Round 12: Tossup 19

This playwright described an air raid on the inventor Captain Shotover’s home in his play Heartbreak House. In a play by this author, (10[1])the “chocolate-cream soldier” Bluntschli (-5[1])falls in love with Raina during the Serbo-Bulgarian War. A character created by this playwright receives a massive inheritance after jokingly being called the “most original moralist ... in England.” This author (10[1])scandalized audiences with the line “Walk? Not bloody likely!” (10[1])in a play that opens at Covent Garden. In that play by this (10[1])author, Colonel Pickering bets that (10[2])Henry Higgins (10[1])can’t make Eliza Doolittle sound like (10[1])a duchess. For 10 points, name this (-5[1])playwright of Arms and the Man and Pygmalion. ■END■ (10[2]0[2])

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