In a monologue, a woman describes the deaths of this object’s previous owners, such as a Spanish invader killed by a kettle-mender named Childerich. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this object. The discovery of a wig and the footprints of a club-footed person in Marthe’s garden lead Adam to nervously argue that the Devil was instead responsible for an incident involving this object.
ANSWER: the broken jug [or the broken pitcher; or Der zerbrochne Krug]
[10m] The Broken Jug is a play by this author. A pregnant noblewoman places a newspaper announcement to find the father of her child so that she can marry him in this author’s story “The Marquise of O.”
ANSWER: Heinrich von Kleist
[10e] A Kleist essay about theater involving these objects notes that “grace appears most purely” in these objects and “in God.” Carlo Collodi’s character Pinocchio is also one of these objects.
ANSWER: marionettes [or puppets] (The essay is “On the Marionette Theater.”)
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