For 10 points each, answer the following about crossdressing in modern British theater:
[10e] In a historical Nicholas Wright play, John Shank prepares 14-year-old Stephen Hammerton for a role as this woman. By the time John Dryden reworked Shakespeare’s play about this woman and her Trojan lover Troilus, a woman was allowed to play her.
ANSWER: Cressida [or Criseida; or Cresseid; or Criseyde]
[10h] This playwright set Mother Clap’s Molly House in a meeting place in 19th-century England where gay men crossdressed. Mark, Robbie, and Gary are named after the members of the band Take That in a play by this author.
ANSWER: Mark Ravenhill (the play is Shopping and Fucking.)
[10m] Male and female characters swap clothing to throw off the police in a Joe Orton play titled for What [this type of person] Saw. In a novel, a person with this occupation gossips with Miss Kenton over some evening cocoa.
ANSWER: butler [accept What the Butler Saw] (the novel is Ishiguro's The Remains of the Day.)
<Darren Petrosino, British Literature>