Talk:Federico García Lorca

Should main image be swapped for a more recent photo?

Should the main article image here be swapped for something more representative of Lorca in his later years? According to the listed dates, the current one was taken when he was only 16--more than 2 decades before the time of his assassination, much less his rise to prominency as a poet.

Current image could (perhaps) be relocated under section 1.1 (Early years).

Portrayal of women in theatre

Do Lorca's plays give women a bigger place in theatre?Vorbee (talk) 08:27, 4 July 2019 (UTC)

The article is not a place for original research or personal commentary. What refs do you have? Anna (talk) 10:47, 4 July 2019 (UTC)

ENGVAR

I see this article currently used both major variants of English spelling, which isn't ideal. Looking back, I see that in 2003 it was a fairly developed article with two instances of "theatre", marking it as British English. I submit that per MOS:RETAIN, it should continue in that variant unless there is good reason to change it. Any thoughts? John (talk) 22:44, 19 September 2022 (UTC)

More clarity regarding assassination...

Reading the article, it states as a matter of certain fact that he was indeed murdered in 1936. But it also states that his remains have never been recovered, despite multiple attempts to locate and identify them....So this then begs the question of how exactly it's known with certainty that he was actually killed in 1936....Was his murder photographed or filmed with a motion picture camera, or were there simply reports (which could be false) that he'd been killed?...The article doesn't explain any of this, so I think more clarity is definitely needed!

Of course with him having been born in 1898, he's almost certainly dead by now, but just going by what's written in the article, there seems to be a possibility that he wasn't really killed in 1936, but instead escaped to Paris or Mexico or Argentina or wherever, assumed a new identity, and lived for many years. -2003:CA:8748:312:453F:BE7:6666:23CF (talk) 13:00, 23 October 2022 (UTC)

For decades, he has been universally regarded as murdered in 1936.

There was never any alternative conspiracy theory.

142.205.202.71 (talk) 16:35, 7 December 2022 (UTC)

Just Lorca

In English and in Spanish, it is usual to refer to him as Lorca, rather than García Lorca.

Cf. Picasso. 142.205.202.71 (talk) 16:31, 7 December 2022 (UTC)

Picasso's surname was "Ruiz y Picasso", and in the ordinary course of events that would have been shortened to Ruiz, not to Picasso, as Ruiz was his father's surname and Picasso his mother's. But Picasso himself chose to use his mother's name professionally, and the world followed suit.

In Lorca's case, the fact that we know him as Lorca is down to anglophone ignorance of how Spanish surnames work. Which is why books by Carlos Ruiz Zafon in bookshops are usually sorted inappropriately under Z rather than R. -- Jack of Oz ^{[pleasantries]} 21:00, 7 December 2022 (UTC)