Blood Wedding | Thematic Patterns in Lorca's Blood Wedding
In the following essay, Eva K. Touster discusses the concept of “modern poetic drama” through a variety of styles.
Lorca has been widely praised for the achievement in Blood Wedding of a tragic form, the distinctive features of which are the fusion of lyric and dramatic impulses; the skillful integration of a musical pattern in the drama's structural design; the thematic relevance of songs, stage effects, and recurrent images—in short, for the assimilation of the Spanish folk and classical traditions in a poetic drama that is modern, sophisticated, and authentic. But some questions remain to puzzle the reader, especially the reader of an English version of the play: How does Blood...
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