The Experience of Colour in Lorca's Theatre

Jade Boyd

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Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Cultures 54

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13 September 2022  •  136pp

ISBN: 978-1-839540-70-7 (hardback)  •  RRP £85, $115, €99

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Federico Garcia Lorca’s (1898-1936) powerful and experimental colour-work is a critically undernourished aspect of his craft, particularly in terms of colour’s psychological, bodily and material agency. Breaking away from scholarly preoccupations with Lorca’s sexuality, with the division of his work along temporal and stylistic lines, and with colour symbolism, Jade Boyd’s readings of Lorca’s ten full-length completed plays (1920-1936) examine how his colour-work forms part of a sustained experimentation with his visceral and intersensory ‘theatre of poetry’. Drawing on theoretical engagement with colour, in the visual arts, in material culture, in literary criticism and in cultural studies, her study opens up mutually beneficial perspectives on colour for readers across Colour Studies, Modern Language Studies, Theatre Studies, and Medical Humanities.

Jade Boyd is a graduate of the University of Bristol and works at Oxford University Press.

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  • ‘Boyd is sensitive to what is left out as well as what is explicit. She thus underlines the absence in this tragedy of stage directions regarding lighting. She also reads ‘verbal colour’ into objects, food and animals, so the mention of frogs, chocolate, earth, fire and goldfinches becomes part of an imagined canvas of images, sometimes as potent as what we can see on stage.’ — John London, Bulletin of Spanish Studies 100.6, 2023, 930-32 (full text online)

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Boyd, Jade, The Experience of Colour in Lorca's Theatre, Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Cultures, 54 (Legenda, 2022)

First footnote reference: 35 Jade Boyd, The Experience of Colour in Lorca's Theatre, Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Cultures, 54 (Legenda, 2022), p. 21.

Subsequent footnote reference: 37 Boyd, p. 47.

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Boyd, Jade. 2022. The Experience of Colour in Lorca's Theatre, Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Cultures, 54 (Legenda)

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