GRE Subject Test: Literature in English : Identification of British Plays After 1925
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Example Question #13 :Identification Of British Plays
This play's title is taken from a line in Shelley's poem "To a Skylark."
Long Day’s Journey into Nightby Eugene O'Neill
Love on the Doleby Ronald Gow
The Royal Hunt of the Sunby Peter Shaffer
Blithe Spiritby Noel Coward
Night Must Fallby Emlyn Williams
Blithe Spiritby Noel Coward
The title ofNoel 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 #14 :Identification Of British Plays
What play centers on two hit-men, Ben and Gus, who are awaiting their next assignment in a windowless basement?
Endgameby Samuel Beckett
Underground Loversby Jean Tardieu
No Exitby Jean-Paul-Sartre
The Dumb Waiterby Harold Pinter
The Balconyby Jean Genet
The Dumb Waiterby Harold Pinter
This overview describes the one-act playThe Dumb Waiterby Harold Pinter.
Example Question #15 :Identification Of British 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.
Narrow Road to the Deep Northby Edward Bond
一个shes to Ashesby Harold Pinter
Chips with Everythingby Arnold Wesker
Translationsby Brian Friel
一个rcadiaby Tom Stoppard
一个rcadiaby Tom Stoppard
This is a brief overview of一个rcadia由汤姆斯托帕德在1993年首次演出的戏剧。
Example Question #16 :Identification Of British Plays
The Common Man, Sir Thomas More, and Thomas Cromwell are characters in which of the following plays?
Long Day’s Journey Into Nightby Eugene O’Neill
一个Man for All Seasonsby Robert Bolt
The Glass Menagerieby Tennessee Williams
一个rcadiaby Tom Stoppard
The Way of the Worldby William Congreve
一个Man for All Seasonsby Robert Bolt
The Common Man, Sir Thomas More, and Thomas Cromwell are characters from the 1960 play一个Man for All Seasonsby Robert Bolt. The play follows the life of Sir Thomas More, the sixteenth-century Chancellor of England—a "man of conscience."
Example Question #17 :Identification Of British Plays
一个nthonio Salieri, Constanze Weber, and Emperor Joseph II are characters from which of the following plays?
Blithe Spiritby Noel Coward
一个madeusby Peter Shaffer
The Importance of Being Earnestby Oscar Wilde
Pygmalionby George Bernard Shaw
Saint Joanby George Bernard Shaw
一个madeusby Peter Shaffer
一个nthonio Salieri, Constanze Weber, and Emperor Joseph II are characters in Peter Shaffer's 1979 play一个madeus, 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 #18 :Identification Of British Plays
Which of the following is an absurdist, existentialist play that focuses on characters from a Shakespearian tragedy?
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Deadby Tom Stoppard
The Zoo Storyby Edward Albee
Waiting for Godotby Samuel Becket
The Homecomingby Harold Pinter
一个Man for All Seasonsby Robert Bolt
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Deadby Tom Stoppard
This brief overview describes Tom Stoppard’sRosencrantz 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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