La Casa De Bernarda Alba | Federico Garcia Lorca...

(1936), or The House of Bernarda Alba , is the final play written by Spanish dramatist Federico García Lorca . Subtitled "A Drama of Women in the Villages of Spain," the work is a raw, socially conscious exploration of female confinement under patriarchal law. Lorca completed it just two months before his execution at the start of the Spanish Civil War. Plot Overview

The play begins following the death of Bernarda Alba's second husband, Antonio María Benavides . Bernarda, an authoritarian matriarch, imposes a strict eight-year period of mourning on her five daughters, effectively bricking up the house and forbidding them from contacting men. La Casa De Bernarda Alba Federico Garcia Lorca...