The second act of a play opens with a group of these people singing and gossiping about the title character, whom they call “spoiled, lazy, and soft.” For 10 points each:
[10h] Name these people, six of whom sing “Like glowing jasmine, / you’re filled with laughter” and form a chorus in the play Yerma.
ANSWER: washerwomen [accept Six Washerwomen; accept descriptions like women who wash]
[10m] Yerma believes that this substance will turn to poison if a woman does not have children. This substance titles another play by the same author that ends with Leonardo and the Groom’s deaths in a forest.
ANSWER: blood [or sangre; accept Blood Wedding]
[10e] Along with his play The House of Bernarda Alba, Yerma and Blood Wedding comprise the “rural trilogy” of this Spanish playwright and member of the Generation of ‘27.
ANSWER: Federico García Lorca [or Federico del Sagrado Corazón de Jesús García Lorca]
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