Dona Rosita the Spinster

Dona Rosita the Spinster by Gwynne Edwards

In Dona Rosita the Spinster, set in Granada around 1900, Lorca paints a sympathetic picture of a young girl as she waits in vain for her fiance 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, Dona 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. 'Dona Rosita is the most accessible and personal of all his plays - a wistful tragic-comedy of unfulfilled love' Guardian

'Lorca at his most Chekhovian' Daily Telegraph 'Dona 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. Dona 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

Federico Garcia Lorca was born in 1898, in Andalusia, Spain. A poet and dramatist, and also a gifted painter and pianist, his early popular ballads earned him the title of 'poet of the gypsies'. In 1930 he turned his attention to theatre, visiting remote villages and playing classic and new works for peasant audiences. In 1936, shortly after the outbreak of Civil War, he was murdered by Nationalist partisans.

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ISBN 13	9781408105054
ISBN 10	1408105055
Title	Dona Rosita the Spinster
Author	Gwynne Edwards
Series	Student Editions
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Year published	2008-07-02
Number of pages	208
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