedy of thwarted love, which ... shows Lorca's world in a fresh light'
Evening Standard
'Lyrical and atmospheric...Around this sad, simple story, Lorca weaves a lament for mutability and waste'
Sunday Telegraph
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