Question
In a play by Peter Gill, the farmer George and the theater director John start a romance in 1960s England while staging a set of plays named for this city. For 10 points each:
[10m] Give this city that names a cycle of 48 mystery plays partly by an anonymous “Realist.” In his first soliloquy, Richard III puns that the “winter of our discontent” is “made glorious summer” by an object of this city.
ANSWER: York [accept The York Realist; accept York Mystery Plays] (Richard III mentions “this sun of York,” a pun on the phrase “son of York.”)
[10e] The York Realist is typically believed to have contributed eight plays on this period to the York Cycle. A genre of Christian plays, such as one held every decade in Oberammergau, reenacts this period preceding Jesus’s death.
ANSWER: Passion [or Passion of the Christ; accept Passion play]
[10h] In recent years, York guilds have begun performing the cycle in these historically accurate structures. Medieval audiences typically watched mystery plays performed in these structures that moved along a processional route.
ANSWER: pageant wagons [prompt on wagons or carts]
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Summary
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| 2024 ESPN @ Duke | 03/23/2024 | Y | 2 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| 2024 ESPN @ Online | 06/01/2024 | Y | 3 | 13.33 | 67% | 67% | 0% |
Data
| Eugene o'Negging | A VK a Day Keeps the Doctor Away | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Heat-Oppressed Brains | You, Me and the Big G | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |