The House of Bernarda Alba is a play by the Spanish playwright and poet Federico García Lorca. It is the last work that Lorca wrote in 1936 and was first presented in 1945. Along with Yerma and The Blood Wedding, it forms the trilogy of the Spanish countryside by the author.

The play describes events during the mourning period in a house in Andalusia, where the 60-year-old Bernarda Alba holds absolute control over her daughters: Agracia, Magdalena, Amelia, Martirio, and Adela. The household also includes Poncia, the housekeeper, and María Josefa, Bernarda's mother. No male character appears on stage in the play. Even Pepe Romano, the object of desire for Bernarda's daughters and the fiancé of Agustias, never appears.

The play focuses on issues of oppression, compromise, and passion, and the influence of men on women. Bernarda's tyranny over her daughters foreshadows the nature of Franco's fascist regime in Spain, shortly after Lorca's work concludes.

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