The Public (play)

The Public (play)

"The Public" ("El público"), also known as "The Audience", is an surrealist play by the twentieth-century Spanish dramatist Federico García Lorca. [Martínez Nadal (1974, 70-82).] It was written between 1929 and 1930, but remained unpublished until 1978 and did not receive its first professional theatrical production until 1986.Edwards (1994, xxiv)]

Works cited

* Edwards, Gwynne. 1994. Introduction. In "Plays: Three" by Federico García Lorca. London: Methuen. ISBN 0413652408. p.xi-xxxv.
* García Lorca, Federico. 1994. "The Public". In "Plays: Three". Trans. Henry Livings. London: Methuen. ISBN 0413652408. p.55-104.
* Martínez Nadal, Rafael. 1974. "Lorca's "The Public": A Study of his Unfinished Play ("El público") and of Love and Death in the Work of Federico García Lorca". London: Calder & Boyars. ISBN 0714527521.

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