GRE Subject Test: Literature in English : Identification of Plays
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Example Question #8 : Identification Of World Plays After 1925
The German playwright and poet Bertolt Brecht wrote which of the following important anti-war plays?
The Rhinoceros
Mother Courage and Her Children
The Caretaker
Waiting for Godot
The Bird
Mother Courage and Her Children
Brecht’s works, among which are Mother Courage and Her Children and The Caucasian Chalk Circle, often encouraged audience participation and deep critical thinking. He is often considered a founder of Epic Theatre, although he chose to qualify or reject that classification. Mother Courage and Her Children is one of many of his plays written in response to the rise of Nazism.
Example Question #9 : Identification Of World Plays After 1925
What Peruvian writer and Nobel laureate wrote the plays La Chunga; Pretty Eyes, Ugly Pictures; and The Madman of the Balconies?
Alejandro Jodorowsky
Julio Cortázar
Fernando Arrabal
Sebastián Salazar Bondy
Mario Vargas Llosa
Mario Vargas Llosa
This is Mario Vargas Llosa, one of the most influential Latin American writers of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. His work (which includes novels and essays as well as drama) is often political and anti-nationalistic and is deeply invested in portraying power struggles between rulers and the poor or disenfranchised.
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