A character from this play says, “I am not wringing my hands. I'm drying my nails” and criticizes the use of the phrase “the bloat king” in Margaret Atwood’s story “Gertrude Talks Back.” For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this play, which inspired a story where the narrator refers to Shakespeare as Master Chackpaw. A jester’s influence on this play’s title Danish prince is imagined in the story “Yorick.”
ANSWER: Hamlet [or The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark]
[10m] This author’s story “Yorick” is included his short fiction in the collection East, West. Haroun explores a “sea of stories” in a children’s book by this author.
ANSWER: Salman Rushdie [or Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie]
[10h] Rushdie heavily alludes to this work in Haroun and the Sea of Stories, including with a houseboat named in reference to it. In a 2015 novel featuring a princess who controls lightning, Rushdie set this work in New York City.
ANSWER: One Thousand and One Nights [or The Arabian Nights or The One Thousand and One Arabian Nights or The Arabian Nights’ Entertainment or Alf Laylah wa-Laylah; accept “The Arabian Nights Plus One”] (The Rushdie novel is Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights.)
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