The fourth “episode” of this play ends with its protagonist performing a long stream-of-consciousness monologue that ends by repeating the line “I’ll not submit.” For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this 1928 Expressionist play by Sophie Treadwell that ends with its protagonist, the “Young Woman” Helen Jones, being executed by electric chair for the murder of her husband.
ANSWER: Machinal
[10m] The penultimate episode of Machinal takes place during one of these events. The journalist H. L. Hornbeck covers one of these events in the play Inherit the Wind.
ANSWER: courtroom trials [accept Scopes Monkey trial; accept courtroom cases; prompt on cases]
[10e] Prior to writing Machinal, Treadwell sued John Barrymore for stealing Plumes in the Dust, her play about this author of “The Raven.”
ANSWER: Edgar Allan Poe
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