Identification Of British Plays After 1660

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Famous comedies from the era include William Wycherley's The Country Wife (1675), Aphra Behn's The Rover (1677), and George Farquhar's The Recruiting Officer (1706). Well-known Restoration tragedies include Roger Boyle's The Black Prince (1667) and Thomas Otway's Venice Preserv'd (1682).

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Determine the title and author of this passage based on its content and style. “But I can"t stand saying one thing when everyone knows I mean another. What"s the use in such hypocrisy? If people arrange the world that way for women, there"s no good pretending it’s arranged the other way . . .”

The Maids by Jean Genet Mrs. Warren’s Profession by George Bernard Shaw An Inspector Calls by J. B. Priestly Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw Educating Rita by Willy Russel

Identify the author and title of the excerpt. "The great secret, Eliza, is not having bad manners or good manners or any other particular sort of manners, but having the same manner for all human souls: in short, behaving as if were in Heaven, where there are no third-class carriages, and one soul is as good as another.”

Arcadia by Tom Stoppard An Ideal Husband, Oscar Wilde Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw The Maids by Jean Genet Mrs. Warren’s Profession by George Bernard Shaw

“True, "tis an unhappy circumstance of life that love should ever die before us, and that the man so often should outlive the lover. But say what you will, "tis better to be left than never to have been loved. To pass our youth in dull indifference, to refuse the sweets of life because they once must leave us, is as preposterous as to wish to have been born old, because we one day must be old. For my part, my youth may wear and waste, but it shall never rust in my possession.” Identify the title of the work from which the passage is adapted.

The Alchemist The Way of the World As You Like It The Tempest Doctor Faustus

“How you can sit there, calmly eating muffins when we are in this horrible trouble, I can’t make out. You seem to me to be perfectly heartless.""Well, I can’t eat muffins in an agitated manner. The butter would probably get on my cuffs. One should always eat muffins quite calmly. It is the only way to eat them.""I say it’s perfectly heartless your eating muffins at all, under the circumstances.” Identify the title and author of the passage.

Blithe Spirit by Noel Coward Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett The Way of the World by William Congreve The Dumb Waiter by Harold Pinter The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde

"You silly Arthur! If you knew anything about . . . anything, which you don"t, you would know that I adore you. Everyone in London knows it except you. It is a public scandal the way I adore you. I have been going about for the last six months telling the whole of society that I adore you. I wonder you consent to have anything to say to me. I have no character left at all. At least, I feel so happy that I am quite sure I have no character left at all.” Identify the title and author of the excerpt based on the content and style of the writing.

Amadeus by Peter Shaffer The Way of the World by William Congreve An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde An Inspector Calls by J. B. Priestly A Man for All Seasons by Robert Bolt

This play"s title is taken from a line in Shelley"s poem "To a Skylark."

The Royal Hunt of the Sun by Peter Shaffer Night Must Fall by Emlyn Williams Love on the Dole by Ronald Gow Long Day’s Journey into Night by Eugene O'Neill Blithe Spirit by Noel Coward

What play centers on two hit-men, Ben and Gus, who are awaiting their next assignment in a windowless basement?

Underground Lovers by Jean Tardieu The Balcony by Jean Genet Endgame by Samuel Beckett No Exit by Jean-Paul-Sartre The Dumb Waiter by Harold Pinter

This play switches back and forth between the year 1809 and the present. Some of the main characters include Thomasina Coverly, Septimus Hodge, Hannah Jarvis, and Bernard Nightingale.

Translations by Brian Friel Ashes to Ashes by Harold Pinter Narrow Road to the Deep North by Edward Bond Chips with Everything by Arnold Wesker Arcadia by Tom Stoppard

The Common Man, Sir Thomas More, and Thomas Cromwell are characters in which of the following plays?

The Way of the World by William Congreve The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams Arcadia by Tom Stoppard A Man for All Seasons by Robert Bolt Long Day’s Journey Into Night by Eugene O’Neill

Anthonio Salieri, Constanze Weber, and Emperor Joseph II are characters from which of the following plays?

Blithe Spirit by Noel Coward Saint Joan by George Bernard Shaw Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde Amadeus by Peter Shaffer

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