Blood Wedding

Blood Wedding
Written byFederico García Lorca
CharactersBridegroom
Bridegroom's Mother
Bride
Bride's Father
Leonardo
Leonardo's Wife
Leonardo's Mother-in-law
Maid
Neighbour
Moon
Death
Three Woodcutters
Two Young Men
Girl
Three Girls
Little Girl
Three Guests
Woman
Neighbours
Date premiered1933
Original languageSpanish
GenreRural tragedy

Blood Wedding (Spanish: Bodas de sangre) is a tragedy by Spanish dramatist Federico García Lorca. It was written in 1932 and first performed at Teatro Beatriz in Madrid in March 1933, then later that year in Buenos Aires, Argentina.[1]

The play is set in rural Spain and according to some sources was inspired by real life events which took place in Almeria in the 1920s.[1] Theatre critics often group Blood Wedding with García Lorca's Yerma and The House of Bernarda Alba as the "rural trilogy". García Lorca's planned "trilogy of the Spanish earth" remained unfinished at the time of his death, as he did not include The House of Bernarda Alba in this group of works.[2]

  1. ^ a b La noticia del misterioso crimen que Lorca leyó en ABC
  2. ^ Maurer, Christopher. Three Plays by Federico García Lorca. Translated by Michael Dewell and Carmen Zapata. London: Penguin Books, 1992. ISBN 0-14-018383-3.