Packet 1: Tossup 15

In a play by this author, a man makes a woman swear on his mother’s crucifix, then panics because she isn’t Catholic. One of this author’s characters often adopts the pose of Rodin’s The Thinker (15[2])and spends a night in the Battery before a stage instruction (15[1])about his death notes that he “at last belongs.” In the Zone is one of four one-act plays that this author set on the S.S. Glencairn. A film with the tagline (*) “Garbo talks!” adapts a play by this author whose protagonist defies her estranged Swedish father (10[1])by eloping with the shipwreck (10[1])survivor Matt Burke. In a play by this author, the steel heiress Mildred Douglas exclaims “oh, the filthy beast!” (10[1]-5[1])upon seeing the coal stoker Yank, who is later crushed to death at the zoo by a gorilla. For 10 points, name this playwright of Anna Christie and The Hairy Ape. (10[1])■END■ (10[1]0[2])

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