UGC NET (English ): 100 Questions & Answers of Unit I- Drama
UGC NET (English ): 100 Questions & Answers of Unit I- Drama
Unit – I: Drama
1. Who wrote the classical Greek tragedy Oedipus Rex? Sophocles.
Unit – I: Drama
1. Who wrote the classical Greek tragedy Oedipus Rex? Sophocles.
2. What is the term for the tragic flaw or error in judgment in a protagonist? Hamartia.
3. Which Greek philosopher wrote Poetics, defining the elements of drama and tragedy? Aristotle.
4. What term describes the purgation of emotions of pity and fear in a tragedy? Catharsis.
5. Who is the author of the Elizabethan revenge tragedy The Spanish Tragedy? Thomas Kyd.
6. Which Roman playwright wrote comedies like The Brothers (Adelphoe) that influenced Renaissance drama? Terence.
7. What is the name of the oldest surviving English morality play? The Castle of Perseverance.
8. Which morality play features characters representing abstract qualities like Everyman and Death? Everyman.
9. In Christopher Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus, what is the name of the scholar's servant? Wagner.
10. Who wrote the Jacobean tragedy The Duchess of Malfi? John Webster.
11. Which Ben Jonson play popularized the 'comedy of humours'? Every Man in His Humour.
12. What structure in a classical tragedy represents the turning point or change in fortune? Peripeteia.
13. What term refers to the moment of tragic recognition or discovery in a drama? Anagnorisis.
14. Who wrote the Renaissance comedy Volpone? Ben Jonson.
15. Which William Shakespeare play features the character of the melancholy prince, Hamlet? Hamlet.
16. What is the genre of Shakespeare's The Tempest? Romance (or Tragicomedy).
17. Who wrote the Restoration comedy of manners The Country Wife? William Wycherley.
18. Which Restoration playwright wrote The Way of the World? William Congreve.
19. What subgenre of drama emerged during the Restoration featuring witty dialogue and social intrigue regarding love and marriage? Comedy of Manners.
20. Who authored the 18th-century sentimental comedy The Conscious Lovers? Richard Steele.
21. Which playwright wrote the anti-sentimental comedy She Stoops to Conquer? Oliver Goldsmith
22. What 18th-century theatrical subgenre featured excessive emotion and stark moral polarization between good and evil? Melodrama.
23. Who wrote the late 19th-century drawing-room comedies Lady Windermere's Fan and The Importance of Being Earnest? Oscar Wilde.
24. Which Irish playwright wrote the realist problem play Widowers' Houses? George Bernard Shaw.
25. What is the term for a play that addresses social issues and debates contemporary controversies, popularized by Henrik Ibsen and Shaw? Problem Play.
26. Who wrote the Norwegian realist masterpiece A Doll's House? Henrik Ibsen.
27. Which Swedish dramatist is known for naturalistic psychological plays like Miss Julie? August Strindberg.
28. What Anton Chekhov play features the impending destruction of a cherry orchard? The Cherry Orchard.
29. Who wrote the Irish Renaissance play Riders to the Sea? John Millington Synge.
30. Which Irish playwright wrote the absurdist-leaning early play Waiting for Godot? Samuel Beckett.
31. What literary and theatrical movement rejects traditional plotting and rational dialogue to highlight human existential isolation, associated with Beckett and Ionesco? Theatre of the Absurd.
32. Who wrote the American expressionist tragedy Death of a Salesman? Arthur Miller.
33. Which American playwright wrote A Streetcar Named Desire? Tennessee Williams.
34. Who wrote the mid-20th-century absurdist tragicomedy The Bald Soprano? Eugène Ionesco.
35. Which British playwright wrote the 'kitchen sink drama' Look Back in Anger? John Osborne.
36. What is the term for post-World War II British realist drama depicting working-class domestic life and social frustration? Kitchen Sink Realism.
37. Who wrote the 20th-century epic theatre masterpiece Mother Courage and Her Children? Bertolt Brecht.
38. What theatrical technique did Brecht use to prevent emotional audience identification and encourage critical intellectual engagement? Verfremdungseffekt (Alienation Effect).
