Yerma

Author/Contributor(s):	Lorca, Federico Garcia ; Edwards, Gwynne ; Edwards, Gwynne ; Edwards, Gwynne ; Megson, Chris ; Stevens, Jenny
Publisher:	Methuen Drama
Date:	06/27/2008
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

Yerma (meaning 'Barren') is one of three tragic plays about peasants and rural life that make up Lorca's 'rural trilogy'. It is possibly Lorca's harshest play following a woman's Herculean struggle against the curse of infertility. The woman's barrenness becomes a metaphor for her marriage in a traditional society that denies women sexual or social equality. Her desperate desire for a child drives her to commit a terrible crime at the end of the play.