Yerma
| By: | Federico Garcia Lorca |
| Publisher: | Bloomsbury UK |
| Print ISBN: | 9780713683264 |
| eText ISBN: | 9781408148099 |
| Edition: | 1 |
| Copyright: | 2007 |
| Format: | Reflowable |
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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 Herculean struggle against the curse of infertility. The woman's barrenness becomes a metaphor for her marriage in a traditional society that denies women sexual or social equality. Her desperate desire for a child drives her to commit a terrible crime at the end of the play.