Prof Gwynne Edwards

Career: lectr in Spanish Univ of Liverpool 1962-67; Dept of Euro Languages Univ of Wales Aberystwyth: lectr 1967-73, sr lectr 1973-80, reader 1980-83, prof 1983-2005, head of dept 1984-87, emeritus prof 2005-; Theatre Productions Lorca's Blood Wedding 1987, 1992, 2001 and 2004, Lorca's Women 1987-88, Mario Vargas Llosa's La Chunga 1988, Lorca's Dona Rosita 1989 and 2004, Lorca's When Five Years Pass 1989 (Scotsman Fringe First) and 2006, Lorca's The Shoemaker's Wonderful Wife 1990 and 1991, Carlos Muñiz's The Ink-Well 1990, Lope de Vega's Punishment Without Revenge 1991, Calderón's Three Judgements in One 1991, Life is a Dream 1992, Egon Wolff's Paper Flowers 1993 and 2003, José Triana's Medea in the Mirror 1996, Calderón's The Surgeon of Honour 1998, Sophocles' Antigone 1998, Poet in New York 1998, Francisco Ors' Contradance 1999, Garcia Márquez's Diatribe of Love 2001 and 2008, Puccini's Edgar 2001, Lorca's Mariana Pineda 2002 and 2006, Lorca's The House of Bernarda Alba 2003 and 2009, Dylan Thomas in America 2003-09 (adaptation), Dylan Thomas in London 2006-07 (adaptation), Three Dylan Thomas Short Stories 2008 (adaptations), Dylan and Caitlin 2008 (opera), Burton 2009-11, Dylan Thomas: the Clown in the Moon 2011, Cut My Shadow (three Larca poems set to music by Jonathan Dove) 2011

Books and Publications: The Prison and the Labyrinth: Studies in Calderonian Tragedy (1978), Lorca: The Theatre Beneath the Sand (1980), The Discreet Art of Luis Bunuel (1982), Dramatists in Perspective: Spanish Theatre in the Twentieth Century (1985), Lorca: Three Plays (1987), Lorca Plays: Two (1990), Calderón Plays: One (1991), Indecent Exposures: Buñuel, Saura, Erice, Almodóvar (1994), Lorca Plays: Three (1994), Burning the Curtain: Four Revolutionary Spanish Plays (1995), Lorca's Blood Wedding, student edn (1997), The House of Bernarda Alba, student edn (1998), Lope de Vega, Three Major Plays (1999), Flamenco (2000), Almodóvar: Labyrinths of Passion (2001), Lorca: Living in the Theatre (2003), Contemporary South American Plays (2004), Three Spanish Golden Age Plays (2005), A Companion to Luis Buñuel (2005), Lorca's Yerma (2007), Lorca's Doña Rosita the Spinster (2008), A Cultural Journey Through Andalusia (2009), Lorca, Bunuel and Dali: Forbidden Pleasures, Connected Lives (2009)