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Yerma ('Barren') is a play by the Spanish playwright and poet Federico García Lorca. It was written in 1934, and first performed the same year.

The play tells the story of a childless woman living in rural Spain. Her desperate desire for motherhood becomes an obsession that eventually drives her to commit a horrific crime. This desperation is produced by the social mores of her culture, and the work functions as a critique of those mores.

It is one of the plays that form Lorca's famous 'rural trilogy' of tragedies, the others being Bodas de sangre ('Blood Wedding') and La casa de Bernarda Alba ('The House of Bernarda Alba').

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 '''''Yerma''''' ('Barren') is a [[play]] by the [[Spain|Spanish]] [[playwright]] and poet [[Federico García Lorca]]. It was written in [[1934]], and first performed the same year.
-The play tells the story of a childless woman living in rural Spain. Her desperation for children children becomes an obsession that eventually drives her to commit a horrific crime. This desperation is produced by the social mores of her culture, and the work functions as a critique of those mores.
+The play tells the story of a childless woman living in rural Spain. Her desperate desire for motherhood becomes an obsession that eventually drives her to commit a horrific crime. This desperation is produced by the social mores of her culture, and the work functions as a critique of those mores.
 It is one of the plays that form Lorca's famous 'rural trilogy' of tragedies, the others being ''[[Bodas de sangre]]'' ('Blood Wedding') and ''[[La casa de Bernarda Alba]]'' ('The House of Bernarda Alba').