Lorca's Experimental Theater

Andrew A. Anderson, professor emeritus of Spanish at the University of Virginia, is the author of Configurations of a Cultural Scene: Young Artists and Writers in Madrid, 1918-1930 and many other works. He is the editor of nine critical editions of Lorca's writings, among them the first scholarly edition of the original manuscript of Poeta en Nueva York.

Both students and specialists will be grateful for this lucidly written book, an ambitious and insightful rereading and remapping of Federico García Lorca's experimental theater one which guides us masterfully through some of the playwright's most challenging works. - Christopher Maurer, editor of Lorca's Collected Poems and Selected Verse ""Anderson offers readers an insightful account of Lorca's dramatic trajectory and the ways in which his experimental theater often metatheater pushed the boundaries of theatrical convention. Anderson's detailed readings of plays, combined with treatments of Lorca's influences, from Broadway to Expressionism, persuade us both of Lorca's modernity and of his place within the historical avant-garde."" - Federico Bonaddio, author of Federico García Lorca: The Poetry in All Things ""Anderson has written a groundbreaking study of Lorca's avant-garde theater. He convincingly interprets the plays as Expressionist debates on theater and truth, personal identity and political commitment."" - James Valender, professor, Centro de Estudios Lingüísticos y Literarios, El Colegio de Mexico