Doña Rosita la soltera

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Doña Rosita la soltera ('Doña Rosita the Spinster') is a play by the Spanish playwright Federico García Lorca. It was written in 1935, and first performed the same year.

“Doña Rosita la soltera” [Doña Rosita The Spinster] tells the story of Doña Rosita, a young woman who falls in love with a man that is called to South America to join his parents. He swears to return and Rosita waits until she learns he has already married someone else. García Lorca portrays what he himself called ‘the grotesque treatment of women’ in Spain. The action is set in Granada, Spain at three different years portraying the bourgeois life of the 1880’s and the modernization and the beginning World War I during the early 1900’s. Lorca draws parallels between Doña Rosita’s life and these historic periods beginning with the vitality of her youth, the attainment of maturity and finally the loss of all hope.