{"product_id":"books-bodas-de-sangre-by-federico-garcia-lorca","title":"Bodas De Sangre","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBlood Wedding\u003c\/em\u003e by Federico Garc a Lorca is a classic of Spanish literature, the tragedy of a woman loved by two men. The man she has loved since childhood is hot-blooded Leonardo, but his family are hated by her own folk, and he marries someone else. Then, on her wedding-night, Leonardo carries her off on horseback, pursued by the men of the two shamed families. The two rivals meet in the moonlight in a fight to the death.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLorca said the only hope for happiness lies in 'living one's instinctual life to the full'. And: 'To burn with desire and to remain silent is the greatest punishment we can inflict on ourselves.' Blood Wedding explores the tragic intensity of lived, instinctual passion. For Brendan Kennelly, this involves a return to the very origins of drama: 'The pure pulsing sense of the mysterious nature of life before we learn to explain things almost out of existence . \u003cem\u003eBlood Wedding\u003c\/em\u003e is a drama of agonised and bewildering revelation.' Lorca has a searing realisation of the power of desire. Brendan Kennelly rises to the challenge of how to convey this in an English translation. In language at once soaring and accurate, wild and precise, he does justice to Lorca's tragic vision of the nature and consequences of lived desire. His version of \u003cem\u003eBlood Wedding\u003c\/em\u003e reveals the mysterious, intricate, passionate and truly astonishing nature of Lorca's masterpiece. Brendan Kennelly's versions of Euripides' \u003cem\u003eThe Trojan Women\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eMedea\u003c\/em\u003e, and Sophocles' \u003cem\u003eAntigone\u003c\/em\u003e, are published by Bloodaxe Books in his drama trilogy \u003cem\u003eWhen Then Is Now: Three Greek Tragedies \u003c\/em\u003e(2006). His version of Lorca's \u003cem\u003eBlood Wedding\u003c\/em\u003e was premi red by Northern Stage in Newcastle and Derby in autumn 1996. His \u003cem\u003eAntigone\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Trojan Women\u003c\/em\u003e were both first performed at the Peacock Theatre, Dublin, in 1986 and 1993 respectively; \u003cem\u003eMedea\u003c\/em\u003e premi red in the Dublin Theatre Festival in 1988, toured in England in 1989 and was broadcast by BC Radio 3.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"World of Books ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53480324071697,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9788437605609.jpg?v=1777546017","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-gb\/products\/books-bodas-de-sangre-by-federico-garcia-lorca","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}