39. Who authored the post-colonial Nigerian drama Death and the King's Horseman? Wole Soyinka.
40. Which South African playwright collaborated with actors to create anti-apartheid protest plays like Sizwe Bansi Is Dead? Athol Fugard.
41. Who wrote the groundbreaking African American drama A Raisin in the Sun? Lorraine Hansberry.
42. Which American playwright wrote Fences as part of his Pittsburgh Cycle chronicling the African American experience? August Wilson.
43. Who wrote the modern absurdist tragicomedy Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead? Tom Stoppard.
44. What term describes a dramatic monologue where a character expresses the inner thoughts aloud alone on stage? Soliloquy.
45. What device is used when a character speaks directly to the audience, unheard by other characters on stage? Aside.
46. Who wrote the Jacobean tragedy The Changeling? Thomas Middleton and William Rowley.
47. Which Elizabethan playwright wrote the tragedy The Jew of Malta? Christopher Marlowe.
48. What is the designation for a play written in verse, common in the Elizabethan and Jacobean eras? Verse Drama.
49. Who wrote the classic Roman tragedies that heavily influenced Elizabethan revenge drama, such as Thyestes? Seneca.
50. What is the name of the open-air Elizabethan theatre where many of Shakespeare's plays were first performed? The Globe Theatre.
51. What term refers to the introductory speech preceding a dramatic performance? Prologue.
52. What speech concludes a play, often delivered by an actor asking for the audience's approval? Epilogue.
53. Who wrote the Jacobean tragedy The White Devil? John Webster.
54. Which English Restoration playwright adapted Shakespeare's plays, including a notorious tragic version of King Lear with a happy ending? Nahum Tate.
55. What 18th-century English theatrical genre combined spoken dialogue with popular satirical songs? Ballad Opera (e.g., John Gay's The Beggar's Opera).
56. Who wrote The Beggar's Opera? John Gay.
57. What 19th-century dramatic form featured musical accompaniment to heighten emotional moments without spoken dialogue (or minimal dialogue)? Melodrama.
58. Who wrote The Lady of the Camellias (La Dame aux Camélias)? Alexandre Dumas.
59. What formulaic 19th-century theatrical structure relies on tight plotting, hidden secrets, and neat resolutions, popularized by Eugène Scribe? The Well-Made Play (Pièce bien faite).
60. Which Irish playwright wrote Pygmalion, later adapted into the musical My Fair Lady? George Bernard Shaw.
61. Who wrote the symbolic and poetic Irish play The Playboy of the Western World? John Millington Synge.
62. What Anton Chekhov's play features the frustrated physician and landowner Uncle Vanya? Uncle Vanya.
63. Who wrote the early 20th-century expressionist play The Hairy Ape? Eugene O'Neill.
64. Which American playwright wrote the expressionist drama Long Day's Journey into Night? Eugene O'Neill.
65. What structural component of Greek drama represents the entry song of the chorus? Parodos.
66. What structural component of Greek drama represents the final ode sung by the chorus as they exit? Exodos (or Exode)
67. Who wrote the ancient Greek anti-war comedy Lysistrata? Aristophanes.
68. Which ancient Greek playwright wrote the Oresteia Trilogy? Aeschylus.
69. What type of ancient Greek play mocked high-status figures and myth using a chorus of satyrs? Satyr Play.
70. Who wrote the Roman comedy The Pot of Gold (Aulularia)? Plautus.
71. What term refers to the elevated platform or stage used in medieval mystery cycles? Pageant Wagon.
72. Which medieval cycle of plays features biblical history from creation to doomsday? Mystery Plays (or Corpus Christi plays).
73. What is the term for medieval plays that dramatized the lives and martyrdoms of saints? Miracle Plays.
74. Who wrote the 16th-century English Tudor comedy Ralph Roister Doister, often considered the first English comedy? Nicholas Udall.
75. What is the first known English tragedy in blank verse, written by Thomas Norton and Thomas Sackville? Gorboduc (or Ferrex and Porrex).
76. Who wrote the Elizabethan comedy Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay? Robert Greene.
77. Who wrote The Shoemaker's Holiday ? Thomas Dekker
78. Who wrote the Jacobean city comedy A Trick to Catch the Old One? Thomas Middleton.
79. What Restoration subgenre focused sharply on the pretentious manners and sexual intrigues of high society? Comedy of Manners.
