Question
Description acceptable. Along with bells ringing and vases being thrown, this sound is constantly heard offstage during the second act of Georges Feydeau’s A Flea in Her Ear. For 10 points each:
[10m] Describe this sound. At the end of another play, this sound can be heard offstage after a “hope inspires” a character to mutter “the miracle of miracles-?”, a line also translated as “the most wonderful thing of all…?”
ANSWER: slamming doors [or door slams; accept answers describing a door being shut loudly or closed loudly]
[10e] Nora tells Torvald that she “no longer believe[s] in miracles” before slamming the door at the end of this play.
ANSWER: A Doll’s House [or A Doll House; or Et dukkehjem] (by Henrik Ibsen)
[10h] A work by this author criticizes canvas stage doors for not being “capable of expressing the anger of an irate pater familias who… slams the door behind him.” This author called Rebecca West an “unconscious cannibal, who has devoured Mrs. Rosmer’s soul” in his essay “Psychic Murder (Apropos Rosmersholm).”
ANSWER: August Strindberg [or Johan August Strindberg] (The first work is the preface to Miss Julie.)
<Literature - European Literature - Drama>
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