Blood Wedding

Perhaps it was the Bach cantatas and the flamenco music which Federico Garcia Lorca listened to while writing Bodas de Sangre (Blood Wedding) that inspired the beauty and darkness in the play. Maybe it was that single newspaper fragment which told the story of a runaway bride that unleashed a river of blood, humanity, and emotions (http://boppin.com/lorca/). It is clear that no matter what the inspiration may have been, Lorca was successful in bringing to life a list of mostly unnamed character and sharing the time period through words and images.
Blood Wedding, written in 1933, reveals Lorca’s concern with elemental psychological and social forces in the Spain of his day. It demonstrates the overwhelming power of erotic impulses in conflict with the restraints of civilization and social control. The play, although mostly poetic in nature, presents the reader with the pressures of society and the constant oppression of emotions. Furthermore, it is possible that Lorca was drawn...