GRE Subject Test: Literature in English : Identification of British Plays After 1925
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Example Question #133 : Identification
This play's title is taken from a line in Shelley's poem "To a Skylark."
Night Must Fall by Emlyn Williams
Love on the Dole by Ronald Gow
Long Day’s Journey into Night by Eugene O'Neill
Blithe Spirit by Noel Coward
The Royal Hunt of the Sun by Peter Shaffer
Blithe Spirit by Noel Coward
The title of Noel Coward's 1941 comic play, Blithe Spirit, is taken from a the first line of Percy Bysshe Shelley's poem "To a Skylark":
Example Question #2 : Identification Of British Plays After 1925
What play centers on two hit-men, Ben and Gus, who are awaiting their next assignment in a windowless basement?
No Exit by Jean-Paul-Sartre
Underground Lovers by Jean Tardieu
The Dumb Waiter by Harold Pinter
The Balcony by Jean Genet
Endgame by Samuel Beckett
The Dumb Waiter by Harold Pinter
This overview describes the one-act play The Dumb Waiter by Harold Pinter.
Example Question #11 : Identification Of Plays
This play switches back and forth between the year 1809 and the present. Some of the main characters include Thomasina Coverly, Septimus Hodge, Hannah Jarvis, and Bernard Nightingale.
Arcadia by Tom Stoppard
Narrow Road to the Deep North by Edward Bond
Translations by Brian Friel
Chips with Everything by Arnold Wesker
Ashes to Ashes by Harold Pinter
Arcadia by Tom Stoppard
This is a brief overview of Arcadia by Tom Stoppard, a play first performed in 1993.
Example Question #12 : Identification Of Plays
The Common Man, Sir Thomas More, and Thomas Cromwell are characters in which of the following plays?
Long Day’s Journey Into Night by Eugene O’Neill
Arcadia by Tom Stoppard
The Way of the World by William Congreve
A Man for All Seasons by Robert Bolt
The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams
A Man for All Seasons by Robert Bolt
The Common Man, Sir Thomas More, and Thomas Cromwell are characters from the 1960 play A Man for All Seasons by Robert Bolt. The play follows the life of Sir Thomas More, the sixteenth-century Chancellor of England—a "man of conscience."
Example Question #13 : Identification Of Plays
Anthonio Salieri, Constanze Weber, and Emperor Joseph II are characters from which of the following plays?
Blithe Spirit by Noel Coward
Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw
The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
Amadeus by Peter Shaffer
Saint Joan by George Bernard Shaw
Amadeus by Peter Shaffer
Anthonio Salieri, Constanze Weber, and Emperor Joseph II are characters in Peter Shaffer's 1979 play Amadeus, which creates a fictionalized plot centering on composers, Amadeus Mozart and Antonio Salieri. The play is based on the 1830 play by Alexander Pushkin, Mozart and Salieri.
Example Question #14 : Identification Of Plays
Which of the following is an absurdist, existentialist play that focuses on characters from a Shakespearian tragedy?
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard
The Zoo Story by Edward Albee
Waiting for Godot by Samuel Becket
A Man for All Seasons by Robert Bolt
The Homecoming by Harold Pinter
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard
This brief overview describes Tom Stoppard’s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, first performed in 1966. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are minor characters from Shakespeare's Hamlet who are presumably killed off-stage over the course of the play.
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