Pedro Calderón de la Barca - 2024 ARCADIA

Question

The protagonist of a play by this author becomes overwhelmed with rage after realizing that his wife Serafina is the model for Deianira in his painting of Hercules. For 10 points each:

[10m] Name this playwright whose “honor plays” all end with men killing their wives. This author’s most famous play ends with the protagonist defying a prophecy by sparing his father Basilio.

ANSWER: Pedro Calderón de la Barca

[10e] Don Gutierre bleeds his wife Mencia to death in a Calderón honor play titled for a man with this profession. Argan continually requests for these people and desires to become one of them in Molière’s play The Hypochondriac.

ANSWER: doctors [or médicos or médecins; accept physicians or surgeons]

[10h] This Calderón play ends less violently, as the dishonored Isabella is allowed to become a nun. In this play, Pedro Crespo gains the title post after hanging the soldier Don Alvaro.

ANSWER: The Mayor of Zalamea [or El alcalde de Zalamea]

<HG, European Literature>

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Summary


2024 ARCADIA at BU	2024-12-06	Y	2	15.00	100%	0%	50%
2024 ARCADIA at Duke	2024-12-06	Y	2	20.00	100%	50%	50%
2024 ARCADIA at Missouri S&T	2024-12-06	Y	2	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2024 ARCADIA Online	2025-05-17	Y	5	18.00	100%	60%	20%
2024 ARCADIA at Penn State	2024-12-06	Y	1	30.00	100%	100%	100%
2024 ARCADIA at Florida Tech	2024-12-06	Y	1	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley	2024-12-06	Y	2	20.00	100%	50%	50%
2024 ARCADIA at Waterloo	2024-11-09	Y	5	14.00	100%	40%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at GT	2024-12-06	Y	3	13.33	100%	0%	33%
2024 ARCADIA at Illinois	2024-11-09	Y	3	23.33	100%	100%	33%
2024 ARCADIA at Warwick	2024-12-06	Y	4	12.50	100%	25%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at Claremont	2024-11-02	Y	3	16.67	100%	33%	33%

Data


Harvard	Bowdoin B	0	10	0	10
Amherst	Yale	0	10	10	20
Virginia Tech A	North Carolina A	10	10	10	30
Virginia Tech C	Virginia Tech B	0	10	0	10
Truman	Missouri	0	10	0	10
Squidward Community College	WashU	0	10	0	10
Toyota Tundra Turbos — Twisting Truths - Tackling Trivia - Taming Titans	ASU->Stanford->ASU pipeline	10	10	0	20
Paddington in Peru (2024)	In the Mood for Buzz	10	10	0	20
she limp on my waltz till i feel pathetique	The cult of SGA	0	10	0	10
Social credit go vroom	bingy academy	0	10	0	10
Madmen and Specialists	Old and Young	10	10	10	30
Pitt	Penn State	10	10	10	30
UF A	UF B	0	10	0	10
Berkeley B	Berkeley Past	10	10	10	30
Stanford	Berkeley A	0	10	0	10
McMaster ApocolocyntosisBidii	Carleton A	0	10	0	10
Toronto Chestnut Rice and Kamehameha	Ottawa Absolomabsolomabsolom	0	10	0	10
Toronto A	McGill A	10	10	0	20
Waterloo Aspidistra	Toronto B	10	10	0	20
Waterloo Cloze	Toronto Disband the Club 2k24	0	10	0	10
Georgia Tech A	Georgia Tech C	0	10	10	20
Georgia Tech D	Lambert	0	10	0	10
Milton	Johns Creek	0	10	0	10
Chicago A	Chicago B	10	10	0	20
Illinois Blue	Illinois Orange	10	10	10	30
Purdue A	Purdue B	10	10	0	20
Imperial A	Cambridge A	0	10	0	10
LSE B	Cambridge B	0	10	0	10
LSE A	Warwick A	10	10	0	20
Warwick B	Warwick C	0	10	0	10
ALCU	Anderson et al.	0	10	0	10
U[C]SD	Claremont	0	10	0	10
SGV Ventures	Jason et al.	10	10	10	30