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Roles of this type include dignified, “verdant-clad” qīngyī (“ching-yee”), a specialty of the iconic performer Méi Lánfāng. For 10 points each:
[10e] Dàn roles in Chinese opera have what characteristic? Elizabethan acting troupes usually had adolescent boys play these roles.
ANSWER: female roles [accept equivalents such as women’s roles; accept cross-dressing roles, although this is no longer typically true in Chinese opera; reject “trouser roles”]
[10h] The costumes of dignified dàn roles such as qīngyī typically include these long accessories. Many Chinese opera traditions include difficult dances in which performers “flick” these accessories.
ANSWER: water sleeves [or shuǐxiù (“shway-shyoh”); prompt on sleeves]
[10m] One of Méi Lánfāng’s signature roles was as a monologuing, “drunken” one of these people named Yáng Yùhuán. In another classic opera, one of these people commits suicide with Xiàng Yǔ (“shyahng yu”) after Xiàng’s defeat by Liú Bāng.
ANSWER: concubine [or consort; accept The Drunken Concubine; accept Farewell, My Concubine; prompt on lady]
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