Federico García Lorca: A Study of His Plays and Poetry as They Reflect the Struggle between the Traditional and the contemporary in Early Twentieth Century Andalusian Culture

Abstract

My interest in García Lorca began with an appreciation of his poetry which grew as I visited and learned about his Andalusia and further heightened as I read his dramas. This paper has afforded me many trying moments, as I battled with some ridiculously inferior translations (which taught me why Lorca has never achieved the same measure of popularity outside of Spanish-speaking countries as he has within them) and a growing wealth of information, much of which was interesting but irrelevant to my topic.