80. Who wrote the Restoration tragedy All for Love, an adaptation of Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra? John Dryden.
81. Which 18th-century dramatist wrote the satirical farce The Critic? Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
82. What style of late 19th-century drama sought to depict life accurately without idealization, closely aligned with scientific objectivity? Naturalism.
83. Which Irish playwright wrote the political allegory The Plough and the Stars? Seán O'Casey.
84. Who wrote the modernist American play The Glass Menagerie? Tennessee Williams.
85. Which absurdist play features two tramps waiting next to a bare tree for an enigmatic figure? Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett.
86. Who wrote the landmark post-war British play The Homecoming? Harold Pinter.
87. What term describes a style of Pinteresque drama characterized by menacing silences, ambiguous motivations, and ordinary settings turning threatening? Comedy of Menace (associated with David Campton and often applied to early Pinter).
88. Who wrote the landmark postmodern play Top Girls? Caryl Churchill.
89. Which contemporary British playwright wrote Blasted and pioneered 'in-yer-face theatre'? Sarah Kane.
90. What term characterizes the aggressive, provocative, and shocking British drama of the 1990s? In-Yer-Face Theatre .
91. Who wrote the post-colonial Caribbean drama Dream on Monkey Mountain? Derek Walcott.
92. Which Indian English playwright wrote Tughlaq? Girish Karnad.
93. Who wrote the feminist Indian English play Dance Like a Man? Mahesh Dattani.
94. What classical Sanskrit treatise attributed to Bharata Muni outlines the theory of drama, acting, and aesthetics (Rasa)? Natya Shastra.
95. What term in Sanskrit poetics denotes the emotional flavor or aesthetic relish experienced by the audience? Rasa.
96. What term in the Natya Shastra refers to the physical or psychological determinants that evoke an emotional response? Bhava.
97. Who wrote the classical Sanskrit play Abhijnanashakuntalam (The Recognition of Shakuntala)? Kalidasa.
98. What classical Sanskrit play features the tragic love story of Charudatta and Vasantasena? Mruchchakatika (The Little Clay Cart) by Shudraka.
99. What genre of Japanese traditional drama utilizes masks, highly stylized dance, and chant, originating in the 14th century? Noh (or Nō).
100. What form of traditional Japanese popular theatre features elaborate makeup, exaggerated acting, and dynamic staging? Kabuki.
5. Who is the author of the Elizabethan revenge tragedy The Spanish Tragedy? Thomas Kyd.
6. Which Roman playwright wrote comedies like The Brothers (Adelphoe) that influenced Renaissance drama? Terence.
7. What is the name of the oldest surviving English morality play? The Castle of Perseverance.
8. Which morality play features characters representing abstract qualities like Everyman and Death? Everyman.
9. In Christopher Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus, what is the name of the scholar's servant? Wagner.
10. Who wrote the Jacobean tragedy The Duchess of Malfi? John Webster.
11. Which Ben Jonson play popularized the 'comedy of humours'? Every Man in His Humour.
12. What structure in a classical tragedy represents the turning point or change in fortune? Peripeteia.
13. What term refers to the moment of tragic recognition or discovery in a drama? Anagnorisis.
14. Who wrote the Renaissance comedy Volpone? Ben Jonson.
15. Which William Shakespeare play features the character of the melancholy prince, Hamlet? Hamlet.
16. What is the genre of Shakespeare's The Tempest? Romance (or Tragicomedy).
17. Who wrote the Restoration comedy of manners The Country Wife? William Wycherley.
18. Which Restoration playwright wrote The Way of the World? William Congreve.
19. What subgenre of drama emerged during the Restoration featuring witty dialogue and social intrigue regarding love and marriage? Comedy of Manners.
20. Who authored the 18th-century sentimental comedy The Conscious Lovers? Richard Steele.
21. Which playwright wrote the anti-sentimental comedy She Stoops to Conquer? Oliver Goldsmith
22. What 18th-century theatrical subgenre featured excessive emotion and stark moral polarization between good and evil? Melodrama.
23. Who wrote the late 19th-century drawing-room comedies Lady Windermere's Fan and The Importance of Being Earnest? Oscar Wilde.
