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A professional soldier created by this author claims that his rank is “the highest known in Switzerland: a free citizen.” In a play by this author, the author of The Revolutionist’s Handbook is captured by Mendoza in the Sierra Nevadas. This author (15[1])stormed out of the 1914 premiere of one of his plays after the audience laughed at an “incarnadine adverb” uttered by Mrs. Stella Patrick Campbell. Jack (-5[1])(*) Tanner marries Ann Whitefield in a play by this author, whose third act is titled “Don Juan in Hell.” This author wrote the essay “What Happened (10[1])Afterward” to (10[1])explain that, after the end of a play by him, a Cockney (10[1])girl, who had earlier exclaimed “Not bloody likely!,” married Freddy Eynsford-Hill, not phonetics professor Henry Higgins. For 10 points, name this Irish playwright of Arms and the Man, Man and Superman and Pygmalion. ■END■

ANSWER: George Bernard Shaw
<Literature - British Literature>
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