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 of a 2017 adaptation of this play by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins. The 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 (10[1])adapted this Middle English play, (10[1])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[1])

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