well-made play - Pacific Northwest

Question

Plays in this form produced conflict via the “quiproquo,” in which two characters would misinterpret the same situation in opposing ways. For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this formulaic 19th-century dramatic genre developed by Eugène Scribe (“oo-zhen skreeb”) and popularized by Victorien Sardou.

ANSWER: well-made play [or pièce bien faite]

[10e] George Bernard Shaw criticized the well-made play in an essay titled for the “quintessence” of this author, which laments that his play A Doll’s House may be acted as a “melodrama or farcical comedy.”

ANSWER: Henrik Ibsen [or Henrik Johan Ibsen; accept “The Quintessence of Ibsenism”]

[10m] An author with this surname adapted his didactic novel The Lady of the Camellias as a well-made play. Another author with this surname drew on his African ancestry in the novel Georges.

ANSWER: Dumas [accept Alexandre Dumas fils or Alexandre Dumas père]

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California	2025-02-01	Y	3	16.67	100%	33%	33%
Florida	2025-02-01	Y	3	10.00	67%	33%	0%
Great Lakes	2025-02-01	Y	6	16.67	100%	67%	0%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	2025-02-01	Y	6	18.33	100%	67%	17%
Midwest	2025-02-01	Y	6	18.33	100%	83%	0%
North	2025-02-01	Y	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%
Northeast	2025-02-01	Y	5	18.00	100%	80%	0%
Pacific Northwest	2025-02-01	Y	2	15.00	100%	50%	0%
South Central	2025-02-01	Y	2	10.00	100%	0%	0%
Southeast	2025-02-01	Y	4	12.50	100%	25%	0%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	2025-02-01	Y	9	18.89	100%	78%	11%
Upstate NY	2025-02-01	Y	3	10.00	100%	0%	0%

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