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The Theatre of Garcia Lorca: Text, Performance, Psychoanalysis

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title The Theatre of Garcia Lorca: Text, Performance, Psychoanalysis
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Paul Julian Smith
SeriesCambridge Studies in Latin American and Iberian Literature
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:200
Dimensions(mm): Height 228,Width 153
Category/GenreLiterary studies - from c 1900 -
Literary studies - plays and playwrights
ISBN/Barcode 9780521057462
ClassificationsDewey:862.62 862.62
Audience
Professional & Vocational
Illustrations 11 Halftones, unspecified

Publishing Details

Publisher Cambridge University Press
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publication Date 28 January 2008
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

The Theatre of Garcia Lorca offers radical new readings of his major plays, drawing on cultural studies, women's and gay studies, psychoanalysis, and previously unexamined archival material. It provides fascinating historical accounts of productions in different times and places, from New York in the 1930s to Madrid in the 1980s. It also juxtaposes Lorca with major figures such as Gregorio Maranon, Langston Hughes, Andre Gide, and Lluis Pasqual, enabling us to see his theatre in a new light. In addition, the book presents a new psychoanalytic reading of the plays, which returns to Freud's early clinical texts. Examining the complex and productive intersection of history and fantasy that is characteristic both of Garcia Lorca's theatre and of the cult to which it has given rise, this study offers a thorough reassessment of Lorca's work.

Reviews

"...this volume affords both the scholar and the aficionado a new and provocative way of looking at Lorca's drama. The book is thoroughly documented and includes production data of significant mountings of each of the plays discussed. Most useful to graduate students and researchers." Choice