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Blood Wedding: Concerned with love that cannot become marriage among the primitive hill people of Castile, this is a play of the workings of tremendous passions and tribal ritual toward an inescapable tragic end.
Yerma: According to Edwin Honig, author of a biography on Lorca, “The whole tragic burden of Yerma is measured by the deepening of her struggle with the problem of frustrated motherhood.”
The House of Bernarda Alba: Again about “women whom love moves to tragedy," Bernarda Alba tells of the repression of five daughters by a domineering mother, of how their natural spirits circumvented her but bring violence and death.
