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.
| ISBN: | 9780713683264 |
| Publication date: | 20th February 2007 |
| Author: | Federico García Lorca, Gwynne Edwards |
| Publisher: | Bloomsbury Methuen Drama an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 137 pages |
| Series: | Methuen Drama Student Editions |
| Genres: |
Plays, playscripts Literary studies: plays and playwrights |