GRE Subject Test: Literature in English : Contexts of World Plays
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Example Question #2 :Contexts Of World Plays After 1925
Who of the following is not an African dramatist?
Ola Rotimi
Jean Rhys
Wole Soyinka
Ngugi wa Thiong'o
一个ma Ata Aidoo
Jean Rhys
While Jean Rhys is a renowned writer, she is Dominican and not African. Moreover, she was known for writing novels (includingWide Sargasso Seaand一个fter Leaving Mr. Mackenzie)and not plays.
Example Question #3 :Contexts Of World Plays After 1925
Which of these European playwrights was a staunch Marxist?
Eugene Ionesco
Henrik Ibsen
Friedrich Schiller
Jean Genet
Bertolt Brecht
Bertolt Brecht
This dramatist is Brecht, and his lifelong Marxist leanings were often visible in his aesthetics. His works include plays such asMother Courage and Her Children, The Threepenny Opera,andMan Equals Man. He and his wife also co-founded and operated the Berliner Ensemble, an important post-war German theater company.
Example Question #4 :Contexts Of World Plays After 1925
Which of the following playwrights did not write work belonging to the Theatre of the Absurd?
Samuel Beckett
Tennessee Williams
Jean Genet
Eugene Ionesco
Fernando Arrabal
Tennessee Williams
Only Tennessee Williams did not write absurdist plays emphasizing the meaninglessness of human existence. (The Theatre of the Absurd was a primarily European phenomenon, and Williams was American.)
Example Question #5 :Contexts Of World Plays After 1925
What is the subject of the play一个Doll’s House?
shifting political regimes in Norway
wartime attitudes toward pacifists in Germany
nineteenth-century marital norms
the miniaturization of urban life
social conventions surrounding treatment of the disabled
nineteenth-century marital norms
Written by Henrik Ibsen,一个Doll’s Houseconcerns what the playwright considered to be the constricting aspects of marriage, motherhood, female domesticity, and public reputation versus private morality. The work is a tragedy and takes place in Ibsen’s native Norway in the late nineteenth century.
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