Round 1: Tossup 22

Upon returning to England, this character rereads Shakespeare and discovers the playwright’s hidden message that the “business of copulation is filth.” This character, who scribbles maxims like “Men must not cut down trees” and “There is a God,” is diagnosed as simply “not having a sense of proportion.” This character briefly finds solace sewing a hat with his wife, but panics when he hears a doctor ascend the stairs. While recuperating in (*) Italy, this character meets his future wife, Lucrezia, who later points out a toffee ad in skywriting as they (-5[1])sit on a park (10[1])bench. A (10[1])party host imagines her own (10[1])body landing on rusty spikes after hearing the Bradshaws mention that this character had jumped out of a window. For 10 points, Virginia Woolf described what shell-shocked veteran in Mrs Dalloway? ■END■ (10[1])

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