Question
In a play by this author, a poet's "Darkness" is recited before a flashback of 200 years to when a girl asked if that poet would marry her. In a play by this man, a real-life poet reviews his unrequited love for Moses Jackson while waiting by the River Styx. James Joyce runs a production of an Oscar Wilde work in a play by this author of The Invention of Love. The discovery that a man died of a (*) monkey bite disproves Bernard's theory that Lord Byron killed Ezra in a play by this man. Alfred and the Tragedians rehearse The Murder of Gonzago in a play by this author where two men flip a coin 92 times. For 10 points, name this playwright of Arcadia who parodied Shakespeare in his Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead. ■END■
ANSWER: Tom Stoppard [or Tomáš Sträussler] (The unnamed play in the third line is Stoppard's Travesties. The Invention of Love is about A. E. Housman.)
<Literature - British Literature - Drama>
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| Tournament | Edition | Exact Match? | TUH | Conv. % | Power % | Neg % | Average Buzz |
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| 2025 PACE NSC | 06/07/2025 | Y | 42 | 90% | 36% | 0% | 83.50 |