Question
The protagonist of a play by this author becomes overwhelmed with rage after realizing that his wife Serafina is the model for Deianira in his painting of Hercules. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this playwright whose “honor plays” all end with men killing their wives. This author’s most famous play ends with the protagonist defying a prophecy by sparing his father Basilio.
ANSWER: Pedro Calderón de la Barca
[10e] Don Gutierre bleeds his wife Mencia to death in a Calderón honor play titled for a man with this profession. Argan continually requests for these people and desires to become one of them in Molière’s play The Hypochondriac.
ANSWER: doctors [or médicos or médecins; accept physicians or surgeons]
[10h] This Calderón play ends less violently, as the dishonored Isabella is allowed to become a nun. In this play, Pedro Crespo gains the title post after hanging the soldier Don Alvaro.
ANSWER: The Mayor of Zalamea [or El alcalde de Zalamea]
<HG, European Literature>
Summary
| 2024 ARCADIA at BU | 2024-12-06 | Y | 2 | 15.00 | 100% | 0% | 50% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Duke | 2024-12-06 | Y | 2 | 20.00 | 100% | 50% | 50% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Missouri S&T | 2024-12-06 | Y | 2 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| 2024 ARCADIA Online | 2025-05-17 | Y | 5 | 18.00 | 100% | 60% | 20% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Penn State | 2024-12-06 | Y | 1 | 30.00 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Florida Tech | 2024-12-06 | Y | 1 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley | 2024-12-06 | Y | 2 | 20.00 | 100% | 50% | 50% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Waterloo | 2024-11-09 | Y | 5 | 14.00 | 100% | 40% | 0% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at GT | 2024-12-06 | Y | 3 | 13.33 | 100% | 0% | 33% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Illinois | 2024-11-09 | Y | 3 | 23.33 | 100% | 100% | 33% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Warwick | 2024-12-06 | Y | 4 | 12.50 | 100% | 25% | 0% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Claremont | 2024-11-02 | Y | 3 | 16.67 | 100% | 33% | 33% |
Data
| Imperial A | Cambridge A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| LSE B | Cambridge B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| LSE A | Warwick A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Warwick B | Warwick C | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |