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THE LIFE, TIMES AND WORKS OF FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA:
A CHRONOLOGY OF EVENTS IV: 1933 & 1934
1933
LIFE | TIMES | WORKS |
Pictures in central column: 1. La Barraca 1933; 2. With Josefina Díaz; 3. With Lola Membrives. In the right ccolumn: severed heads of Lorca and Neruda (see Life 20 Nov) | January: Republican forces, under the orders of Captain Manuel Rojas Feigespán, put down a revolt of anarchist land labourers at Casas Viejas. | |
30 January: Hitler is named Chancellor of Germany. | ||
February: Oda al rey de Harlem published in Los cuatro vientos (Madrid). | ||
5 April: first performance of El amor de Don Perlimplín con Belisa en su jardín by Pura Ucelay’s Club Teatral Anfistora. | ||
Holy Week: With La Barraca Valladolid, Zamora, Salamanca. | ||
Spring: Meets the Galician writer Eduardo Blanco-Amor. | ||
8 May: first performance of Bodas de Sangre in Madrid by Josefina Diaz’s theatre company. | ||
May: Signs a petition condemning Hitler. | ||
May: Gets to know Rafael Rodríguez Rapún, who works as secretary for La Barraca. | ||
31 May: Bodas de sangre opens in Barcelona. | ||
La Barraca puts on Fuenteovejuna by Lope de Vega in Valencia. (Lorca’s version omits the final scene with the favourable arbitration of the Catholic Monarchs in favour of the village people). | ||
June: fragments of El público appear in los cuatro vientos. | ||
July: Bodas de sangre performed by Lola Membrives in Buenos Aires is tremendously successful. | ||
15 August: Oda a Walt Whitman published in Mexico. | ||
29 September: Embarks in Barcelona for Buenos Aires, Argentina. | ||
29 September-13 October: On his way to Argentina works on Yerma and a new talk called Juego y teoría del duende. | ||
13 October - April 1934: In Buenos Aires. Performances of Bodas de Sangre, a new version of La Zapatera Prodigiosa, Mariana Pineda, and Lope De Vega’s La Dama Boba under Lorca’s direction, and the first performance of Retablillo de don Cristóbal y doña Rosita. Talks on Juego y teoría del duende, Cómo canta una ciudad de Noviembre a Noviembre, Poeta en Nueva York, and El canto jondo. | ||
29 October: The Spanish Falange is founded. | ||
19 November: Electoral victory of right-wing CEDA, which doesn’t participate in centre-right government. | ||
20 November: Gives talk on Rubén Darío “al alimón” (in joint delivery) with Pablo Neruda. | ||
1 December: First performance of the new version for Lola Membrives of La Zapatera with popular music and dance and sets by Manuel Fontanals. | ||
22 December: In Rosario with ex-fiancé of cousin Matilde Picossi |
1934
LIFE | TIMES | WORKS |
30 January: To spend two weeks in Montevideo, Uruguay, - picture right - where he visits the grave of his friend, the painter Rafael Pérez Barradas. | ||
4 March: First performance of La dama boba | ||
26 March: Retablillo de don Cristóbal y doña Rosita performed in the foyer of the Avenida theatre. | ||
27 March: Leaves Buenos Aires for Spain, arriving in Barcelona on 11 April. | ||
Spring: Eduardo Blanco-Amor visits him at the Huerta de San Vicente. | ||
July: In the Huerta de San Vicente, Granada, he finishes Yerma and El diván del Tamarit. | ||
13 August: Ignacio Sánchez Mejías (pictured below) dies in hospital after having been gored in the Manzanares bullring on 11th August. | ||
August: Lorca is at the International Summer University of Santander with La Barraca. | ||
1 October: Gil-Robles’ CEDA withdraws its support of right-wing government. Government cedes three key ministerial posts to CEDA. | ||
4 October: General strike. Insurrection of miners in Asturias, who take control of Oviedo. | ||
7 October: José Antonio Primo de Rivera, son of ex-dictator, pictured right, calls for “the sacred unity of Spain”, following the declaration of independence in Catalonia. | ||
15 October: Oviedo insurrection crushed. Proclamation of independent republic in Catalonia “within the Federal Republic of Spain”: quashed within ten hours. | ||
November: First reading of Llanto por Ignacio Sánchez Mejías in Carlos Morla Lynch’s house in Madrid. Has also started to write Doña rosita la soltera. | ||
29 December: Opening night of Yerma in Madrid. |
