" A man who was admonished by an inspector for insulting a politician running for office likens his (*) self-absorbedness to that of one of this author's characters, in a story where the narrator and that man, Vasily Vasilyevich, share a bed during a boring dinner party.
A character who fits an archetype established by this author falls to his death while dismantling his roof with his bare hands. In a novel, a woman styled after one of this author's characters has a nightmare in which a cat with a dead man's head taunts her. The giant man Martin Petrovich Harlov is the protagonist of a story titled for one of this author's characters "of the Steppes." A man who was admonished by an inspector for insulting a politician running for office likens his (*) self-absorbedness to that of one of this author's characters, in a story where the narrator and that man, Vasily Vasilyevich, share a bed during a boring dinner party. A character modeled on one of this author's anti-heroines is exiled to Siberia for helping her lover Sergei suffocate her nephew Fyodor, poison her father-in-law Boris, and strangle her husband Zinovy, in a Nikolai Leskov novel. For 10 points, name this author who inspired the title character of Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District.
A character who fits an archetype established by this author falls to his death while dismantling his roof with his bare hands.
William Shakespeare 