well-made play - 2025 ACF Regionals

Question

Plays in this form produced conflict via the “quiproquo,” in which two characters would misinterpret the same situation in opposing ways. For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this formulaic 19th-century dramatic genre developed by Eugène Scribe (“oo-zhen skreeb”) and popularized by Victorien Sardou.

ANSWER: well-made play [or pièce bien faite]

[10e] George Bernard Shaw criticized the well-made play in an essay titled for the “quintessence” of this author, which laments that his play A Doll’s House may be acted as a “melodrama or farcical comedy.”

ANSWER: Henrik Ibsen [or Henrik Johan Ibsen; accept “The Quintessence of Ibsenism”]

[10m] An author with this surname adapted his didactic novel The Lady of the Camellias as a well-made play. Another author with this surname drew on his African ancestry in the novel Georges.

ANSWER: Dumas [accept Alexandre Dumas fils or Alexandre Dumas père]

<Purdue, European Literature>

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California	2025-02-01	Y	3	16.67	100%	33%	33%
Florida	2025-02-01	Y	3	10.00	67%	33%	0%
Great Lakes	2025-02-01	Y	6	16.67	100%	67%	0%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	2025-02-01	Y	6	18.33	100%	67%	17%
Midwest	2025-02-01	Y	6	18.33	100%	83%	0%
North	2025-02-01	Y	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%
Northeast	2025-02-01	Y	5	18.00	100%	80%	0%
Pacific Northwest	2025-02-01	Y	2	15.00	100%	50%	0%
South Central	2025-02-01	Y	2	10.00	100%	0%	0%
Southeast	2025-02-01	Y	4	12.50	100%	25%	0%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	2025-02-01	Y	9	18.89	100%	78%	11%
Upstate NY	2025-02-01	Y	3	10.00	100%	0%	0%

Data


Claremont A	UC Berkeley A	10	10	0	20
UCSD	Claremont B	0	10	0	10
UC Berkeley B	UCLA	0	10	10	20
Florida A	Florida B	0	10	10	20
Valencia A	UCF B	0	10	0	10
UCF C	Florida State A	0	0	0	0
Carnegie Mellon A	Kenyon	0	10	10	20
Michigan B	Carnegie Mellon B	0	10	10	20
Michigan C	Case Western A	0	10	10	20
Ohio State A	Case Western B	0	10	0	10
Ohio State B	Michigan A	0	10	10	20
Michigan D	Michigan State	0	10	0	10
UNC B	Liberty C	0	10	10	20
Liberty A	South Carolina	0	10	0	10
William & Mary	UNC C	0	10	10	20
Virginia Tech A	UNC D	0	10	10	20
Virginia A	Duke	10	10	10	30
Wake Forest	Liberty B	0	10	0	10
Chicago A	Illinois C	0	10	10	20
Indiana B	Chicago C	0	10	0	10
WashU A	Chicago D	0	10	10	20
WashU B	Illinois A	0	10	10	20
Indiana A	Chicago B	0	10	10	20
Missouri	Missoui S&T	0	10	10	20
Iowa State	Minnesota B	0	10	10	20
Winona State	Wisconsin A	0	10	0	10
Carleton	Wisconsin B	0	10	0	10
BU	Brown A	0	10	10	20
Dartmouth A	Tufts A	0	10	0	10
Harvard A	Harvard B	0	10	10	20
MIT A	Brandeis A	0	10	10	20
Brandeis B	UMass Boston	0	10	10	20
Alberta	UBC	0	10	0	10
UW A	UW B	0	10	10	20
ASU	Texas A	0	10	0	10
TAMU	Texas B	0	10	0	10
Georgia Tech B	Georgia Tech D	0	10	0	10
Louisville A	Georgia Tech A	0	10	10	20
Alabama A	Tennessee A	0	10	0	10
Vanderbilt A	Bruin A	0	10	0	10
Cornell B	Columbia B	10	10	10	30
Haverford A	George Washington B	0	10	10	20
Vassar A	John Jay College	0	10	10	20
Maryland A	Yale A	0	10	10	20
Rutgers A	Maryland B	0	10	10	20
NYU A	Johns Hopkins A	0	10	10	20
NYU B	Haverford B	0	10	0	10
Columbia C	Penn A	0	10	10	20
George Washington A	Penn B	0	10	0	10
Binghamton A	ESF A	0	10	0	10
Cornell C	Cornell D	0	10	0	10
RIT A	RIT B	0	10	0	10