Question
Name these English authors of tragedies about Muslim rulers, for 10 points each.
[10e] The “Great Mogul” personifies virtue in Aureng-Zebe, and Boabdelin’s death unites Almanzor and Almahide in The Conquest of Granada, two rhymed heroic tragedies by this first English poet laureate.
ANSWER: John Dryden
[10m] Cervantes’s writings on Algiers informed this author’s tragicomedy about Paulina’s captivity under the Tunisian bey Asambeg, The Renegado. He created Sir Giles Over-reach in A New Way to Pay Old Debts.
ANSWER: Philip Massinger
[10h] The newly-translated Arabian Nights inspired this author’s “tragedy of state” about a vizier’s daughter who opposes Sultan Almanzor, Almyna. This author wrote a satirical “secret history” of the Whigs in The New Atalantis.
ANSWER: Delarivier Manley [or Delia Manley]
<British Literature>
Summary
| 2024 ACF Nationals | 2024-04-21 | Y | 24 | 8.33 | 58% | 21% | 4% |
Data
| Arizona State | Claremont Colleges | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Vanderbilt | Chicago C | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Chicago A | Cornell A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Illinois | Georgia Tech | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Harvard | Kentucky | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Johns Hopkins | Iowa State | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Toronto A | Maryland | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Chicago D | Minnesota B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| NYU | Michigan | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| North Carolina B | Cornell B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Brown | Northwestern | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Penn | Ottawa | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Purdue | Indiana | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Rutgers | Florida | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| South Carolina | McGill | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Minnesota A | Stanford | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Columbia A | Texas | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Toronto B | Duke | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Berkeley B | Truman State | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Yale B | Virginia | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| North Carolina A | WUSTL A | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| WUSTL B | Columbia B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Waterloo | Chicago B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Yale A | Berkeley A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |