Question
The Little Theatre movement reacted against this pervasive quality in Victorian theater, as typified by Augustin Daly’s Under the Gaslight and Dion Boucicault’s (“DYE-ahn BOO-sih-koh’s”) The Octoroon. For 10 points each:
[10e] Give this generic term for sensational plays. It originates from plays that used music to heighten exaggerated plots about stock heroes and villains.
ANSWER: melodramas [or melodramatic plays]
[10h] A Gilded Age champion of “real melodrama” with this first name wrote realistic comedies like The Truth. A villain with this name torments ex-prisoners at a purgatorial truck stop kitchen in a recent play by Lynn Nottage.
ANSWER: Clyde [accept Clyde’s; accept Clyde Fitch or William Clyde Fitch; prompt on William by asking “he typically went by what first name?”; prompt on Floyd’s by asking “the play was retitled for what name?”]
[10m] Richard Mansfield starred in Clyde Fitch’s 1890 play about this paradigmatic English dandy, who is called an “emperor among… insects” in William Hazlitt’s essay about his vacuous wit.
ANSWER: Beau Brummell [or George Bryan Brummell; accept “Brummelliana”]
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Summary
2024 ACF Nationals | 2024-04-21 | Y | 24 | 9.17 | 42% | 33% | 17% |
Data
Rutgers | Arizona State | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Michigan | Brown | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
North Carolina A | Chicago B | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
Chicago D | Chicago C | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
Claremont Colleges | Virginia | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Cornell A | Purdue | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Vanderbilt | Cornell B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
Florida | Duke | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Johns Hopkins | Georgia Tech | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
Harvard | South Carolina | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Toronto A | Illinois | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Columbia A | Indiana | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Kentucky | Minnesota B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
Berkeley A | Maryland | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
Berkeley B | McGill | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
NYU | Iowa State | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
North Carolina B | Truman State | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Yale A | Northwestern | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
Toronto B | Ottawa | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Chicago A | Stanford | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
Texas | WUSTL A | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Penn | WUSTL B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Minnesota A | Waterloo | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
Yale B | Columbia B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |