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Blood Wedding (Spanish: Bodas de sangre) is a tragedy by Spanish dramatist Federico García Lorca. It was written in 1932 and first performed at Teatro Beatriz in Madrid in March 1933, then later that year in Buenos Aires, Argentina .
- Federico García Lorca
- 1979
Blood Wedding Summary. A young man referred to simply as the Bridegroom enters his home and tells his mother that he’s going out to their vineyard to cut grapes. This makes his mother anxious, as she curses the invention of knives and anything that “can cut a man’s body.”. Going on in this manner, she reminisces about the death of the ...
Aug 4, 2020 · Blood Wedding, in which García Lorca attempted to represent that heart, originated from a newspaper account of a murder committed before a wed-ding near the Andalusian town of Níjar, in the province of Almería. The dead man was the previous lover of the bride, who, after running away with her the night before the wedding, had been killed by ...
Blood Wedding, folk tragedy in three acts by Federico García Lorca, published and produced in 1933 as Bodas de sangre. Blood Wedding is the first play in Lorca’s dramatic trilogy; the other two plays are Yerma and The House of Bernarda Alba.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Historical Context of Blood Wedding. Although Blood Wedding presents itself as a work of realism, it becomes progressively symbolic as the play goes on. This is likely due to the influence on García Lorca’s work of Symbolism, which emerged in the early twentieth century. Symbolism was largely a reaction to Naturalism, which had dominated ...
Blood Wedding was adapted into a film in 1981. The film, directed by Carlos Saura, tells the story through a stylized form of flamenco dance (a flamenco troupe was used in the film). The film is in Spanish, but subtitled versions are available in the United States. are peripheral to the main action but who comment on it.
Leonardo is curt and sharp with his Wife for no reason at all, and he fails to take much notice of their child. The next day the Bride’s servant prepares her to meet with her father, the ...
