Answer the following about European dramas’ shifting approaches to abortion. For 10 points each:
[10e] The cook Christine brews a tonic meant to terminate the pug Diane’s pregnancy in this August Strindberg play, whose title character’s canary gets beheaded by her valet Jean.
ANSWER: Miss Julie [or Fröken Julie]
[10m] The teenage Melchior believes Wendla (“VEHND-lah”) died of anemia until the Masked Man reveals that she died from a botched abortion in this author’s play Spring Awakening.
ANSWER: Frank Wedekind
[10h] To voice his support for abortion referendums, this author wrote a play titled for one of his country’s politicians Kidnapped. A cardinal tells 100,000 orphans that a nun specializes in abortions in this author’s satire The Pope and the Witch.
ANSWER: Dario Fo (the first play is Fanfani Rapito, or Fanfani Kidnapped)
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