Identification of World Plays After 1925

Practice Questions

GRE Subject Test: Literature in English › Identification of World Plays After 1925

Questions
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1

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

2

This Caribbean writer’s best known play is A Tempest, based on Shakespeare’s The Tempest and written with a postcolonial slant. Who is he?

3

This French playwright and champion of the Theatre of the Absurd movement was known for dramas including The Maids, The Balcony, and The Blacks.

4

This Nigerian poet and dramatist, the first African Nobel Prize in Literature laureate, is known for plays such as The Lion and the Jewel, Kongi’s Harvest, and Death and the King’s Horsemen.

5

The German playwright and poet Bertolt Brecht wrote which of the following important anti-war plays?

6

What Peruvian writer and Nobel laureate wrote the plays La Chunga; Pretty Eyes, Ugly Pictures; and The Madman of the Balconies?

7

One of Peru’s most important writers, this poet and playwright used works such as There Is No Happy Island and A Certain Tic Tac to highlight urban crime, poverty, lingering colonial influences, and conditions on the streets of Lima. Who is he?

8

Which avant-garde Romanian writer was a significant figure in the Theatre of the Absurd?

9

This Nobel Prize-winning Caribbean poet, author of Omeros and Sea Grapes, also wrote such plays as Dream on Monkey Mountain and The Capeman. Who is it?

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