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| At the end of _____________, the only character left standing is Horatio |
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| Hamlet. In Shakespeare’s tragedy, after the death of the King, Hamlet Sr., the King’s brother Claudius seizes the throne and weds his brother’s widow, Gertrude. When Gertrude’s son Hamlet Jr. reappears in Denmark, the ghost of the dead King informs him that Claudius murdered him and is committing many other dastardly deeds. To make matters worse, Norway launches a hostile military takeover of Denmark. |
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| ______ tricks Othello into believing that his wife Desdemona is being unfaithful, so that Othello murders her for her alleged crimes. |
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| Iago. Othello’s trusted lieutenant and right-hand man, Iago shows no motive for wanting Desdemona dead-—but shows no remorse, either. |
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| ________ ____ ________ is about the feuding Montagues and Capulets. |
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| Romeo & Juliet. After surmounting many obstacles to be together, Romeo (of the Montague family) and Juliet (of the Capulet family) both end up committing suicide after learning of the other’s death (Juliet was at first wrongly considered dead, and then ended her life upon discovering Romeo lifeless). |
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| After misbelieving his youngest (and only well-behaved) daughter, ______ ______ leaves his fortune to his evil eldest two girls |
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| King Lear. In typical Shakespeare style, King Lear is promptly removed from the throne so his evil daughters can enjoy their newfound fortunes. The local Earl of Gloucester finds himself in a similar quandary, blind and with two evil sons. |
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| __________ murdered Julius Caesar. |
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| Brutus. Originally Caesar’s closest friend, Brutus struggles through Shakespeare’s (largely biographical) play over whether to remove the quasi-tyrannical Caesar from power, or spare the life of his friend. |
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| The author of A Doll’s House was ___________. |
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| Henrik Ibsen. Known for his uncanny ability to portray the inner-strength of the nineteenth-century woman, Ibsen’s other dramatic works include Ghosts and An Enemy of the People. |
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| The playwright ___________ wrote many farces, including The Doctor in Spite of Himself, Sganarelle, and George Dandin |
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| Jean Baptiste Moliere. Also an actor, director, and stage manager, this Frenchman wrote many amusing pieces for the pleasure of the court. Born in 1622, his comedies included The Learned Women, which poked fun at intellectuals, and the set The School for Husbands and The School for Wives. |
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| French dramatist _____________ wrote The Romancers and The Woman of Samaria |
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| Edmond Rostand. Most of Rostand’s plays are light, with no dark themes—-he reserved that for his poetry, like Cyrano de Bergerac. His story Chantecler was brought to the United States in 1910 |
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| _____________‘s play The Importance of Being Earnest debuted in 1905. |
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| Oscar Wilde. Full of paradoxical situations, Wilde’s other plays include Lady Windermere’s Fan, A Woman of No Importance, and An Ideal Husband. |
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| Author of Waiting for Godot, ______________ wrote his original scripts in French and them translated them himself into English. |
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| Samuel Beckett. Winner of the 1969 Nobel Prize for Literature, he also wrote the drama Endgame |
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| ______________ wrote many avant-garde plays, including The Bald Soprano. |
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| Eugene Ionesco. Much of his work delves into the absurdity of the proletariat and the bourgeois, including La Lecon, Les Chaises, and Rhinoceros |
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| Playwright Eugene O’Neill’s autobiographical work, ___ ______ _______ _________ into Night, was discovered after his death in manuscript form. |
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| A Long Day's Journey. Prior to his death, O’Neill won a Pulitzer Prize for Strange Interlude, about an infertile woman coming to terms with her sexuality, and wrote The Iceman Cometh in 1946 |
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| Tennessee Williams won a Pulitzer Prize for his 1947 play ____ ______________ _________ ________, about sisters Blanche and Stella |
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| A Streetcar Named Desire. Out of his over 70 plays, A Streetcar Named Desire and The Glass Menagerie stand out as two of his finest (and earliest) works. |
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| Cat On a Hot Tin Roof was written by _______________. |
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| Tennessee Williams. Among his many plays, Williams also wrote Night of the Iguana, The Milk Train Doesn’t Stop Here Any More, The Seven Descents of Myrtle, In the Bar of the Tokyo Hotel, and Small Craft Warnings |
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| In Greek theaters, the ground the actors stood on was called the _______________. |
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| Proscenium. The proscenium was elevated to help establish an upstage and downstage area for the audience. The background (traditionally three houses with three doors, and an entrance on either side) was called the skene, while the chorus stood in the orchestra |
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| _________ is a transparent fabric used as a drop in the theater to create special effects of lights or atmosphere. |
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| Scrim. It is sometimes also lit from the back so that you can see a silhouette. |
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