Identification of World Plays

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GRE Subject Test: Literature in English › Identification of World Plays

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What is the name of the Ghanaian writer who wrote the play The Dilemma of a Ghost?

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What is the name of the Ghanaian writer who wrote the play The Dilemma of a Ghost?

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This trilogy of Greek tragedies was written by Aeschylus and follows the story of the doomed House of Atreus. What is it?

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This trilogy of Greek tragedies was written by Aeschylus and follows the story of the doomed House of Atreus. What is it?

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Which famous Mozart opera is based on the legend of a seductive, lascivious Italian nobleman and has inspired such writers as Flaubert, Kierkegaard, and George Bernard Shaw?

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Which famous Mozart opera is based on the legend of a seductive, lascivious Italian nobleman and has inspired such writers as Flaubert, Kierkegaard, and George Bernard Shaw?

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Which famous nineteenth-century Scandinavian playwright wrote A Doll’s House, The Wild Duck, Peer Gynt, and An Enemy of the People?

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Which famous nineteenth-century Scandinavian playwright wrote A Doll’s House, The Wild Duck, Peer Gynt, and An Enemy of the People?

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Which tragedy by the Greek playwright Euripides features the story of Jason’s wife, a woman who is abandoned for a Corinthian princess and subsequently seeks a bloody revenge?

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Which tragedy by the Greek playwright Euripides features the story of Jason’s wife, a woman who is abandoned for a Corinthian princess and subsequently seeks a bloody revenge?

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