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[2])The (-5[1])Salzburg Festival annually performs an adaptation of this play in which both a floozy named Buhlschaft and (*) Mammon abandon a rich 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 when called by Death to appear before God. For 10 points, what morality play is titled for a universal protagonist? ■END■ (10[3])

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