El Papel de la Mujer en el Teatro de Federico Garcia Lorca

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by  John Rey

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Theses : Honours Theses
1994
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John Rey
Edith Cowan University
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EL papel de la mujer en el
teatro de Federico Garcia
Lorca
by
John Rey
at
Edith Cowan University
This thesis is presented for an Honours Degree of
Bachelor of Arts at the School of Language, Literature
and Media Studies, Faculty of Arts.
November, 1994
USE OF THESIS

The Use of Thesis statement is not included in this version of the thesis.
Declaration
I certify that this thesis does not incorporate
without acknowledgement any material
previously submitted for a degree or diploma in
any institution of higher education; and that,
to the best of my ability and belief, it does
not contain any material previously published
or written by any other person except where
due reference is made in the text.
A mis padres e hija, Rebecca.
INDICE
Acknowledgements 1
Abstract 2
Introducci6n 3
Capftulo Primero: Mariana Pineda 11
Capitulo Segundo: Bodas de sangre 26
Capftulo Tercero: Yerma 46
Capftulo Cuarto: Dona Rosita la soltera 63
Capitulo Quinto: La casa de Bernarda Alba 79
Conclusi6n 101
Cronologia 112
Bibliografia 114
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Acknowledgements
I would like to thank, first and foremost, my supervisor,
Francisco Martinez, for guiding me through the maze of
academic research techniques and for helping me to develop
my writing style.
I am also grateful to Javier Albillos, for the unconditional
access he gave me to his extensive private library, an
invaluable aid for this study.
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ABSTRACT
Federico Garcfa Lorca is considered by many as the Spanish
playwright with the strongest and acutest social conscience
of the twentieth century in his country, especially
regarding the plight of Spanish women. In this thesis, his
fight for women's rights, his understanding of their
frustrations, feelings, sufferings, their social predicament
in an unchanging and anachronistic society will be explored
by focusing on Lorca's commitment to changing the social
status quo.
A link will be established between Lorca's work and the
influence that earlier playwrights had on him. Many Spanish
playwrights were among the first in Europe to spouse
Erasmus' ideas advocating the liberation of women. One thing
these dramatists believed in unanimously was a woman's
libertad de amar (freedom to love). Using his theatre as a
platform to fight social injustice against women, Lorca
became a thorn in the social conscience of the leaders of
his country, to the extent that his enemies, mainly the·
Guardia Civil and the Palange, marked him for death.
Federico Garcfa Lorca was assassinated on August 1936, at
the age of thirty-eight.
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El teatro es esa poes(a que se eleva
del libro y se convierte en humana
F. G. L.
INTRODUCCION
En lfnea con las "novelas de la gente" de Emile Erckmann y
Alexandre Chatrian que condenan la injusticia social, el
teatro de Federico Garcia Lorca ataca la sociedad espaftola,
poniendo el sufrimiento ffsico y psicol6gico de la mujer
...
bajo el microscopio para examinarlos minuciosamente. La idea
central en el teatro lorquiano es el tema de la frustraci6n
en la mujer y su conflicto con la sociedad. Este tema ya
habfa sido introducido en el teatro espaftol por otros
dramaturgos espaftoles desde tiempo inmemorial.
El humanista Erasmo de Rotterdam (1466-1536) ejerci6 gran
influencia para cambiar la actitud de la sociedad hacia la
mujer. Americo Castrol califica este ideal m~s humano de la
mujer de Erasmo como: "Un movimiento en favor de la
dignificaci6n de la mujer." Las ideas de Erasmo se
e'xtendieron por todos los cfrculos iluminados de Europa. En
el centro de este movimiento estaba Catalina de Arag6n, la
primera mujer de Enrique VIII de Inglaterra. Su madre,
Isabel la Cat6lica, se habfa preocupado para que Catalina y
sus hermanas fueran bien educadas, por lo que obtuvo los
servicios de dos humanistas italianos, Antonio y Alessandro
Geraldini. Catalina adquiri6 una gran cultura que sorprendi6
a Tom~s Moro e incluso al mismo Erasmo. Catalina pidi6 a