Blood Wedding

• Genre: Fiction; historical play
• Originally Published: 1932
• Reading Level/Interest: College/Adult
• Structure/Length: 3 acts; approx. 80 pages; approx. 1 hour, 36 minutes on audio
• Protagonist and Central Conflict: A Bridegroom, his Bride, and Leonardo form a love triangle, which the community will not tolerate. When the Bride and Leonardo run away together on her wedding day, Death and the Bridegroom chase them, leading to tragedy.
• Potential Sensitivity Issues: Death

Federico García Lorca, Author

• Bio: Born in 1898 in a small town in Spain; died in 1936; educated at Columbia University and University of Grenada; wrote poems and plays; created and exhibited visual art; was a member of artists’ group Generación del 27; was friends with Salvador Dalí and influenced by Surrealism; traveled to Cuba and New York; worked as director; co-founded traveling theater company La Barraca; was assassinated during the Spanish Civil War; Blood Wedding adapted for film, opera, radio, television
• Other Works: The Butterfly’s Evil Spell (1920); Libro de Poemas (1921); Yerma (1934); The House of Bernarda Alba (1936)                

CENTRAL THEMES connected and noted throughout this Teaching Unit:

• The Incompatibility of Desire and the Social Order
• Women as Casualties
• Fate and the Tragic Cost of Honor

STUDY OBJECTIVES: In accomplishing the components of this Unit, students will: