Date of Award
1971
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Arts (M.A.)
Department
English
First Advisor
Louis H. Leiter
First Committee Member
Charles Clerc
Second Committee Member
Ruth Marie Faurot
Abstract
The tragedy, La casa de Bernarda Alba, by Federico Garcia Lorca is generally recognized as one of the finest poetic tragedies of the Twentieth Century, yet it has not drawn the critical attention afforded the plays of Lorca's contemporaries, such as 'Tennessee Williams, for example. Ironically, Williams' early plays evince a definite. Lorquian influence. Close attention has been paid to the poetic texture of.Williams plays, providing an important contribution to understanding the art of his poetic tragedy. The same has not been true of Lorca. This may he due partly to the fact that Lorca's ·tragedies have not played very well in the United States and partly due to political considerations in his native Spain.
It is the purpose of this essay to make a detailed analysis of the poetic structure of La casa de Bernarda Alba to show Lorca's brilliant welding of the basic elements 10f' the drama into one underlying statement of theme, This will be accomplished through a close reading of the play as originally written in the Spanish language with especial attention paid to its setting, dominant image patterns, characters, and action. These, then, will be examined and elucidated in relationship to thematics, thus demonstrating Lorca's dramatic technique of fusing these fundamental parts through use of language and symbol into one unified whole.
Pages
107
Recommended Citation
Bird, Iris Scribner. (1971). A study of image, symbol, and theme in La casa de Bernarda Alba. University of the Pacific, Thesis. https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/uop_etds/1752
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