Question

In a 2017 production of this play, Tamsin Greig played a (15[1])gender-bent character who performs a burlesque striptease. A character (15[1])in this play (15[1])claims to “live by the church” because his house is by a church. A Noel Coward play about Garry Essendine takes its title from this play’s line “present mirth hath present laughter.” A (15[1])character in this play reads that “some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon ‘em” (15[1])in a letter that convinces him to smile incessantly and wear (*) cross-gartered yellow stockings. The rhetorical question “there shall be no more cakes and ale?” is posed in this play by Sir Toby Belch, who conspires to foil the steward Malvolio. This play opens with the line, “If music be the food of love, play on.” For 10 points, a shipwreck in Illyria begins what Shakespeare comedy about the twins Sebastian and Viola? ■END■

ANSWER: Twelfth Night [or Twelfth Night, or What You Will]
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Michael KohnDurhamCambridge A1015
Ben WatsonWarwickCambridge B1915
James CarrigyEdinburghBristol2215
Enoch YuenImperial ABirmingham5515
Oliver HargraveOxfordImperial B7515

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