The House of Bernarda Alba (Further Reading)

Further Reading

• Colecchia, Francesca, Editor. Garcia Lorca: A Selectively Annotated Bibliography of Criticism, Garland (New York City), 1979; Garcia Lorca: An Annotated Primary Bibliography Garland, 1982.

  Extensive bibliographies with many useful listings for researchers. One volume covers scholarship on Lorca’s plays, the other Lorca’s works in Spanish and in translation.

• Klein, Dennis A. Blood Wedding, Yerma, and The House of Bernarda Alba: Garcia Lorca’s Tragic Trilogy, G.K. Hall & Co. (Boston), 1991.

  The first full-length critical study devoted to Lorca’s tragic trilogy, which the author calls “the most accomplished and mature efforts of the finest Spanish playwright of the twentieth century.” Klein works through the original Spanish texts (providing quotations in his own English translations), examining the trilogy both in the larger context of Lorca’s career as a poet, playwright, director, and visual artist, and in the social context of Spain in Lorca’s era.

• Lima, Robert. The Theater of Garcia Lorca, Las Americas (New York City), 1963.

  A critical study surveying all the plays of Lorca’s available in print at the time of its publication.

• Londre, Felicia Hardison. Federico Garcia Lorca, Ungar (New York City), 1984.

  Examines Lorca’s artistry by emphasizing a synthesis of approach to his poetry, drama, music, visual art, and stage direction. Includes a full chapter devoted to what Lorca called his “unperformable plays.” The House of Bernarda Alba is treated in detail, pp. 172-180, and discussed elsewhere in the work.

• Newton, Candelas. Understanding Federico Garcia Lorca, University of South Carolina Press (Columbia), 1995.

  Newton provides her audience with an understanding of the Andalusian region where he was born, as a basis for appreciating his writing. She establishes connections between Lorca’s works to illustrate the variety of approaches that Lorca employed. Contains an annotated bibliography and other resources for the student researcher.

• Twentieth Century Literary Criticism, Vols. 1, 7, 49, Gale (Detroit), 1978, 1982, 1994.

  This resource compiles selections of criticism; it is an excellent beginning point for a research paper about Lorca. The selections in these three volumes span Lorca’s entire career. Also see Volume 2 of Gale’s Drama Criticism. For an overview of Lorca’s life, see the entry on him in Volume 108 of the Dictionary of Literary Biography.