Things were really clicking for me, as I was thinking about the Lorca archive. Only two of Lorca's plays were published in book form during his life time. Several were not even brought to the stage. There are also incomplete works. The sonnets, the suites, were not published until MUCH later. So Lorca's work is like an iceberg, only gradually appearing in its fullness. We are still awaiting Melissa Dinverno's edition of the Suites.
Now, Lorca scholarship is really excellent, when before it tended to be mediocre or uneven (or sometimes just bad). This is a gradual evolution, and could not happen in a few years.
To think, then, that with only two plays in print, Lorca was unknown as a playwright except for the people who happen to have been to his plays in person. He was not unknown, but famous: what I mean is that his work was not particularly accessible. Only someone who had seen Yerma would have first hand knowledge of it.
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