Round 15: Tossup 11

A playwright from this family depicted Lady Easy declining to wake her cheating husband as he sleeps in the Steinkirk scene. Thomas Arne’s sister, the actress Susannah (10[1])Maria, married an impresario from this family known for his portrayals of Ancient Pistol. A member (-5[1])of this family was tried for the murder of the English language by Henry Fielding and was elsewhere mocked as “Bays,” who sleeps through all of a poem’s Book IV. A playwright from this family wrote (10[1]-5[1])a gossipy “apology for” his own (10[1])life, added the line “Off with his head! So much for Buckingham” to his version of Richard III, and played fops (-5[1])in comedies (10[1])like Love’s Last Shift. In a poem’s B version, a poet laureate from this family replaced Lewis Theobold (10[1])as the hero of the (-5[1])goddess Dulness. (10[1]-5[5])For 10 (10[1])points, (10[1])the Dunciad (-5[2])mocks (-5[4])what family’s father-son pair Theophilus and Colley? (10[1])■END■ (10[5]0[10])

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