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Jan (“yawn”) Kott’s comparison of this play to Beckett’s Endgame inspired a production of this play in which the house-lights come up while servants ignore a character with a rag over his head who is trying to leave the stage. The Prince of Paphlagonia in Sir Philip Sidney’s Arcadia inspired a character in this play who was played by Alan Webb in Peter Brook’s 1962 production and whose wounds are treated (-5[1])with a mixture of flax and egg whites. A man in this play is asked “where is thy lustre now?” by a character who says “out, vile jelly!” (10[7])while (10[2])that (10[1])man’s (10[3])“corky arms” (-5[1])are bound. (10[2])Hoping to jump off a cliff to his death, (10[1])a man in this play is led to Dover by his son, (10[1])whose (10[1])voice he fails to recognize. For 10 points, the blinding of Gloucester (10[1])(“gloster”) takes place in what Shakespeare (10[1])play (10[1])whose title (10[1])character exiles his daughter Cordelia? (10[1])■END■ (10[1])

ANSWER: King Lear
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