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Name That Play III

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Introduction:
"Here's the third round of random plays throughout history. See how well you do with plays from Norway to the United States."


1. This 1935 verse drama (and 1952 movie) by T. S. Eliot follows archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Becket accepting martyrdom as he is killed by four knights on the order of Henry II. This is "Murder in the ___________".
    Church
    Chapel
    Cathedral
    Monastery


2. An alternate name for this 1601 Shakespeare work is "What You Will". Characters in this comedy are Viola, Sebastian, Orsino, Olivia, and the steward Malvolio. Trite comic relief is provided by Sir Toby Belch and Sir Andrew Aguecheek.
    The Comedy of Errors
    Twelfth Night
    The Tempest
    As You Like It


3. This was the first and most successful play by Alexandre Dumas fils. It was made into 6 different movies, including a 1936 film with Greta Garbo, and recounts Parisian courtesan Marguerite Gautier and her unyielding, yet fruitless desire for her lover, Armand Duval.
    Under Milk Wood
    She Stoops to Conquer
    Camille
    Volpone


4. This Eugene O'Neill two-part drama circa 1928 tells the story of Nina Leeds as she experiences personal tragedy and sexual frustration with the three main men in her life: her vain father, her loveless husband, and her eventually dead lover.
    The Lower Depths
    Mother Courage
    Strange Interlude
    The School for Scandal


5. This tragedy by J. M. Synge tells about Christy Mahon, a man who becomes a young hero when he claims to have killed his father, only to have his father return. The play ends with the villagers turning on the young hero. This is "The Playboy of the _________
_________".
    Lower Depths
    Grecian Times
    Western World
    Modern Europe


6. This Henrik Ibsen work is about architect Halvard Solness as he cheats on his invalid wife, Aline, with a younger woman whom he knew earlier in his life named Hilde Wanger. The play's final act has Halvard climbing the tallest structure he has designed to show his love for Hilde, but he falls off and dies on his way up.
    Endgame
    Life Is a Dream
    The Master Builder
    Heartbreak House


7. This 1939 work was the most famous for playwright Bertolt Brecht. Along with her mute daughter and two sons, the heroine in this play follows the army and sees all her children taken away from her one by one, only for the heroine to keep following the army, despite her lost loved ones.
    Mourning Becomes Electra
    A Dream Play
    Saint Joan
    Mother Courage


8. This play by Irish-born playwright Samuel Beckett was written in French and then translated into English by Beckett himself. The story is about two street thugs, Vladimir and Estragon, who recount their troubles in life on a street corner, with absolutely no action going on around them.
    The Little Foxes
    The Winter's Tale
    Waiting for Godot
    All's Well That Ends Well


9. This 1900 work by Swedish playwright August Strindberg follows a literal "battle of the sexes" between Edgar and his wife, Alice, which begins with the two moving to a remote island off the coast of Sweden and Alice flirting with her cousin, Kurt. The play ends with Alice getting her wish that Edgar would die, only to have Alice think she loved Edgar all along.
    The Cherry Orchard
    The Dance of Death
    The Rivals
    Look Back in Anger


10. This Shakespeare tragedy was written in 1606 (later published in 1623) and tells the story of a villain-hero who feels his own guilt in life and is convinced into murdering King Duncan by his wife.
    Hamlet
    King Lear
    Macbeth
    Othello


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