The Theatre of Garc}}a Lorca Text, Performance, Psychoanalysis [Hardcover]

A study of the plays of Garc?a Lorca, the greatest Spanish dramatist of the twentieth century.The Theatre of García Lorca offers radical new readings of his major plays, drawing on cultural studies, women's and gay studies, psychoanalysis, and previously unexamined archival material. It also juxtaposes Lorca with major figures such as Gregorio Marañón, Langston Hughes, André Gide, and Lluis Pasqual, enabling us to see his theatre in a new light. In addition, the book presents a new psychoanalytic reading of the plays, which returns to Freud's early clinical texts.The Theatre of García Lorca offers radical new readings of his major plays, drawing on cultural studies, women's and gay studies, psychoanalysis, and previously unexamined archival material. It also juxtaposes Lorca with major figures such as Gregorio Marañón, Langston Hughes, André Gide, and Lluis Pasqual, enabling us to see his theatre in a new light. In addition, the book presents a new psychoanalytic reading of the plays, which returns to Freud's early clinical texts.The Theatre of García Lorca offers radical new readings of his major plays, drawing on cultural studies, women's and gay studies, psychoanalysis, and previously unexamined archival material. It also juxtaposes Lorca with major figures such as Gregorio Marañón, Langston Hughes, André Gide, and Lluis Pasqual, enabling us to see his theater in a new light. In addition, the book presents a new psychoanalytic reading of the plays, which returns to Freud's early clinical texts.Introduction; Text, performance, psychoanalysis; 1. Yerma and the doctors: Garc?a Lorca, Mara??n, and the anxiety of bisexuality; 2. Black Wedding: Garc?a Lorca, Langston Hughes, and the translation of introjection; 3. Poet in Paris: Asi que pasen cinco anos (When Five Years Pass), Corydon, and the truth of anamnesis; 4. Garcia Lorca and the socialists: subsil&