The House of Bernarda Alba and Other Plays

In The House of Bernarda Alba, a tyrannical matriarch rules over her house and five daughters, cruelly crushing their hopes and needs. The other plays here also portray female characters whose desires are tragically and violently frustrated: a womans longing for a child in Yerma, and a brides yearning for her lover in Blood Wedding. All appeal for freedom and sexual and social equality, and are also passionate defences of the imagination: in Christopher Maurers words, poetic drama unsurpassed by any writer of our time.