Max Beerbohm’s half-brother, Herbert Beerbohm Tree, appeared in a production of a play by this author about Gerald Arbuthnot’s parentage. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this author who wrote about Mrs. Cheveley blackmailing Robert Chiltern in the play An Ideal Husband.
ANSWER: Oscar Wilde [or Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wills Wilde]
[10e] Wilde wrote about Lord Illingworth’s illegitimate son in a play titled for A Woman of No [this word]. Jack Worthing is swapped as a baby by Miss Prism in a Wilde play titled The [this word] of Being Earnest.
ANSWER: importance [accept word forms; accept no importance or A Woman of No Importance]
[10h] This playwright wrote an adaptation of A Woman of No Importance that was used for the TV show Talking Heads. This author of The Habit of Art wrote about pupils of Cutlers’ Grammar School in The History Boys.
ANSWER: Alan Bennett
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