CLEP Humanities : Identifying Titles, Authors, or Schools of Nineteenth-Century Drama
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Example Question #1 : Identifying Titles, Authors, Or Schools Of Nineteenth Century Drama
Gilbert and Sullivan were known for writing what kind of works?
Tragedies
Comic operas
Epic poems
Histories
Novels
Comic operas
W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan were a librettist and composer, respectively, who began teaming up in the 1870s to write comic operas. Throughout the next few decades, Gilbert and Sullivan wrote some of the most well known works of theater, including The Pirates of Penzance, H.M.S. Pinafore, and The Mikado. Gilbert and Sullivan's work highly influenced the development of musical theater in the twentieth century.
Example Question #3 : Drama
Who wrote A Doll's House and Ghosts?
Nora Helmer
Henrik Ibsen
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Henry James
Helene Alving
Henrik Ibsen
Henrik Ibsen wrote both of the plays Ghosts and A Doll's House. He was a 19th century Norwegian playwright. He is sometimes called the "father of realism."
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