Question

This author complains that “I got so sick of hearing people say, ‘I loved your play!’ that I could not say thank you any more” in an essay about feeling estranged from his friends. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this author of the essay “The Catastrophe of Success.” That essay was published days before the opening of this author’s play about Blanche DuBois moving to New Orleans, A Streetcar Named Desire.
ANSWER: Tennessee Williams [or Thomas Lanier Williams, III]
[10m] “The Catastrophe of Success” describes being “snatched out of virtual oblivion” by this play. In this “memory play,” Laura Wingfield’s “gentleman caller” breaks her unicorn figurine.
ANSWER: The Glass Menagerie
[10h] In “The Catastrophe of Success,” Williams mentions accidentally pouring chocolate sauce over a steak in one of these locations. In another play by Williams, Reverend Shannon visits one of these locations run by Maxine.
ANSWER: hotels [or motels] (The play is The Night of the Iguana.)
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2024 ACF Fall at CornellfallY911.1178%33%0%
2024 ACF Fall at Ohio StatefallY820.00100%88%13%
2024 ACF Fall at WashingtonfallY620.0083%83%33%
2024 ACF Fall at GeorgiafallY1220.0083%92%25%
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West Virginia A (UG) CWRU A (UG) 1010020
Miami A (UG) CWRU B (DII) 1010020
Michigan C Jefferson County Scholars (DII)100010
Michigan B (UG)Michigan A (UG) 1010020
Michigan State A Michigan State B 1010020
Ohio State A (UG) CWRU C (UG)1010020
Ohio State B (DII) Miami B (UG) 1010020
Michigan D (UG)West Virginia B (UG) 10101030