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Example Questions
Example Question #45 : Contexts Of Plays
Which of the following is not a character in Waiting for Godot?
Vladimir
Pozzo
Estragon
Lucky
Molloy
Molloy
Molloy is the title of a 1951 novel by Samuel Beckett, but it is not the name of a character in Waiting for Godot (1953).
Example Question #701 : Gre Subject Test: Literature In English
What famous play do the protagonists of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead originally appear in?
Pygmalion
Death of a Salesman
Hamlet
A Streetcar Named Desire
Henry IV Part I
Hamlet
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are minor characters in Shakespeare’s Hamlet (1603). Most of Stoppard’s play takes place “offstage” or behind the scenes of the actions in Hamlet, with Rosencrantz and Guildenstern (two of Hamlet’s friends and courtiers) acting confused about what is happening onstage without them. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead was first performed in 1966.
Tennessee Williams A Streetcar Named Desire (1947), Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman (1949), George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion (1913), and William Shakespeare's Henry IV Part I (1600) were all used as alternate answer choices.
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