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Exploring the World of Drama

Test your knowledge of drama, its key figures, and notable works with this engaging quiz.

1 429 BCE) by ________ are among the supreme masterpieces of the art of drama.

2 Who played The Father in the movie Drama?

3 Who played Oedipus in the movie Drama?

4 Who played Vladimir in the movie Drama?

5 The two masks associated with drama represent the traditional generic division between comedy and ________.

6 What role did Nigel Stock play in the movie Drama?

7 In addition to Shakespeare, such authors as Christopher Marlowe, Thomas Middleton, and ________ were prominent playwrights during this period.

8 What role did Graham Crowden play in the movie Drama?

9 The enactment of drama in theatre, performed by ________ on a stage before an audience, presupposes collaborative modes of production and a collective form of reception.

10 Who played Pozzo in the movie Drama?

💡 Interesting Facts

  • Kordian, a romantic drama by one of Poland's Three Bards, Juliusz SÅ‚owacki, is a polemic with Dziady, an earlier work by another of the Three Bards, Adam Mickiewicz.
  • at age 19, Felix Barker became the youngest drama critic working on Fleet Street.
  • guest stars on The Greatest Show on Earth, an ABC circus drama in 1963–1964, included Lucille Ball, James Coburn and Edgar Bergen.
  • Empire, a 1962–1963 NBC Western dramatic series set on a New Mexico ranch, provided the first recurring role for future film star Ryan O'Neal.
  • William Fawcett, a character actor in B-films and television from 1946 to the early 1970s, held a Ph.D. from the University of Nebraska and was a drama professor at Michigan State University prior to the start of his acting career.
  • dramatic actor Alexander Ostuzhev, who completely lost his hearing in 1910, played leading roles at Maly Theatre for four more decades.
  • Robert Redford made one of his last guest-starring appearances in a television series in a 1963 episode of the ABC psychiatric drama Breaking Point.
  • Craig Stevens's CBS series, Mr. Broadway, featured Liza Minnelli in her first television dramatic role in the episode "Nightingale for Sale".