Question
After an exhumation of a mass grave, the apparent remains of this author were claimed and taken home by a friend who decided the largest skull must be his. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this author whose lost skull is the focus of a poem at the end of the Wilhelm Meister novel series. This author included The Piccolomini in a trilogy of plays about a 17th-century military leader.
ANSWER: Friedrich Schiller [or Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller] (The trilogy is Wallenstein. The friend in the lead-in is Goethe.)
[10e] The title character of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s Wilhelm Meister novels portrays this Shakespeare character, who rhapsodizes on the skull of his former jester Yorick.
ANSWER: Hamlet
[10h] After growing bored of Hamlet, Wilhelm’s theater troupe puts on this Gotthold Ephraim Lessing play, a retelling of the myth of Virginia in which the title character is stabbed by her father Odoardo.
ANSWER: Emilia Galotti [or Emilie Galotti]
<HG, European Literature>
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