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Plays
Plays and Playwrights
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| A Doll's House | Henrik Ibsen |
| A Raisin in the Sun | Lorraine Hansberry |
| A Streetcar Named Desire | Tennessee Williams (Blanche DuBois and Stanley Kowalski represent Williams’s two visions of the South: declining “old romantic” vs. the harsh modern era.) |
| Death of a Salesman | Arthur Miller (Willy Loman is a failed salesman) |
| Long Day's Journey into Night | Eugene O'Neill (actually produced three years after he died, it centers on Edmund and the rest of the Tyrone family, but is really an autobiographical account of the dysfunction of O’Neill’s own family) |
| Medea | Euripedes |
| Our Town | Thornton Wilder |
| Pygmalion | George Bernard Shaw |
| The Cherry Orchard | Anton Chekov |
| Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf | Edward Albee |
| Oedipus Rex | Sophocles |
| The Importance of Being Earnest | Oscar Wilde |
| Waiting for Godot | Samuel Beckett |
| Tartuffe | Moliere |
| Glengarry Glen Ross | David Mamet |
| Mourning Becomes Electra | Eugene O'Neill (Lavinia Mannon desires revenge against her mother, Christine, who with the help of her lover Adam Brant) |
| The Glass Menagerie | Tennessee Williams (narrated by Tom Wingfield, who supports his mother Amanda and his crippled sister Laura) |
| The Iceman Cometh | Eugene O'Neill (patrons of the End of the Line Café anticipate the annual arrival of Theodore “Hickey” Hickman) |
| Cat on a Hot Tin Roof | Tennessee Williams (fight between Gooper and Brick over father's estate who is dying of cancer) |
| The Little Foxes | Lillian Hellman |
| The Crucible | Arthur Miller (Salem Witch Trials) |
| A View From the Bridge | Miller |
| A Delicate Balance | Albee |
| Androcles and the Lion | Shaw |
| Awake and Sing | Odets |
| Barefoot in the Park | Simon |
| Biloxi Blues | Simon |
| Blithe Spirit | Coward |
| Brighton Beach Memoirs | Simon |
| Buried Child | Shepard |
| Candida | Shaw |
| Come Back, Little Sheba | Inge |
| Desire Under the Elms | O'Neill |
| Fool for Love | Shepard |
| Ghosts | Ibsen |
| Hay Fever | Coward |
| Hedda Gabler | Ibsen |
| Lost in Yonkers | Simon |
| Man and Superman | Shaw |
| Misanthrope | Moliere |
| Murder in the Cathedral | Eliot |
| Picnic | Inge |
| Rent | Larson |
| The Autumn Garden | Hellman |
| The Bear | Chekov |
| The Children's Hour | Hellman |
| The Country Girl | Odets |
| The Heidi Chronicles | Wasserstein |
| The Homecoming | Pinter |
| The Lower Depths | Gorki |
| The Piano Lesson | Wilson |
| The Player | Altman |
| The Sisters Rosenzweig | Wasserstein |
| The Skin of Our Teeth | Wilder |
| The Three Penny Opera | Brecht |
| The Trojan Women | Euripides |
| Three Sisters | Chekov |
| Torch Song Trilogy | Fierstein |
| Waiting for Lefty | Odets |
| Name this author of comedies such as The Wasps, The Knights, Lysistrata, and The Frogs | Aristophanes |
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