The clues below all refer to dramatic characters called ‘Charles’, ‘Charlie’ or ‘Chuck’. Can you tell me their other names, the plays in which they appear and the authors of those plays ?
- This Charles was haunted by the ghost of his late wife, Elvira.
- His surname is not recorded but he boasts that “he that escapes me without some broken limb shall acquit him well”.
- This Charly had a Brazilian relation.
- Here Charles was the surname. She had an affair with Jimmy in a 1950s classic.
- Charles is the surname again of the uncle of Berniece and Boy Willie.
- He was defeated in combat by a woman to whom he said, “Stay, stay thy hands; thou art an Amazon, And fightest with the sword of Deborah”.
- His surname is never mentioned but he has a son called Bernard and a neighbour called Willy.
- Known as Chuck, he is a bartender and plans to marry Cora and buy a farm in New Jersey.
- An archbishop told him, “You cannot be allowed to see this crazy wench.”
- He reflected, “I’m Charles no more the human being but transformed into a Spitting Image puppet”
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