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Doña Rosita the Spinster

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in 1931). Doña Rosita is a young woman who falls in love with a man who is called to South America to join his parents. He swears to return and Rosita waits, but learns that he has married someone else. The action is set in Granada, Spain in three different years, portraying the
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and beginning of World War I of the early 1900s. Lorca draws parallels between Doña Rosita's life and these historic periods, beginning with the vitality of her youth, the attainment of maturity, and finally the loss of all hope.
60:. It is subtitled "or The Language of the Flowers" and described as "a poem of 1900 Granada, divided into various gardens, with scenes of song and dance". It was written in 1935 and first performed in the same year. 240: 190: 17: 63:"The theme of the play", suggests Federico García Lorca, "is the passage of time" (which Lorca had developed in a different form in his 374: 355: 183: 261: 233: 130: 115: 176: 348: 212: 384: 72: 329: 296: 389: 48: 341: 200: 57: 219: 226: 136:
Stainton, Leslie. Lorca: a Dream of Life. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1999. 393–397.
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The key moment in the play occurs when a young relative addresses Rosita as
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The Love of Don Perlimplín and Belisa in the Garden
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Index

The Language of Flowers (Lorca)
Spanish
period play
20th-century
Spanish
dramatist
Federico García Lorca
experimental
surrealist
When Five Years Pass
bourgeois
modernization
ISBN
0-14-018125-3
ISBN
0-14-018125-3
v
t
e
Federico García Lorca
The Butterfly's Evil Spell
The Billy-Club Puppets
Mariana Pineda
The Shoemaker's Prodigious Wife
The Love of Don Perlimplín and Belisa in the Garden
The Public
When Five Years Pass
The Puppet Play of Don Cristóbal
Blood Wedding
Yerma

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