La casa de Bernarda Alba

Federico Garcia Lorca's 1945 drama is set in a small Spanish village. After her second husband's funeral, a tyrannical mother demands her five daughters go into mourning for eight years. The daughters struggle against this strict control, and meanwhile all five harbor a love for Pepe, the most handsome man in the village. Although the eldest daughter is engaged to be married to Pepe, the youngest one ends up his lover - a secret that ultimately ends with tragic consequences. Book jacket.

Paola Bianco (Ph. D. UNC, Chapel Hill) is Associate Professor of Spanish at Wilkes University. She has published books and articles on poetry, literature, Italian culture and Hispanic women writers. Antonio Sobejano-Moran (Ph.D. Michigan State University) is Professor of Spanish at SUNY Binghamton since 1986 and he has published extensively in the field of Spanish literature. He has served as AP table leader in Spanish and Latin American literature for ETS.