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20 Cards in this Set
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acotaciones |
script/directions |
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utilería |
props |
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parlamentos |
lines of dialog |
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aparte |
character talks directly to the audience |
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vestuario |
wardrobe |
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escenagrafía |
set |
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unidad |
tiempo lugar |
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entremes |
short play between acts |
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auto sacramentales |
actos religiosas |
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autor de La casa de Bernada Alba |
Federico Garcia Lorca |
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autor de Del amor y otros demonios |
Gabriel Garcia Marquez |
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oldest daughter (39) The only daughter from Bernarda's first marriage. Her name translates roughly to "anguish." A sad and ugly woman, but the only daughter with a dowry, she is engaged to Pepe el Romano. |
angustias |
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2nd oldest (30) Bernarda's second-oldest daughter, thirty years old. A spiteful and bitter woman, though perhaps the daughter with the most realistic sense of what limitations a woman faces in their world. |
magdalena |
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3rd oldest (27) Bernarda's third-oldest daughter, twenty-seven years old. The most frightened and gossipy of the daughters, it is she who gives in most easily to Bernarda's demands and expectations. |
amelia |
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4th oldest (24) Bernarda's fourth-oldest daugher, twenty-four years old. Her names translates roughly to "suffering" and reflects her persistent depression. A hunchback, she was once engaged to a man, but Bernarda ruined it. |
martirio |
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youngest (20) The only daughter who willingly flaunts Bernarda's strictures and declares her true individuality. The tragic heroine of the play. |
adela |
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madre de bernarda |
maria josefa |
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Bernarda's head maid, arguably the woman who knows Bernarda best. At sixty years old, she is a voice of wisdom throughout the play, albeit a wisdom tinged with class resentment and hatred of Bernarda. |
La Poncia |
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A friend of Bernarda's, fifty years old. Highly religious and consumed with regret over having let her husband banish their daughter. |
Prudencia |
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sainete |
between 2nd and 3rd act |