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The oppressive heat of the setting of this play is mentioned in a scene where a character angrily discards a fan with red and green flowers. While holding a lamb like a baby, a senile character in this play declares her intent to get married by the seashore. A character in this play claims to be playing a joke when a photograph of a man is found hidden in her bed. This play’s second act concludes as a woman is beaten to death offstage for killing the baby she conceived out of wedlock. The male suitor Pepe el Romano (10[2])never appears onstage in this play, whose cast only has female characters. This play ends with the title character demanding silence after learning that Adela has hanged herself. (10[1])For 10 points, the title matriarch oppresses her daughters in what play by Federico García Lorca? (10[1])■END■

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