Immortalized in death by The Clash Pablo Neruda Salvador DalA DmitriShostakovich and Lindsay Kemp Federico GarcAa Lorcas spectre haunts bothcontemporary Spain a... » 

Immortalized in death by The Clash Pablo Neruda Salvador DalA DmitriShostakovich and Lindsay Kemp Federico GarcAa Lorcas spectre haunts bothcontemporary Spain and the cultural landscape beyond.This study offers a fresh examination of one of the Spanish languagea TMsmost resonant voices exploring how the very factors which led to his emergenceas a cultural icon also shaped his dramatic output.The works themselves are also awarded the space that they deserve combiningperformance histories with incisive textual analysis to restate Lorcaa TMspresence as a playwright of extraordinary vision in works such as Blood Wedding The Public The House of Bernarda Alba Yerma.Federico GarcAa Lorca is an invaluable new resource for those seeking tounderstand this complex and multifaceted figure artist playwright directorpoet martyr and in the eyes of many Spaina TMs a national dramatista TM. «