Mary Whitehouse had Michael Bogdanov tried for obscenity for staging the anal rape of a druid in a play inspired by events in this country. For 10 points each:
[10e] Howard Brenton’s play The Romans in Britain allegorizes military presence in what country? The play The Ferryman and Anna Burns’s novel Milkman are both set in this constituent country of the UK.
ANSWER: Northern Ireland [reject “Ireland”]
[10m] Another play that allegorizes Northern Ireland as Roman Britain, David Rudkin’s The Saxon Shore, depicts Saxon “plantationers” as these beings. In a medieval poem, a knight and a baroness conspire to steal the clothing of one of these beings.
ANSWER: werewolves [or lycanthropes; accept word forms of lycanthropia] (The poem is “Bisclavret” is by Marie de France.)
[10h] Another Rudkin play inspired by early English history climaxes with this king defeating the prudish “mother and father of England.” The gay teenager Stephen encounters an incubus in that 1974 TV play titled for this king’s “fen.”
ANSWER: Penda [accept Penda’s Fen]
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