Round 12: Tossup 19

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

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