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Playwrights, QB Nick
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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The Persians | Aeshcylus |
| Seven Against Thebes | Aeshcylus |
| The Oresteia | Aeshcylus |
| Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf | Edward Albee |
| The American Dream | Edward Albee |
| Three Tall Women | Edward Albee |
| The Waters of Babylon | John Arden |
| All Fall Down | John Arden |
| The Clouds | Aristophanes |
| The Wasps | Aristophanes |
| The Birds | Aristophanes |
| Lysistrata | Aristophanes |
| Peter Pan | John M. Barrie |
| What Every Woman Knows | John M. Barrie |
| Waiting for Godot | Samuel Beckett |
| Endgame | Samuel Beckett |
| Happy Days | Samuel Beckett |
| The Madness of King George 3 | Alan Bennett |
| Beyond the Fringe | Alan Bennett |
| Galileo | Bertolt Brecht |
| Mother Courage and Her Children. | Bertolt Brecht |
| The Good Person of Sezuan | Bertolt Brecht |
| RUR | Karel Capek |
| The Makropulos Affair | Karel Capek |
| The Cherry Orchard | Anton Chekov |
| Uncle Vanya | Anton Chekov |
| The Three Sisters | Anton Chekov |
| The Way of the World | William Congreve |
| Blithe Spirit | Noel Coward |
| Hay Fever | Noel Coward |
| Private Lives | Noel Coward |
| Murder in the Cathedral | T.S. Elliot |
| The Cocktail Party | T.S. Elliot |
| The Family Reunion | T.S. Elliot |
| Medea | Euripides |
| Electra (420 BC) | Euripides |
| Iphigenia in Tauris | Euripides |
| Faust | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| She Stoops to Conquer | Oliver Goldsmith |
| The Little Foxes | Lillian Hellman |
| Peer Gynt | Henrik Ibsen |
| A Doll's House | Henrik Ibsen |
| Hedda Gabler | Henrik Ibsen |
| Picnic | William Inge |
| Bus Stop | William Inge |
| Come Back Little Sheba | William Inge |
| My Son is a Splinded Driver | William Inge |
| Rhinoceros | Eugene Ionesco |
| The Bald Soprano | Eugene Ionesco |
| Volpone | Ben Johnson |
| The Alchemist | Ben Johnson |
| Every Man His Honor | Ben Johnson |
| Glengarry Glen Ross | David Mamet |
| American Buffalo | David Mamet |
| Tamburlaine The Great | Christopher Marlowe |
| Dr. Faustus | Christopher Marlowe |
| The Jew of Malta | Christopher Marlowe |
| All My Sons | Arthur Miller |
| Death of a Salesman | Arthur Miller |
| The Crucible | Arthur Miller |
| The Misfits | Arthur Miller |
| Tartuffe | Moliere( Jean-Babtiste Poquelin) |
| The Misanthrope | Moliere( Jean-Babtiste Poquelin) |
| The Plough and the Stars | Sean O'Casey |
| Juno and the Paycock | Sean O'Casey |
| Long Days Journey Into Night | Eugene O'Neill |
| The Hairy Ape | Eugene O'Neill |
| The Emperor Jones | Eugene O'Neill |
| Look Back in Anger | John Osborne |
| The Entertainer | John Osborne |
| Dejavu | John Osborne |
| The Birthday Party | Harold Pinter |
| The Caretaker | Harold Pinter |
| The Homecoming | Harold Pinter |
| Six Characters in Search of An Author | Luigi Pirandello |
| The Phaedra | Jean Racine |
| Berenice | Jean Racine |
| Cyrano de Bergerac | Edmon de Rostand |
| The Time of Your Life | William Saroyan |
| Amadeus | Peter Shaffer |
| Equus | Peter Shaffer |
| Lettuce and Lovage | Peter Shaffer |
| Driving Miss Daisy | Alfred Uhry |
| The Heidi Chronicles | Wendy Wasserstein |
| The Comedy of Errors | William Shakespeare |
| Hamlet | William Shakespeare |
| Love's Labour's Lost | William Shakespeare |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | William Shakespeare |
| The Merchant of Venice | William Shakespeare |
| As You Like It | William Shakespeare |
| The Tempest | William Shakespeare |
| All's Well That Ends Well | William Shakespeare |
| Much Ado About Nothing | William Shakespeare |
| Arms and the Man | George Bernard Shaw |
| Man and Superman | George Bernard Shaw |
| Pygmalion | George Bernard Shaw |
| The Tooth of Crime | Sam Sheperd |
| Fool For Love | Sam Sheperd |
| The States of Shock | Sam Sheperd |
| Buried Child | Sam Sheperd |
| Barefoot in the Park | Neil Simon |
| Lost in Yonkers | Neil Simon |
| The Odd Couple | Neil Simon |
| Antigone | Sophocles |
| Oedipus Rex | Sophocles |
| Electra | Sophocles |
| Rosencrantz and Gildenstern Are Dead | Tom Stoppard |
| The Real Inspector Hound | Tom Stoppard |
| The Contractor | David Storey |
| Home | David Storey |
