| Yerma (meaning’Barren’) is one of three tragic plays about peasants and rural life that make up Lorca’s’rural trilogy’.It is possibly Lorca’s harshest play following a woman’s Herculeanstruggle against the curse of infertility. The woman’s barrennessbecomes a metaphor for her marriage in a traditional society thatdenies women sexual or social equality. Her desperate desire for achild drives her to commit a terrible crime at the end of the play.This Student Edition comes complete with a full introduction, plot synopsis,commentary on characters, context and themes, bibliography, chronology,and questions for study. |
