@inbook{10.7722/j.ctt9qdnfr.8, ISBN = {9781855661462}, URL = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7722/j.ctt9qdnfr.8}, abstract = {In April 1936, just three months before he left Madrid for Granada for the last time, García Lorca was interviewed by Felipe Morales for the journalLa Voz(OC VI: 728–33).¹ Asked about his theatre, the poet designated his ‘primeras comedias’, in seemingly unequivocal terms, as ‘irrepresentables’ and ‘imposibles’ (OC VI: 731). With the first Spanish professional productions ofAsí que pasen cinco años,El públicoandComedia sin títulotaking place in 1987 and 1989,² respectively, what García Lorca once considered quite impossible to produce has now triumphed on the stage of his native land.³ However, the epithet}, author = {PAUL McDERMID}, booktitle = {Love, Desire and Identity in the Theatre of Federico García Lorca}, edition = {NED - New edition}, pages = {101--141}, publisher = {Boydell and Brewer}, title = {El público: Struggling with Identity}, year = {2007} }