This work ends with a suicide and the oppressive title figure yelling "Silence" at her four remaining daughters, including Angustias and Magdelena.
At one point in this play, two characters debate God's Law and listen to the song of the reapers out in the field. The First Act ends with an elderly person being locked up while yelling about love "by the shore of the sea!" It is prefaced by a note from the author identifying this work as a "photographic document" and opens with a servant reflecting on her thirty years of service to a household run with an iron fist. That character later discusses her first encounter with a man nicknamed "the Shortailed" in an effort to cheer up her mistresses. Completed two years after another work by the same author concerning motherhood, this work's final act sees the maid Poncia guess the truth about the youngest sister's doomed love affair with the fiance of her older sibling, Pepe el Romano. This work ends with a suicide and the oppressive title figure yelling "Silence" at her four remaining daughters, including Angustias and Magdelena. For 10 points, identify this tragedy subtitled "A Drama about Women in the Villages of Spain," a work by Frederico Garcia Lorca.
At one point in this play, two characters debate God's Law and listen to the song of the reapers out in the field.
The House of Bernarda Alba