Question
In this play, Lucetta tricks Blunt by opening a trapdoor under the bed he’s laying on, allowing her to take his money and clothes. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this play in which two sisters go disguised during Carnival in Naples while the licentious Captain Willmore toys with the courtesan Angellica Bianca.
ANSWER: The Rover [or The Banish’d Cavaliers] (by Aphra Behn)
[10h] Colonel Fainwell pretends to be invisible by hiding under a trapdoor to trick Periwinkle, one of Anne Lovely’s four guardians, in this author’s 1718 play A Bold Stroke for a Wife.
ANSWER: Susanna Centlivre [or Susanna Freeman; or Susanna Carroll]
[10e] A satirical caricature of Thomas Shadwell falls through a trapdoor at the end of Mac Flecknoe, a poem by this first Poet Laureate of England.
ANSWER: John Dryden
<Literature - British Literature - Drama>
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