Packet 1: Bonus 7
English dramatists often used silent dumbshows for dramatic or symbolic effect. For 10 points each:
[10e] Dumbshows may have been a holdover from this medieval genre that evolved from earlier mystery and miracle plays. Characters in this genre of Everyman often personified virtues and vices.
ANSWER: morality plays
[10m] In one of this playwright’s dramatic dumbshows, a conjurer summons a vision of Isabella, who kisses a poisoned portrait; in another, a cardinal dresses in armor and banishes his sister at the Shrine of our Lady of Loretto.
ANSWER: John Webster (The plays are The White Devil and The Duchess of Malfi.)
[10h] Dumbshows thrice interrupt this character, who evokes the play’s source by speaking in tetrameter. This character introduces the audience to the court of the incestuous king Antiochus, who suddenly dies offstage by “fire from heaven” in Act II.
ANSWER: John Gower [prompt on the chorus of Pericles, Prince of Tyre] (The character is based on the medieval poet John Gower, whose Confessio Amantis is the source text for Pericles.)
<Toronto A, British Literature> | A. Prelims 1 - Waterloo + Toronto A + Georgia Tech B
| Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 22 | 12.27 | 82% | 32% | 9% |
Conversion
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total | Parts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| British Columbia | Virginia | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | EM |
| Cambridge | Rutgers | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Chicago B | Georgia Tech C | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Columbia B | MIT | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Georgia Tech A | Georgetown | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Harvard | Chicago A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Maryland A | Indiana | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | EM |
| Maryland B | Minnesota | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Michigan | Northwestern A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| NYU A | Johns Hopkins | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| North Carolina | UCF | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 | EH |
| Penn State | UCLA | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | EMH |
| Pittsburgh | Cornell | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Stanford A | Illinois B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Stanford B | Northwestern B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | EM |
| Texas | Ohio State | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Toronto B | Bruin | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | EM |
| UC Berkeley A | Columbia A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | EM |
| UC Berkeley B | Illinois A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Vanderbilt | Brown | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Virginia Tech | Purdue | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | EM |
| WashU | Swarthmore | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Match | Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Main Site | 2026-04-17 | ✓ | 22 | 12.27 | 82% | 32% | 9% |