In one play, other characters repeatedly insist that this character was “seized by a raptus”. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this unseen character inspired by Giuseppe Pinelli. In a play titled for this character, a [emphasize] different man puts on a wooden leg and accidentally swallows his glass eye while impersonating a judge and making a recording.
ANSWER: the anarchist from Accidental Death of an Anarchist
[10m] Name this author who collaborated with Heaney on the anthology The Rattle Bag. After this poet’s death, Seamus Heaney wrote a poem titled “On First Looking Into” this author’s collection Birthday Letters.
ANSWER: Ted Hughes
[10m] The Maniac interrogates the Superintendent about the title character’s suspicious death in this Italian playwright’s 1970 play Accidental Death of an Anarchist.
ANSWER: Dario Fo
[10e] Hughes and Heaney’s mutual friend Barrie Cooke, with whom they went fishing, illustrated a Hughes poem about a “Great Pike” from this country. Seamus Heaney is from this country.
ANSWER: Ireland [or Republic of Ireland or Éire; accept “Great Irish Pike”]
[10e] Dario Fo received the Nobel Prize in Literature for his plays, much like this earlier Italian playwright of Henry IV and Six Characters in Search of an Author.
ANSWER: Luigi Pirandello
[10h] In Heaney’s poem “Twice Shy,” the speaker compares a walk to these animals’ conduct. Hughes wrote about one of these animals mixing “his heart’s blood with the mire of the land” in a poem that titles his first collection.
ANSWER: hawks [accept “The Hawk in the Rain”]
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