24. Which Irish playwright wrote the realist problem play Widowers' Houses? George Bernard Shaw.
25. What is the term for a play that addresses social issues and debates contemporary controversies, popularized by Henrik Ibsen and Shaw? Problem Play.
26. Who wrote the Norwegian realist masterpiece A Doll's House? Henrik Ibsen.
27. Which Swedish dramatist is known for naturalistic psychological plays like Miss Julie? August Strindberg.
28. What Anton Chekhov play features the impending destruction of a cherry orchard? The Cherry Orchard.
29. Who wrote the Irish Renaissance play Riders to the Sea? John Millington Synge.
30. Which Irish playwright wrote the absurdist-leaning early play Waiting for Godot? Samuel Beckett.
31. What literary and theatrical movement rejects traditional plotting and rational dialogue to highlight human existential isolation, associated with Beckett and Ionesco? Theatre of the Absurd.
32. Who wrote the American expressionist tragedy Death of a Salesman? Arthur Miller.
33. Which American playwright wrote A Streetcar Named Desire? Tennessee Williams.
34. Who wrote the mid-20th-century absurdist tragicomedy The Bald Soprano? Eugène Ionesco.
35. Which British playwright wrote the 'kitchen sink drama' Look Back in Anger? John Osborne.
36. What is the term for post-World War II British realist drama depicting working-class domestic life and social frustration? Kitchen Sink Realism.
37. Who wrote the 20th-century epic theatre masterpiece Mother Courage and Her Children? Bertolt Brecht.
38. What theatrical technique did Brecht use to prevent emotional audience identification and encourage critical intellectual engagement? Verfremdungseffekt (Alienation Effect).
39. Who authored the post-colonial Nigerian drama Death and the King's Horseman? Wole Soyinka.
40. Which South African playwright collaborated with actors to create anti-apartheid protest plays like Sizwe Bansi Is Dead? Athol Fugard.
41. Who wrote the groundbreaking African American drama A Raisin in the Sun? Lorraine Hansberry.
42. Which American playwright wrote Fences as part of his Pittsburgh Cycle chronicling the African American experience? August Wilson.
43. Who wrote the modern absurdist tragicomedy Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead? Tom Stoppard.
44. What term describes a dramatic monologue where a character expresses the inner thoughts aloud alone on stage? Soliloquy.
45. What device is used when a character speaks directly to the audience, unheard by other characters on stage? Aside.
46. Who wrote the Jacobean tragedy The Changeling? Thomas Middleton and William Rowley.
47. Which Elizabethan playwright wrote the tragedy The Jew of Malta? Christopher Marlowe.
48. What is the designation for a play written in verse, common in the Elizabethan and Jacobean eras? Verse Drama.
49. Who wrote the classic Roman tragedies that heavily influenced Elizabethan revenge drama, such as Thyestes? Seneca.
50. What is the name of the open-air Elizabethan theatre where many of Shakespeare's plays were first performed? The Globe Theatre.
51. What term refers to the introductory speech preceding a dramatic performance? Prologue.
52. What speech concludes a play, often delivered by an actor asking for the audience's approval? Epilogue.
53. Who wrote the Jacobean tragedy The White Devil? John Webster.
54. Which English Restoration playwright adapted Shakespeare's plays, including a notorious tragic version of King Lear with a happy ending? Nahum Tate.
55. What 18th-century English theatrical genre combined spoken dialogue with popular satirical songs? Ballad Opera (e.g., John Gay's The Beggar's Opera).
56. Who wrote The Beggar's Opera? John Gay.
57. What 19th-century dramatic form featured musical accompaniment to heighten emotional moments without spoken dialogue (or minimal dialogue)? Melodrama.
58. Who wrote The Lady of the Camellias (La Dame aux Camélias)? Alexandre Dumas.
59. What formulaic 19th-century theatrical structure relies on tight plotting, hidden secrets, and neat resolutions, popularized by Eugène Scribe? The Well-Made Play (Pièce bien faite).
