Question
After the work of Ernest Fenollosa introduced him to a foreign genre of theater, this author wrote a play that begins with musicians evoking a place that “the salt sea wind has swept bare.” For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this writer whose 1916 play At the Hawk’s Well was heavily influenced by Japanese Noh dramas.
ANSWER: William Butler Yeats
[10e] Yeats was introduced to Fenollosa and the Noh drama through this Modernist poet of the Cantos and the haiku-like “In a Station of the Metro.”
ANSWER: Ezra Pound [or Ezra Weston Loomis Pound]
[10h] A “razor-keen” katana given to Yeats by Junzo Sato partly inspired a poem in the form of a dialogue between these two concepts. The second of these two concepts defiantly asserts “a charter to commit the crime once more.”
ANSWER: self and soul [or “A Dialogue of Self and Soul”]
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Summary
| 2023 BHSU @ Berkeley | 03/18/2023 | Y | 3 | 16.67 | 100% | 67% | 0% |
| 2023 BHSU @ Maryland | 03/11/2023 | Y | 3 | 13.33 | 100% | 33% | 0% |
| 2023 BHSU @ Northwestern | 02/25/2023 | Y | 6 | 20.00 | 100% | 83% | 17% |
| 2023 BHSU Online | 04/15/2023 | Y | 4 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
| 2023 BHSU @ Sheffield | 04/15/2023 | Y | 2 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
| 2023 BHSU @ Waterloo | 04/15/2023 | Y | 3 | 13.33 | 100% | 0% | 33% |
| 2023 BHSU @ Yale | 04/08/2023 | Y | 3 | 13.33 | 0% | 100% | 33% |
| 2023 BHSU @ Yale | 04/08/2023 | Y | 3 | 16.67 | 100% | 67% | 0% |
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| Maryland B+ | Maryland A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
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