La casa de Bernarda Alba

Federico García Lorca's 1945 drama is set in a small Spanish village, where the five daughters of a tyrannical mother struggle against her strict control. The play explores themes of repression, passion, and conformity, and the effects of love upon men upon women. This edition is designed to help students approach the original Spanish text through an introductory essay, vocabulary and cultural notes, and study questions. All material is in Spanish, and complete in one volume, appropriate as an introductory text for Spanish language courses in literature and culture.

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Federico García Lorca
Edited by Paola Bianco and Antonio Sobejano-Morán

2005 - 94 pp. - Imprint: Focus

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Federico García Lorca's 1945 drama is set in a small Spanish village, where the five daughters of a tyrannical mother struggle against her strict control. The play explores themes of repression, passion, and conformity, and the effects of love upon men upon women.

This edition is designed to help students approach the original Spanish text through an introductory essay, vocabulary and cultural notes, and study questions. All material is in Spanish, and complete in one volume, appropriate as an introductory text for Spanish language courses in literature and culture.


About the Authors:

Antonio Sobejano-Morán is professor of Spanish at SUNY-Binghamton University since 1986. He received his baccalaureate degree from the Universidad de Salamanca, Spain; his masters and doctorate from Michigan State University. He has published extensively on twentieth-century Spanish literature and twentieth-century Spanish theater and has taught language and literature courses at many levels. He has also served as AP table leader in Spanish and Latin American Literature for ETS.

Paola Bianco has taught at Wilkes University since 1996 and fluently speaks, reads and writes English, Spanish, Italian and French. Prior to joining Wilkes, Dr. Bianco served as an Intermediate Italian Coordinator at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and served as the Study Abroad Program Coordinator and Assistant Director at the Lorenzo de’ Medici Institute in Florence, Italy, while attaining her PhD. in Romance Languages. She has published books and articles on poetry, literature, Italian culture and Hispanic women writers.