{"product_id":"the-public-play-without-a-title-paperback","title":"The Public \u0026 Play Without a Title - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eFederico Garcia Lorca\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eCarlos Bauer\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFederico Garcia Lorca called \u003cem\u003eThe Public\u003c\/em\u003e \"the best thing I've written for the theater.\" Yet, he acknowledged, \"this is for the theater years from now.\" Now, half a century later, \u003cem\u003e The Public\u003c\/em\u003e and another of Lorca's most daring works, \u003cem\u003ePlay without a Title\u003c\/em\u003e, are available in English translation for the first time. Surrealism, folk theater, poetry, vivid costumes, black humor--in the \u003cem\u003eThe Public\u003c\/em\u003e, dramatic traditions are ransacked to develop themes as timely in the 1980s as they were taboo when Lorca was writing: if Romeo were a man of thirty and Juliet a boy of fifteen, would their passion be any less authentic? No, says a young observer of the play within the play, \"I who climb the mountain twice each day and, when I finish studying, tend an enormous herd of bulls that I've got to struggle with and overpower at every instant, I don't have time to think about whether Juliet's a man or a woman or a child, but only to observe that I like her with such a joyous desire.\" In both \u003cem\u003eThe Public\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003ePlay without a Title\u003c\/em\u003e, the player himself is of as much consequence as the role he plays. The fierce, stark \u003cem\u003ePlay without a Title\u003c\/em\u003e, with its cast of Author, Prompter, Stagehand in the wings, and hecklers in the gallery, clearly heralds developments in today's avant-garde theater. It also reflects the violence of the times in which it was written. As Carlos Bauer notes in his introduction, neither of the plays in this volume was complete in 1936, when Lorca was assassinated by Franco's forces. Still, both have here the unity and grace of finished tours de force.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 96\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.23 x 7.99 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 17, 1983\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47450498859186,"sku":"9780811208819","price":12.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/1eb379f23c96bc17e4690d9c1dc44d40.webp?v=1778786857","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/the-public-play-without-a-title-paperback","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}