Editing Federico García Lorca (section)

==Censorship==
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[[Francisco Franco]]'s [[FET y de las JONS|regime]] placed a general ban on García Lorca's work, which was not rescinded until 1953. That year, a (censored) ''Obras completas'' (''Complete Works'') was released. Following this, ''Blood Wedding'', ''Yerma'' and ''The House of Bernarda Alba'' were successfully played on the main Spanish stages. ''Obras completas'' did not include his late heavily homoerotic ''Sonnets of Dark Love'', written in November 1935 and shared only with close friends. They were lost until 1983/4 when they were finally published in draft form. (No final manuscripts have ever been found.) It was only after Franco's death that García Lorca's life and death could be openly discussed in Spain. This was not only because of political censorship, but also because of the reluctance of the García Lorca family to allow the publication of unfinished poems and plays prior to the publication of a critical edition of his works.

South African Roman Catholic poet [[Roy Campbell (poet)|Roy Campbell]], who enthusiastically supported the Nationalists both during and after the Civil War, later produced acclaimed translations of Lorca's work. In his poem "The Martyrdom of F. Garcia Lorca", Campbell wrote,

<blockquote><poem>
Not only did he lose his life
By shots assassinated:
But with a hammer and a knife
Was after that—translated.<ref>Roy Campbell, ''Selected Poems'', [[Henry Regnery Company]], 1955. Page 283. "On the Martyrdom of F. Garcia Lorca."</ref></poem></blockquote>