The Theatre of García Lorca: Text, Performance, Psychoanalysis

by Paul Julian Smith

Book Overview

The Theatre of Garc a Lorca offers radical new readings of his major plays, drawing on cultural studies, women's and gay studies, psychoanalysis, and previously unexamined archival material. It also juxtaposes Lorca with major figures such as Gregorio Mara n, Langston Hughes, Andr Gide, and Lluis Pasqual, enabling us to see his theater in a new light. In addition, the book presents a new psychoanalytic reading of the plays, which returns to Freud's...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521057469
• ISBN13: 9780521057462
• Release Date: January 2008
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"