Question
In a play titled for this character, Pissweet leads a crowd of citizens to prison under the motto that “slavery is the only freedom.” For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this character who flushes Conscience down a toilet in a play titled for him Cuckolded. In another play named for this character, he recites the Lord’s Prayer during a bear attack and uses that bear’s dead body to escape.
ANSWER: King Ubu [or Ubu Roi; accept Ubu Cuckolded or Ubu Enchained]
[10m] In Alfred Jarry’s (“zha-REE’s”) play Ubu Roi, the title character kills the king of this country and incites a revolution before fleeing to France. The title character pursues Zosia while their families feud in a national epic written by one of the “Three Bards” from this country.
ANSWER: Poland [or Polska] (The epic is Pan Tadeusz, written by Adam Mickiewicz.)
[10e] Ubu Roi is often cited as a precursor to plays in this theatrical movement. This movement, whose plays focused on nonsensical and outlandish events, included Eugène Ionesco and Samuel Beckett.
ANSWER: Theatre of the Absurd [or absurdism]
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