Question
Harro Hassenreuter gives acting lessons via choruses from a tragedy by this author in Gerhart Hauptmann’s play The Rats. For 10 points each:
[10m] The brothers Manuel and Cesar both fall in love with their sister Beatrice in what author’s play The Bride of Messina? In another play by this author, Karl Moor joins the title outlaws after feuding with his brother Franz.
ANSWER: Friedrich Schiller [or Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller] (The play is The Robbers.)
[10e] In another Schiller play, this character kills the tyrant Gessler while the latter is threatening the peasant woman Armgart. Gessler earlier makes this character shoot an apple off his own son’s head after he fails to salute him.
ANSWER: William Tell [or William Tell]
[10h] President von Walter and his secretary Wurm devise a scheme involving a fake love letter to prevent a marriage in this Schiller tragedy. Ferdinand and his love Luise Miller both die by drinking poison at this play’s end.
ANSWER: Intrigue and Love [or Kabale und Liebe; or Cabal and Love; or Love and Intrigue; or Love and Politics]
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Summary
| 2024 ACF Winter at UC Berkeley | 2024-11-16 | Y | 3 | 20.00 | 100% | 67% | 33% |
| 2024 ACF Winter at Clemson | 2024-11-16 | Y | 8 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Winter at Northwestern | 2024-11-16 | Y | 9 | 15.56 | 100% | 56% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Winter at Ohio State | 2024-11-16 | Y | 7 | 15.71 | 100% | 43% | 14% |
| 2024 ACF Winter at Online | 2024-11-16 | Y | 8 | 12.50 | 100% | 25% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Winter at UBC | 2024-11-16 | Y | 3 | 16.67 | 100% | 67% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Winter at Oxford | 2024-11-16 | Y | 11 | 11.82 | 91% | 27% | 0% |
Data
| Texas B | Arkansas | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Central Oklahoma | Vassar A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Texas A | Colorado College | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Iowa | Texas D | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| NYU B | McGill E | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Mississippi State | Missouri | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Ole Miss | Oregon State | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Texas C | NYU A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |