Playwrights
Vocabulary
Plays
Characteristics
100

American playwright blacklisted during the Cold War

Who is Arthur Miller

100

A category of artistic composition, as in music or literature, characterized by similarities in form, style, or subject matter

What is a Genre?

100

A Dream Play

Strindberg

100

Period with new stagecraft approaches

Anti-realism

200

Wrote the only surviving trilogy

Who is Sophocles

200

A speech performed independently

What is a monologue?

200

Twelfth Night

Who is Shakespeare?

200

Most like contemporary 

Americana

300

A Swedish playwright associated with Anti-Realism

Who is Strindberg

300

A type of speech that ignores the other in a room and speaks directly to the audience

What is a soliloquy?

300

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Who is Tennessee Williams

300

Use of chorus and masks

Greek

400

Comedic Greek writer

Who is Aristophanes? 

400

The act of marking monologues and other literature with breath, punctuation, or notes.

What is scoring?

400

Death of a Salesman

Who is Arthur Miller?

400

Most successful time in drama for England

Elizabethan

500

Playwright during the 1950/60s known for Southern family drama

Who is Tennessee Williams

500

An acronym used for outlining acting strategies

What is GOTE?

500

Orestia Trilogy

Who is Sophocles?

500

Had themes following the American dream

Americana