Blood wedding: Concerned with love that cannot become marriage among primitive hill people of Castile, this is a play of the workings of tremendous passions and tribal ritual toward an inescapable tragic end. Yerma : Frustrated motherhood. The house of Bernarda Alba: Tells of the repression of five daughters by a domineering mother, of how their natural spirits circumvent her but bring violence and death.
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