Packet H: Tossup 12

A character partly named for one of these objects inspired a tradition of poems including Richard the Redeless and the polemical Jack Upland. A poem partly titled for one of these objects inspired the title of a play featuring the priggish Mrs. Grundy by Thomas Morton. (10[1])A character (10[1])named for one of these objects appears after speeches by the Seven Deadly Sins in the fifth passus (-5[1])of a poem from the Alliterative (10[1])Revival. David Mamet’s play about the movie producer Bobby (10[1])Gould (10[1])takes (10[1])its (10[1])title from a Middle English poem that asks God to (-5[1])“speed” (10[4])one (10[1])of these (10[2])objects. (10[17])A Christ-like (10[4])character (-5[1])named (10[1])for using (10[1])this (10[1])object is seen in (10[1])dream (10[1])visions by the narrator in a poem by William (10[1])Langland. (-5[2])For 10 points, (-5[1])what sort of implement (10[1])appears in the surname (10[1])of the Middle English (10[1])character Piers? (10[2])■END■ (10[11]0[24])

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