From Lorca's prologue to a puppet play: 'This is not the first time that I, the drunken puppet who marries Dona Rosita, leaves the hand of Federico Garcia Lorca on the stage, where I live and never die. The first time was in the house of this poet- remember that, Federico? It was spring in Granada, and the drawing rooom of your house was full of children who were saying: ' the puppets are flesh and bone, so how come they remain children and never grow up?' The famous Manuel de Falla was at the piano and there performed for the first time in Spain Stravinsky's Histoire d'un soldat...' Collected for the first time in a single volume, Federico Garcia Lorca's Four Puppet Plays, A Play Without a Title, the Divan Poems; Other Poems, Prose Poems and Dramatic Pieces represent the purest examples of the poet's genius and range.

Author Biography

Federico Garcia Lorca (1898-1936) was born in Fuente Vaqueros, Granada. The son of a liberal landowner, he studied at the Universities of Granada and Madrid. He published his first book of poems in 1921. His most famous plays are the three 'folk tragedies' Blood Wedding (1935), Yerma (1937) and The House of Bernarda Alba (1940). He also wrote puppet plays and popular farces. Poetic works include Gypsy Ballads (1928) and Lament for the Death of a Bullfighter and Other Poems (1935) - both profoundly Andalusian in mood and imagery - and the surrealist Poet in New York (1940). A left-wing intellectual, Lorca was forced into exile during the Spanish Civil War and murdered near Alfacar by Franco's Nationalists in 1936.