Friedrich Schiller - Pacific Northwest

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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Lower Mid-Atlantic	2025-02-01	Y	6	10.00	100%	0%	0%
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North	2025-02-01	Y	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%
Northeast	2025-02-01	Y	5	14.00	100%	40%	0%
Overflow	2025-02-01	Y	5	16.00	100%	60%	0%
Pacific Northwest	2025-02-01	Y	2	20.00	100%	100%	0%
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