Famous Playwrights
Instructions: From Shakespeare to Arthur Miller, how well do you know the masters of the stage?
- 1.
Which playwright wrote 'Death of a Salesman' and 'The Crucible'?
ATennessee WilliamsBArthur MillerCEdward AlbeeDEugene O'Neill - 2.
Tennessee Williams is best known for which play about a faded Southern belle?
AA Streetcar Named DesireBCat on a Hot Tin RoofCOur TownDThe Glass Menagerie - 3.
How many plays are attributed to William Shakespeare?
AAbout 25BAbout 37CAbout 50DAbout 65 - 4.
Which Norwegian playwright wrote 'A Doll's House' and 'Hedda Gabler'?
AAnton ChekhovBAugust StrindbergCHenrik IbsenDBertolt Brecht - 5.
Which Russian playwright wrote 'The Cherry Orchard' and 'Three Sisters'?
ANikolai GogolBMaxim GorkyCAnton ChekhovDLeo Tolstoy - 6.
Who wrote 'Waiting for Godot,' a landmark of absurdist theater?
AJean-Paul SartreBHarold PinterCEugène IonescoDSamuel Beckett - 7.
Which ancient Greek playwright wrote 'Oedipus Rex' and 'Antigone'?
AAeschylusBEuripidesCAristophanesDSophocles - 8.
Oscar Wilde wrote which witty comedy about mistaken identities and the name Ernest?
AThe Importance of Being EarnestBAn Ideal HusbandCA Woman of No ImportanceDLady Windermere's Fan - 9.
Which German playwright developed 'epic theater' and wrote 'The Threepenny Opera'?
AFriedrich SchillerBBertolt BrechtCGerhart HauptmannDGeorg Büchner - 10.
Eugene O'Neill, America's first great playwright, won how many Pulitzer Prizes for Drama?
ATwoBThreeCFourDFive - 11.
Which French playwright wrote 'Tartuffe' and 'The Misanthrope' in the 17th century?
AVoltaireBJean RacineCMolièreDPierre Corneille - 12.
Which playwright wrote 'A Raisin in the Sun,' the first play by a Black woman produced on Broadway?
AToni MorrisonBLorraine HansberryCAlice WalkerDMaya Angelou - 13.
Which Shakespeare play features the line 'To be, or not to be, that is the question'?
AMacbethBKing LearCOthelloDHamlet - 14.
Which Irish playwright wrote 'Pygmalion,' later adapted into the musical 'My Fair Lady'?
ASean O'CaseyBOscar WildeCGeorge Bernard ShawDSamuel Beckett - 15.
Which playwright created 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?'
ADavid MametBHarold PinterCTom StoppardDEdward Albee