Question
The Little Theatre movement reacted against this pervasive quality in Victorian theater, as typified by Augustin Daly’s Under the Gaslight and Dion Boucicault’s (“DYE-ahn BOO-sih-koh’s”) The Octoroon. For 10 points each:
[10e] Give this generic term for sensational plays. It originates from plays that used music to heighten exaggerated plots about stock heroes and villains.
ANSWER: melodramas [or melodramatic plays]
[10h] A Gilded Age champion of “real melodrama” with this first name wrote realistic comedies like The Truth. A villain with this name torments ex-prisoners at a purgatorial truck stop kitchen in a recent play by Lynn Nottage.
ANSWER: Clyde [accept Clyde’s; accept Clyde Fitch or William Clyde Fitch; prompt on William by asking “he typically went by what first name?”; prompt on Floyd’s by asking “the play was retitled for what name?”]
[10m] Richard Mansfield starred in Clyde Fitch’s 1890 play about this paradigmatic English dandy, who is called an “emperor among… insects” in William Hazlitt’s essay about his vacuous wit.
ANSWER: Beau Brummell [or George Bryan Brummell; accept “Brummelliana”]
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Data
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Berkeley A | Maryland | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Berkeley B | McGill | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Chicago A | Stanford | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Chicago D | Chicago C | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Claremont Colleges | Virginia | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Columbia A | Indiana | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Cornell A | Purdue | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Florida | Duke | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Harvard | South Carolina | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Johns Hopkins | Georgia Tech | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Kentucky | Minnesota B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Michigan | Brown | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Minnesota A | Waterloo | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| NYU | Iowa State | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| North Carolina A | Chicago B | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| North Carolina B | Truman State | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Penn | WUSTL B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Rutgers | Arizona State | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Texas | WUSTL A | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Toronto A | Illinois | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Toronto B | Ottawa | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Vanderbilt | Cornell B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Yale A | Northwestern | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Yale B | Columbia B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Exact Match? | Heard | PPB | Easy % | Medium % | Hard % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 ACF Nationals | 04/21/2024 | Y | 24 | 9.17 | 42% | 33% | 17% |