Doa Rosita the Spinster

"Spain's most celebrated dramatist, Federico Garcia Lorca was murdered by Nationalist sympathisers at the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War. In Dona Rosita the Spinster, set in Granada around 1900, he paints a sympathetic picture of a young girl as she waits in vain for her fiance to return and her hopes of marriage fade. The fate of Rosita, symbolised by the rosa mutabilis, which pales from red to pink to white in the course of a day, appears the more poignant as Lorca casts a satirical eye at the middle-class society of Granada by which she is surrounded. First performed in 1935, Dona Rosita was greeted as one of Lorca's finest achievements." "This edition contains parallel English and Spanish texts, in addition to the commentary and notes."--BOOK JACKET.Foreman, M. is the author of 'Doa Rosita the Spinster', published 2009 under ISBN 9781408105054 and ISBN 1408105055.