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A wheelchair-bound woman vows to jump out of a window in the prologue of a play by this author, in which a dictator forces Skip L. Cheeseboro to make a TV special about a crucifixion. The psychoanalyst Leduc rallies prisoners in a play by this author set in 1940s France. This author of Resurrection Blues wrote a play in which characters who live in Red Hook learn to “settle for half.” Beatrice says her husband can (*) “never have” his niece Catherine in a play by this author in which Marco kills a longshoreman; Alfieri narrates that play centered on Eddie Carbone. (10[1])Anne Deever gives Kate a letter revealing the suicide of a World War II pilot in a play by this author that ends with Joe Keller’s death. For 10 points, name this playwright of A View From the Bridge and All My Sons. ■END■

ANSWER: Arthur Miller [or Arthur Asher Miller]
<Noah Sheidlower, American Literature>
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Henry AtkinsLibrary of Babel School of Continuing StudiesToronto Weary10010

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2023 Penn Bowl (Harvard)10/21/2023Y1100%0%0%121.00
2023 Penn Bowl (Mainsite)10/21/2023Y1100%100%0%68.00
2023 Penn Bowl @ Waterloo10/28/2023Y1100%0%0%100.00
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