In a play subtitled for one of these events, the Abbess of X leads an order of assassin nuns who poisoned Cromwell. Dogwater helps the author of Hydriotaphia accumulate capital in that Tony Kushner farce about one of these events involving Thomas Browne. A married couple read an encyclopedia entry on one of these events caused by a Spanish Communist in a play whose scenes end with that event followed by a bell ringing. In a play titled for an event of this kind, a man who says he doesn’t “have a thing in the ground” uses a flashlight to plant his garden, and imagines his brother saying “the jungle is dark but full of diamonds.” These events title a David Ives play about Leon Trotsky and a play permeated by flute music in which a man intentionally crashes his car to help his son Biff. For 10 points, what kind of event titles Arthur Miller’s play about Willy Loman? ■END■
ANSWER: death [accept Death of a Salesman; accept Variations on the Death of Leon Trotsky; accept Hydriotaphia, or the Death of Doctor Browne; accept assassination or murder after “encyclopedia” is read]
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