Due Monday, March 1

Finish Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.

Drama Test Study Guide


Works covered: Oedipus, Hamlet, Tartuffe, A Doll’s House, Death of a Salesman, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead

 Authors of all of the plays
 All character names (correct spelling preferred—or at least close)

 Drama Terms
o aside, soliloquy, monologue, dramatic irony

 Greek Drama Terms, development of, and general knowledge
o Hubris, harmartia, peripeteia, epiphany, catharsis, stichomythia
o Aristotle and Aristotelian Unities (Time, location, plot)
o Thespis, Aeschylus, Sophocles

 Shakespearean Drama Terms and general knowledge
o Groundlings foil

Test format:

90 Questions (Mostly fill in the blank)

 20 True/False Questions
 5 even timeline questions for each play
 Quotations identification
 Term identification

Oedipus Chronology
Check out Carly's cool Doll House Chronology


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Due Monday, March 1

Finish Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.

Due Thursday, 2/25

Read Act I of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead.

Due 2/17

Death of a Salesman Act I

Due Friday, February 12

Finish reading a Doll's House.

Then, choose from Nora, Helmer, Rank, Krogstand, or Kristine and write a 1 1/2 to 2 page character analysis. Consider internal conflicts, motivations, desires, psychoanalysis...

Make sure to use direct quotations from the text to support your ideas.

Due 2/10

Read Act I and pertaining background information for A Doll House.

Due 2/8

Finish reading Tartuffe.

Due Thursday, 2/4

Read Acts I and II of Tartuffe paying careful attention to satire. Before you read the play, please read the background information immediately preceding it on French Neoclassical theater. You may also want to make note any thematic parallels to the two other plays we have read so far.