One character in this play describes the moment of conceiving her child as like the sensation holding a live bird tight in your hand, running through your blood.
One character in this play describes the moment of conceiving her child as like the sensation holding a live bird tight in your hand, running through your blood. In this play's final act, a woman with a necklace of bells and a man with a bull's horn play the part of the devil and his wife in a dancing ceremony. Near the beginning of its second act, a bunch of gossipy women note that one sheep is missing from a passing flock, as they do their laundry by the river. Two nearly silent (*) sisters-in-law dressed in funereal black are asked to keep watch on this play's protagonist, but do not stop her from stealing away from her house at night to visit a conjurer named Dolores. This play ends with its protagonist yelling "I have killed my son!" after strangling to death her husband Juan, near the site of a fertility shrine. For 10 points, name this play, a part of the "Rural Trilogy" of Federico Garcia Lorca, whose title character bemoans her inability to have a child.
One character in this play describes the moment of conceiving her child as like the sensation holding a live bird tight in your hand, running through your blood.
Yerma