Bodas De Sangre

Bodas de Sangre meant the definitive success -both of public and critique- for playwright Federico Garcia Lorca. As a playwright he succeeded at staging the great issues of his poetry, his symbols, images and ideas, while creating a dramatic performance that captivated the audiences of Spain, Europe and the Americas.With this play Lorca achieved his most cherished ambition: to reach the masses, to impassionate with his plays vast and differently cultured audiences of diverse origins, nationalities and customs, without debasing himself to ¿commercial theater¿ commonplaces and vulgarity.Lorca succeeded with a different and suggestive play, deeply rooted in the classic tragedy concept and staged in modern times. A modern tragedy in Garcia Lorca''s Andalusia, that in a similar way to Garcia Marquez''s Macondo, or Faulkner''s Yoknapatawpha, becomes a particular space, part myth part poetry, where reality intertwines with artistic creation.In this edition Borja Rodriguez Gutierrez analyzes i