{"id":7835,"date":"2021-08-10T07:53:33","date_gmt":"2021-08-10T07:53:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.universolorca.com\/obra-literaria\/the-house-of-bernarda-alba\/"},"modified":"2021-10-20T12:22:46","modified_gmt":"2021-10-20T12:22:46","slug":"the-house-of-bernarda-alba","status":"publish","type":"obra_literaria","link":"https:\/\/www.universolorca.com\/en\/obra-literaria\/the-house-of-bernarda-alba\/","title":{"rendered":"The House of Bernarda Alba"},"content":{"rendered":"

The House of Bernarda Alba (La casa de Bernarda Alba). A drama of women in the villages of Spain<\/em> that begins with the funeral of Bernarda Alba’s second husband. After the parade of neighbors who have come to her house<\/a> to pay their condolences, Bernarda announces to her daughters (the youngest, 20 years old, and the oldest, 39 . All unmarried) an eight-year mourning<\/strong>. Only Angustias, the firstborn and the only daughter of her first husband (the only heiress, therefore), was to be engaged to Pepe el Romano<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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The House of Bernarda Alba. Margarita Xirgu’s Company. 1945. Photo: Gaspar\/National Theater Museum of Almagro.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Soon a silent battle begins between Angustias, Adela (who had become Romano’s lover) and Martirio for the young man, while they weave, in a suffocating heat, some clothes that none of them is sure to wear. When Bernarda becomes aware of her youngest daughter’s relationship with Pepe, an argument breaks out in which Adela confronts her mother with the truth, breaking her cane. Bernarda asks for a gun and goes out to shoot Pepe el Romano.<\/p>\n

After hearing the shot, Adela believes her lover is dead and hangs herself. At the end of the play, Bernarda swears that she will finish Pepe off, reveals that Adela, her youngest daughter, died a virgin to keep up appearances,<\/strong> and orders silence, as in the beginning of the play.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":7838,"template":"","genero_obra_literaria":[102],"class_list":["post-7835","obra_literaria","type-obra_literaria","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","genero_obra_literaria-theater"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.universolorca.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/obra_literaria\/7835"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.universolorca.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/obra_literaria"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.universolorca.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/obra_literaria"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.universolorca.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.universolorca.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"genero_obra_literaria","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.universolorca.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/genero_obra_literaria?post=7835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}