The Public

He was a Spanish poet, playwright and prose writer assigned to the generation of 27. He was the most influential and popular poet in 20th century Spanish literature. He was assassinated by the rebels a month after the coup d’état at the start of the Spanish civil war. As for his theatrical work, Lorca used lyrical, mythical, and symbolic features, and went to both popular song and Calderonian excesses or to puppet theatre. In his theatre the visual is as important as the linguistic, and drama always predominates. Today Federico García Lorca is the most widely read Spanish poet of all time. 

The Public was written in 1930, but it was only released 56 years later. It is considered one of the most important plays of Spanish theatre of the 20th century.It is a Surrealist play, which is ambiguous as we move between hallucination and dramatic reality. It studies repressed homosexual desires and it defends the right to erotic freedom. The play falls into the genre of Lorca’s Impossible theatre with such plays as: Así que pasen cinco años and La Comedia sin título.