Question 1
Who wrote the tragedy about star-crossed lovers from the feuding Montague and Capulet families?
- William Shakespeare
- Christopher Marlowe
- Oscar Wilde
- Ben Jonson
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William Shakespeare
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Playwrights trivia quiz
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- Restoration
- Elizabethan
- Irish Drama
- Jacobean
- Absurdism
- Greek Tragedy
- American Drama
- American Theatre
- City Comedy
- Domestic Tragedy
- English Comedy
- Epic Theatre
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Question 2
Which ancient Athenian dramatist wrote the play in which a king unknowingly marries his mother?
- Euripides
- Sophocles
- Aristophanes
- Aeschylus
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Sophocles
Question 3
Which ancient Greek comic playwright wrote a satire in which women withhold sex to stop a war?
- Euripides
- Sophocles
- Aristophanes
- Aeschylus
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Aristophanes
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