Question
For 10 points each, answer the following about crossdressing in modern British theater:
[10e] In a historical Nicholas Wright play, John Shank prepares 14-year-old Stephen Hammerton for a role as this woman. By the time John Dryden reworked Shakespeare’s play about this woman and her Trojan lover Troilus, a woman was allowed to play her.
ANSWER: Cressida [or Criseida; or Cresseid; or Criseyde]
[10h] This playwright set Mother Clap’s Molly House in a meeting place in 19th-century England where gay men crossdressed. Mark, Robbie, and Gary are named after the members of the band Take That in a play by this author.
ANSWER: Mark Ravenhill (the play is Shopping and Fucking.)
[10m] Male and female characters swap clothing to throw off the police in a Joe Orton play titled for What [this type of person] Saw. In a novel, a person with this occupation gossips with Miss Kenton over some evening cocoa.
ANSWER: butler [accept What the Butler Saw] (the novel is Ishiguro's The Remains of the Day.)
<Darren Petrosino, British Literature>
Summary
| 2023 Penn Bowl @ Waterloo | 10/28/2023 | Y | 4 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
| 2023 Penn Bowl @ FSU | 10/28/2023 | Y | 2 | 10.00 | 50% | 50% | 0% |
| 2023 Penn Bowl (Harvard) | 10/21/2023 | Y | 3 | 13.33 | 67% | 67% | 0% |
| 2023 Penn Bowl (Mainsite) | 10/21/2023 | Y | 7 | 18.57 | 86% | 71% | 29% |
| 2023 Penn Bowl (Norcal) | 10/28/2023 | Y | 2 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| 2023 Penn Bowl (South Central) | 10/28/2023 | Y | 3 | 3.33 | 0% | 33% | 0% |
| 2023 Penn Bowl (UK) | 10/28/2023 | Y | 5 | 20.00 | 100% | 80% | 20% |
| 2023 Penn Bowl @ UNC | 10/28/2023 | Y | 3 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
Data
| North Florida | Florida A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| FSU B | FSU A | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |