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In this author’s last play, a man who has gone mad opens a sack of gold pieces, scatters them over another man, and then draws a knife and rushes offstage to fatally stab himself. At the end of a different play by this author, women bear a man’s corpse on a plank and place him on a table so that he can be sprinkled with holy water. This author’s final play, which was partly completed by his fiancée Molly Allgood, ends with the burning of the castle Emain Macha (“AY-vun VAH-khuh”) and the death of the title character, (10[1])who was prophesied to be the ruin of the sons of Usna. Bartley falls off his horse into the ocean (10[1])in a (10[1])one-act (10[1]-5[1])play (10[2])by this author (10[1])about the drowning (10[2])of the sons of (10[1])Maurya (10[3])(“MOR-yuh”). For 10 points, (10[1])the Aran Islands inspired (10[1]-5[1])the (10[1])plays Deirdre (10[1])(“DEER-druh”) of the Sorrows (10[1])and Riders to the Sea by what (-5[1])Irish playwright of Playboy (10[1])of the Western World? (10[1])■END■ (10[2])

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