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“Blood wedding” Federico García Lorca (1932) Review | Honour and revenge


Blood wedding
Federico García Lorca, 1932
Bodas de sangre
Spain
80 pages
Read in 2024.09
check synopsis and details on amazon.com


✔ Tragedy written for theatres
✔ Mediterranean life and society
✔ Honour and revenge


🔽 Review summary 🔽

★★★★☆ A very Mediterranean story. Struggle of lovers and mothers, and the men who live and die for honour and revenge. One day hopefully on a stage.


🔽 Book review and notes 🔽
It's a lot shorter than I thought, it's a play that's considered the classic and has powerful emotions.
It's the wild emotions of the lovers and mother, it's the cry of those who lost loved ones in the Mediterranean countryside where honour and revenge are the purpose of living, and worth dying for.

It's most definitely to be enjoyed as a theatre piece so reading it might not be the best experience of it and of course translation might lose its true colour, but being so short it felt like I needed more for me to go deeper into it.
So yes on a stage one day.
🔽 Where to buy 🔽

●●● Amazon.com (US) ●●●

Blood Wedding: A Play (Faber Drama)


●●● Amazon.co.uk (UK) ●●●
Lorca: Three Plays (Blood Wedding, Yerma, The House of Bernarda Alba) (NHB Drama Classics) (Drama Classic Collections)

●●● Amazon.it (Italy) ●●●
Nozze di sangue (Italiano)