Round 8: 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. A character named for one of these objects appears after speeches by the Seven Deadly Sins in the fifth passus of a poem from the Alliterative Revival. David Mamet’s play about the movie producer Bobby Gould takes its title from a Middle English poem that asks God to “speed” one of these objects. A Christ-like character named for using this object is seen in dream visions by the narrator in a poem by William Langland. For 10 points, what sort of implement appears in the surname (10[1])of the Middle English character Piers? ■END■ (10[1])

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