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WorksheetsAdvanced Repertory Theatre (Quiz #4)
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 5mins
A 10th-century German nun who is credited as being the first female playwright. She wrote six plays in Latin about female characters who are converted to Christianity.
Plautus
Wendy Wasserstein
Hrosvitha
Lillian Hellman
An American composer of musical theatre and popular music. Biggest achievement was writing the music for Showboat.
David Henry Hwang
Terrance
Sophocles
Jerome Kern
An American playwright that is best known for writing The Children's Hour and The Little Foxes.
Wendy Wasserstein
David Henry Hwang
Jerome Kern
Lillian Hellman
An Italian playwright dramatist who won the Nobel Prize in Literature. Tragic farces are often seen as forerunners of the Theatre of the Absurd. Known for writing Six Characters in Search of an Author.
Moliere
Terence
Luigi Pirandello
Plautus
An American playwright, librettist, screenwriter that is best-known for writing the play was M Butterfly. Also wrote the books for Aida, Flower Drum Song, and Tarzan.
David Henry Hwang
Wendy Wasserstein
Jerome Kern
Lillian Hellman
A French playwright know for writing comedies such as Tartuffe, The Miser, and the Imaginary Invalid.
Moliere
Luigi Pirandello
Terence
Jerome Kern
A Roman playwright who wrote comedies including The Menaechmi, Pseudolus, & Miles Glorious.
Moliere
Plautus
Sophocles
Terence
A Greek playwright who wrote tragedies include Oedipus and Antigone.
Plautus
Terence
Moliere
Sophocles
A Roman playwright who wrote comedies including Eunuchus, Adelphoe (The Brothers), and Hecyra (the mother-in-law).
Terence
Plautus
Sophocles
Moliere
An American playwright that won the Tony Award for Best Play and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1989 for her play The Heidi Chronicles.
Luigi Pirandello
David Henry Hwang
Wendy Wasserstein
Jerome Kern