60. Which Irish playwright wrote Pygmalion, later adapted into the musical My Fair Lady? George Bernard Shaw.
61. Who wrote the symbolic and poetic Irish play The Playboy of the Western World? John Millington Synge.
62. What Anton Chekhov's play features the frustrated physician and landowner Uncle Vanya? Uncle Vanya.
63. Who wrote the early 20th-century expressionist play The Hairy Ape? Eugene O'Neill.
64. Which American playwright wrote the expressionist drama Long Day's Journey into Night? Eugene O'Neill.
65. What structural component of Greek drama represents the entry song of the chorus? Parodos.
66. What structural component of Greek drama represents the final ode sung by the chorus as they exit? Exodos (or Exode)
67. Who wrote the ancient Greek anti-war comedy Lysistrata? Aristophanes.
68. Which ancient Greek playwright wrote the Oresteia Trilogy? Aeschylus.
69. What type of ancient Greek play mocked high-status figures and myth using a chorus of satyrs? Satyr Play.
70. Who wrote the Roman comedy The Pot of Gold (Aulularia)? Plautus.
71. What term refers to the elevated platform or stage used in medieval mystery cycles? Pageant Wagon.
72. Which medieval cycle of plays features biblical history from creation to doomsday? Mystery Plays (or Corpus Christi plays).
73. What is the term for medieval plays that dramatized the lives and martyrdoms of saints? Miracle Plays.
74. Who wrote the 16th-century English Tudor comedy Ralph Roister Doister, often considered the first English comedy? Nicholas Udall.
75. What is the first known English tragedy in blank verse, written by Thomas Norton and Thomas Sackville? Gorboduc (or Ferrex and Porrex).
76. Who wrote the Elizabethan comedy Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay? Robert Greene.
77. Who wrote The Shoemaker's Holiday ? Thomas Dekker
78. Who wrote the Jacobean city comedy A Trick to Catch the Old One? Thomas Middleton.
79. What Restoration subgenre focused sharply on the pretentious manners and sexual intrigues of high society? Comedy of Manners.
80. Who wrote the Restoration tragedy All for Love, an adaptation of Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra? John Dryden.
81. Which 18th-century dramatist wrote the satirical farce The Critic? Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
82. What style of late 19th-century drama sought to depict life accurately without idealization, closely aligned with scientific objectivity? Naturalism.
83. Which Irish playwright wrote the political allegory The Plough and the Stars? Seán O'Casey.
84. Who wrote the modernist American play The Glass Menagerie? Tennessee Williams.
85. Which absurdist play features two tramps waiting next to a bare tree for an enigmatic figure? Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett.
86. Who wrote the landmark post-war British play The Homecoming? Harold Pinter.
87. What term describes a style of Pinteresque drama characterized by menacing silences, ambiguous motivations, and ordinary settings turning threatening? Comedy of Menace (associated with David Campton and often applied to early Pinter).
88. Who wrote the landmark postmodern play Top Girls? Caryl Churchill.
89. Which contemporary British playwright wrote Blasted and pioneered 'in-yer-face theatre'? Sarah Kane.
90. What term characterizes the aggressive, provocative, and shocking British drama of the 1990s? In-Yer-Face Theatre .
91. Who wrote the post-colonial Caribbean drama Dream on Monkey Mountain? Derek Walcott.
92. Which Indian English playwright wrote Tughlaq? Girish Karnad.
93. Who wrote the feminist Indian English play Dance Like a Man? Mahesh Dattani.
94. What classical Sanskrit treatise attributed to Bharata Muni outlines the theory of drama, acting, and aesthetics (Rasa)? Natya Shastra.
95. What term in Sanskrit poetics denotes the emotional flavor or aesthetic relish experienced by the audience? Rasa.
96. What term in the Natya Shastra refers to the physical or psychological determinants that evoke an emotional response? Bhava.
97. Who wrote the classical Sanskrit play Abhijnanashakuntalam (The Recognition of Shakuntala)? Kalidasa.
98. What classical Sanskrit play features the tragic love story of Charudatta and Vasantasena? Mruchchakatika (The Little Clay Cart) by Shudraka.
99. What genre of Japanese traditional drama utilizes masks, highly stylized dance, and chant, originating in the 14th century? Noh (or Nō).
100. What form of traditional Japanese popular theatre features elaborate makeup, exaggerated acting, and dynamic staging? Kabuki.