A cherished erotic play by Federico Garc铆a Lorca, illustrated by a major Spanish artist. 聽 Painting, poetry, and music come together in Z贸bel Reads Lorca, as Fernando Z贸bel, a Harvard student who would become one of Spain鈥縮 most famous painters, translates and illustrates Federico Garc铆a Lorca鈥縮 haunting play about the wounds of love. 聽 The premiere of Amor de Don Perlimpl铆n con Belisa en su jard铆n, an 鈥渆rotic allelujia鈥? which Lorca once called his most cherished play, was shut down in 1928 by Spanish government censors who confiscated the manuscript and locked it away in the pornography section of a state archive. Lorca rewrote the work in New York, and an amateur theater group brought it to the Spanish stage a few years later. Since his death, the play has also been transformed into ballet and opera. 聽Z贸bel Reads Lorca presents Z贸bel鈥縮 previously unpublished translation and features contextual essays from several scholars. Art historian Felipe Pereda studies Lorca in the context of Z贸bel鈥縮 development as a painter, Luis Fern谩ndez Cifuentes describes the precarious and much-debated state of the humanities in Z贸bel鈥縮 Harvard and throughout the United States in the 1940s, and Christopher Maurer delves into musical and visual aspects of the play鈥縮 American productions. 聽