Garcia Lorca: Poet of the Anda

role in transforming the Spanish theatre of the twentieth century. In addition to his

original works for the theatres in Barcelona and Madrid, the traveling university theatre he

directed, La Baracca, brought classic Spanish dramas to audiences throughout rural Spain.

Before his execution by the Fascists in 1936, he had amassed a large body of work. His

last three plays established Lorca’s international reputation as a playwright.

Born in a small town near the city of Granada in Southern Spain in the Andalusian

Mountains, he was deeply influenced by the Gypsy and Arabic culture there. His father

was a well-to-do farmer, his mother a highly educated school teacher. From the beginning

it was she who nurtured his musical and poetic talents.(Honig 2) He left home for the

University of Granada at the age of sixteen to earn a degree in law. A mediocre student,

he was frustrated by subjects he did not immediately grasp. He cut many classes,

preferring instead to seek the company of literary men, write verse into the wee hours of

the morning, and play piano in night clubs for hours on end.(Stainton

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