Biography of Gwynne Edwards

GWYNNE EDWARDS is a specialist in Spanish theatre and cinema, until recently Professor of Spanish at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth. His books include: Lorca: The Theatre Beneath the Sand; Lorca: Living in the Theatre; Dramatists in Perspective: Spanish Theatre in the Twentieth Century; The Discreet Art of Luis Buñuel; A Companion to Luis Buñuel; and Almodóvar: Labyrinths of Passion. He has also translated and adapted more than forty plays from Spanish, French and Italian, many of which have been staged at major theatres in Britain and the United States. He has published three collections of Lorca plays with Methuen Drama, together with student editions of Blood Wedding and The House of Bernarda Alba, and also collections of seventeenth-century Spanish and contemporary Spanish-American plays. Other recent works include two plays adapted from the correspondence and prose writings of Dylan Thomas.