Round 10: Tossup 11

In this play, a character is unable to rise from the ground until another character removes his clothes and whips himself. Each volume of a Kelmscott-inspired imprint created by J. M. Dent prints this play’s line “I will go with thee, and be thy guide.” Actors are randomly assigned roles before performances (15[1])of a 2017 adaptation of this play by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins. (-5[1])The Salzburg (-5[1])Festival annually performs an adaptation of this play in which both a floozy named Buhlschaft and (*) Mammon abandon a rich (10[1])playboy. The protagonist of this play receives a “book of accounts” while accompanied by Knowledge and Good Deeds. Hugo von Hofmannsthal adapted this Middle English play, whose title character repents (10[1])when (10[1])called by Death to appear before God. For 10 points, what morality play is titled for a universal protagonist? ■END■ (10[2])

ANSWER: Everyman [or The Somonyng of Everyman; accept Jedermann: Das Spiel vom Sterben des reichen Mannes] (Branden Jacobs-Jenkins wrote Everybody. J. M. Dent’s imprint is Everyman’s Library.)
<HA, British Literature> | NAFTA-Packet-10
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