Question
An alcoholic man starts coughing on the floor to stop his son from telling Shelly about the fate of this character. For 10 points each:
[10h] Identify or describe this unnamed character from a play. This character is born from an incestuous relationship between a corn farmer and his mother Halie, before being murdered by the family’s patriarch.
ANSWER: the buried child [or the baby from Buried Child; or Tilden’s child; or Dodge’s grandchild; prompt on baby with “from what play?”]
[10m] This American playwright of Buried Child wrote about Wesley Tate butchering his brother Weston’s lamb in Curse of the Starving Class, another tragedy in his Family Trilogy.
ANSWER: Sam Shepard [or Samuel Shepard Rogers III]
[10e] Shepard co-wrote “Brownsville Girl” with this singer-songwriter who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2016.
ANSWER: Bob Dylan [or Robert Dylan, or Robert Allen Zimmerman]
<Darren Petrosino, American Literature>
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