Round 10: 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, the “chocolate-cream soldier” Bluntschli (10[2])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 (10[1])... in England.” This author scandalized audiences (10[1])with the line “Walk? Not bloody likely!” (10[1])in a play that opens at Covent Garden. (10[1])In that play by this author, Colonel Pickering bets (10[1])that (10[1])Henry Higgins can’t make (10[1])Eliza Doolittle (10[1])sound like a duchess. For 10 points, name this playwright of Arms and the Man and Pygmalion. ■END■ (0[1])

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