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Keerthi's and Kristy's Literature guide to plays
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| “The Cherry Orchard” by Anton Chekhov | Aristocratic Russian landowner Ranevsky returns to her family estate, which includes a cherry orchard, before it is auctioned to pay the mortgage. |
| “The Cherry Orchard” by Anton Chekhov | characters: Lyuba Ranevsky, Lopakhin, Gayev, Anya, Trofirmov key points: The play ends with the sound of axes as the cherry orchard is chopped down |
| “The Crucible” by Arthur Miller | During the Salem Witch Trials, John Proctor, along with many other members of his town, is convicted of witchcraft and hanged characters: John + Elizabeth Proctor, Abigail Williams, Reverend Hale |
| “Death of a Salesman” by Arthur Miller | Traveling salesman Willy Loman is dissatisfied with his life and kills himself by wrecking his vehicle, leaving his family $20,000 in insurance money characters: Willy Loman, Biff + Happy Loman (his sons), Linda Loman (his wife) |
| “A Doll’s House” by Henrik Ibsen | Nora Helmer is blackmailed by her husband’s co-worker, a banker named Niels Krogstad. notes: Torvald calls Nora nicknames like, “little lark” and “little squirrel” |
| “A Doll’s House” by Henrik Ibsen | characters: Nora Helmer, Torvald Helmer, Krogstand, Christine Lind, Dr. Rank key points: The play ends with the door slamming shut as (spoiler alert!) Nora walks out on Torvald |
| “Fences” by August Wilson | Part of Wilson’s ten-part Pittsburgh Cycle; follows Troy Maxon, a garbage collector and patriarch, who impregnates a woman he had an affair with characters: Troy Maxon, Rose Lee Maxon, Jim Bono, Cory Maxon, Alberta, Raynell |
| “The Glass Menagerie” by Tennessee Williams | Told from the memories of aspiring poet Tom Wingfield regarding his sister Laura, who has a limp from an illness and keeps glass animals |
| “The Glass Menagerie” by Tennessee Williams | characters: Tom, Amanda, + Laura Wingfield; Jim O’Connor key points: Jim breaks Laura’s glass unicorn, knocking off its horn |
| “The Importance of Being Earnest” by Oscar Wilde | Jack Worthing pretends his name is “Ernest” in order to impress his friend Algernon’s cousin, Gwendolyn Fairfax |
| “The Importance of Being Earnest” by Oscar Wilde | characters: Jack Worthing, Cecily Cardew, Algernon, Gwendolyn Fairfax, Lady Bracknell notes: Algernon invents a fictional friend called “Bunbury,” whom he uses to escape various social situations (can you tell this is peak British comedy?) |
| “The Iceman Cometh” by Eugene O’Neill | Set in Greenwich Village, New York in Harry Hope’s saloon, a bunch of alcoholics maintain their pipe dreams and make plans to do nothing characters: Harry Hope, Theodore Hickman (“Hickey”), Larry Slade, Don Parritt, Rocky Pioggi |
| “Long Day’s Journey Into Night” by Eugene O’Neill | In the Tyrone household, Mary is revealed to [still] be a morphine addict, while Edmund finds out he has tuberculosis |
| “Long Day’s Journey Into Night” by Eugene O’Neill | characters: Mary, James, Edmund, and Jamie Tyrone; Cathleen key points: Tyrone is so stingy that he wouldn’t pay for a good doctor to ease Mary’s childbirth pains, so he is partially blamed for her addiction to morphine |
| “No Exit” by John Paul Sartre | Three characters are stuck in hell, tortured by the company of each other characters: Joseph Garcin, Inez Serrano, Estelle Rigault, The Valet buzzwords: “Hell is other people” |
| “Oedipus Rex” by Sophocles | An Athenian tragedy about the doomed king Oedipus, who fulfills a prophecy about marrying his mother and killing his father notes: Oedipus also pops up briefly in Sophocles’ play “Antigone,” which picks up after Oedipus’ death |
| “Oedipus Rex” by Sophocles | characters: Oedipus, Tiresias (the prophet), Creon, Laius, Merope, Jocasta key points: Oedipus blinds himself after his mother Jocasta’s death by stabbing out his eyes with golden brooches from her dress +_+ |
| “Our Town” by Thornton Wilder | Set in Grover’s Corner, the Stage Manager narrates the sentimental story of George Gibbs’ and Emily Webb’s marriage |
| “Our Town” by Thornton Wilder | characters: Emily Webb, George Gibbs, Professor Willard, Simon Stimson key points: Emily dies in childbirth and bids farewell to ticking clocks, sunflowers, etc. in a monologue; George and Emily eat an ice cream soda at Morgan’s Drugstore |
| “Pygmalion” by George Bernard Shaw | A phonetics professor makes a bet with his friend that he can teach a Cockney flower girl, Eliza Doolittle, to speak properly and act like a member of high society characters: Henry Higgins, Colonel Pickering, Eliza Doolittle, Alfred Doolittle |
| “A Raisin in the Sun” by Lorraine Hansberry | A Black family living on the South side of Chicago, the Youngers, face financial problems due to their conflicting dreams buzzwords: Clybourne Park |
| “A Raisin in the Sun” by Lorraine Hansberry | characters: Walter Younger, Mama, Beneatha, Ruth, Willy Harris, Joseph Asagai key points: Joseph proposes to Beneatha at the end, and a son asks for fifty cents at the beginning of the play |
| “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead” by Tom Stoppard | Set in Shakespeare’s Hamlet, the play centers on the misadventures of the minor characters <title characters> |
| “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead” by Tom Stoppard | characters: Hamlet, The Player, Polonius, The Tragedians, Gertrude, Ophelia key points: At the beginning, the two men flip heads on a coin 92 times; at the end, they are ordered to death by the English king |
| “A Streetcar Named Desire” by Tennessee Williams | Southern belle Blanche Dubois loses her estate and moves into the apartment of her sister stella and her [awful] husband Stanley in New Orleans |
| “A Streetcar Named Desire” by Tennessee Williams | characters: Blanche Dubois, Stella Kowalski, Stanley Kowalski, Mitch Mitchell buzzwords: “I have always depended on the kindness of strangers”, Belle Reve |
| “Waiting for Godot” by Samuel Beckettt | Vladimir and Estragon wait for the titular Godot, who never arrives characters: Vladimir, Estragon, Pozzo, Lucky, notes: The play is subtitled “a tragicomedy in two acts.” |
| “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” by Edward Albee | George and Martha detail their bitter, complex marriage to Nick and Honey at a New Carthage University faculty party. |
| “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” by Edward Albee | characters: George, Martha, Nick, Honey (yeah that’s it) notes: The second act of the play is called, “Walpurgisnacht,” and for some reason, that pops up a lot on Protobowl. |
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