Federico García Lorca (June 5, 1898 – August 19, 1936) was a Spanish poet and dramatist, also remembered as a painter, pianist, and composer. An emblematic member of the Generation of '27, he was killed by Nationalist partisans at the age of 38 at the beginning of the Spanish Civil War.

Biography

Poetry

El maleficio de la mariposa (The Butterfly's Evil Spell: written 1919-20, first production 1920)
Los títeres de Cachiporra (The Billy-Club Puppets: written 1922-5, first production 1937)
Mariana Pineda (written 1923-25, first production 1927)
La zapatera prodigiosa (The Shoemaker's Prodigious Wife: written 1926-30, first production 1930, revised 1933)
Amor de Don Perlimplín con Belisa en su jardín (Love of Don Perlimplín and Belisa in the Garden: written 1928, first production 1933)
El público (The Public: written 1929-30, first production 1972)
Así que pasen cinco años (When Five Years Pass: written 1931, first production 1945)
Retablillo de Don Cristóbal (The Puppet Play of Don Cristóbal: written 1931, first production 1935)
Bodas de sangre (Blood Wedding: written 1932, first production 1933)
Yerma (written 1934, first production 1934)
Doña Rosita la soltera (Doña Rosita the Spinster': written 1935, first production 1935)
Comedia sin título (Play Without a Title: written 1936, first production 1986)
La casa de Bernarda Alba (The House of Bernarda Alba: written 1936, first production 1945) Theatre

El paseo de Buster Keaton ("Buster Keaton goes for a stroll", 1928)
La doncella, el marinero y el estudiante ("The Maiden, the Sailor and the Student", 1928)
Quimera ("Dream", 1928) Short plays

Viaje a la luna ("Trip to the Moon", 1929) Works about Lorca