Question
This man starred as Lord Foppington in The Relapse, a sequel by John Vanbrugh to this author’s comedy Love’s Last Shift. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this author who was Poet Laureate from 1730-1757. This author replaced Lewis Theobald as the King of Dunces in Alexander Pope’s later revision of The Dunciad.
ANSWER: Colley Cibber (“call-e sibb-er”)
[10m] Cibber had a hit with his play The Non-Juror, which adapted this other play. Richard Wilbur kept the rhyming couplets in his translation of this play, which ends after an officer arrests the title character via a decree from the king.
ANSWER: Tartuffe (by Molière)
[10e] In his shortened adaptation of this Shakespearean history play, Cibber added a scene showing the Princes in the Tower being murdered, but he kept some lines like “my kingdom for a horse.”
ANSWER: Richard III
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Summary
| 2023 ILLIAC (Cornell) | 2023-10-21 | Y | 4 | 15.00 | 75% | 50% | 25% |
| 2023 ILLIAC (Mainsite) | 2023-10-21 | Y | 8 | 18.75 | 100% | 75% | 13% |