| The Changing Room | David Storey |
| Cats | Andrew Llyod Weber |
| Phantom of the Opera | Andrew Llyod Weber |
| Les Miserables | Andrew Llyod Weber |
| The Importance of Being Earnest | Oscar Wilde |
| Lady Windermere's Fan | Oscar Wilde |
| Our Town | Thorton Wilder |
| The Skin of Our Teeth | Thorton Wilder |
| A Steetcar Named Desire | Tennessee Williams |
| Cat On A Hot Tin Roof | Tennessee Williams |
| The Glass Menagerie | Tennessee Williams |
| Fences | August Wilson |
| The Piano Lesson | August Wilson |
| The Country Wife | William Wycherly |
| The Plain Dealer | William Wycherly |
| The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds | Paul Zindel |
| Something Happened | Joseph Heller |
| God Knows | Josepfh Heller |
| Catch-22 | Josepfh Heller |
| Player Piano | Kurt Vonnegut Jr. |
| Breakfast of Champions | Kurt Vonnegut Jr. |
| Slaughter-house Five | Kurt Vonnegut Jr. |
| The Temple of My Familiar | Alice Walker |
| The Color Purple | Alice Walker |
| The House of the Seven Gables | Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| The House of Bernada Alba | Frederico Garcia Lorca |
| The House of Mirth | Edith Wharton |
| The Antichrist | Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzche |
| The Gay Science | Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzche |
| The Sun Also Rises | Ernest Hemingway |
| A Farewell to Arms | Ernest Hemingway |
| The Ransom of Red Chief | O. Henry |
| One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest | Ken Kesey |
| The Tin Drum | Gunter Grass |
| Crabwalk | Gunter Grass |
| Dog Years | Gunter Grass |
| Song of Hiawatha | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
| The secret Life of Walter Mitty | James Thurber |
| My Life and Hard Times | James Thurber |
| The Unicorn in the Garden | James Thurber |
| Cat and Mouse | Gunter Grass |
| The True-Born Englishman | Daniel Defoe |
| The Shortest Way with the Dessenters | Daniel Defoe |
| Robinson Crusoe | Daniel Defoe |
| The Decameron | Boccaccio |
| Darkness at Noon | Arthur Koestler |
| A Book of Verses | Edgar Lee Masters |
| Maximillian | Edgar Lee Masters |
| Spoon River Anthology | Edgar Lee Masters |
| Atlas Shrugged | Ayn Rand |
| Moby Dick | Herman Melville |
| Ode on a Grecian Urn | John Keats |
| The House of Mirth | Edith Wharton |
| The Bhagavad-Gita | Vyasa |
| Strange Interlude | Eugene O'Neill |
| A Study In Scarlet | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle |
| The Fountainhead | Ayn Rand |
| Alice's Adventures in Wonderland | Lewis Carroll |
| Great Expectations | Charles Dickens |
| The Age of Innocence | Edith Wharton |
| Madame Bovary | Gustave Flaubert |
| Kubla Kahn | Coleridge |
| Jane Erye | Charlotte Bronte |
| Death in Venice | Thomas Mann |
| Tender is the Night | F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| Who is the Protagonist of Tender is the Night | Dick Diver |
| The Count of Monte Cristo | Alexander Dumas |
| Frankenstein | Marry Shelley |
| Rape of the Lock | Alexander Pope |
| Anna Karenina | Leo Tolstoy |
| David Copperfeild | Charle Dickens |
| Pilgrim's Progress | John Bunyan |
| Crime and Punishment | Dostoyevsky |
| The Prince | Niccolo Machiavelli |
| Vanity Fair | William Makepeace Thaceray |
| The Faerie Queen | Spencer |
| Faust | Goethe |
| Things Fall Apart | Achebe |
| Finnegans Wake | James Joyce |
| The Iliad | Homer |
| Don Quixote | Cervantes |
| Gulliver's Travels | Johnathan Swift |
| Uncle Tom's Cabin | Herriot Beecher Stowe |
| Paradise Lost | John Milton |
| Sherlock Holmes | Sir Arthur Conna Doyle |
| One Hundred Years of Solitude | Gabriel Garcia Marquez |
| The Aeneid | Virgil |
| The Odyssey | Homer |
| Pride and Prejudice | Jane Austen |
| The Waste Land | T.S. Elliot |
| The Canterbury Tales | Geoffrey Chaucer |
| Candide, or Optimism | Voltaire |
| The Divine Comedy | Dante |
| The Jungle | Upton Sinclair |
| The Satanic Verses | Salman Rushdie |
| The Cunning Man | Robertson Davies |
| Illusions | Richard Bach |
| Mythago Wood | Robert Holdstock |
| Suttre | Cormac McCarthy |
| Mulengro | Charles de Lint |
| My Antonia | Willa Cather |
| Sometimes A Great Notion | Ken Kesey |
| The Sheltering Sky | Paul Bowles |
| A Farewell to Arms | Ernest Hemingway |
| One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest | Ken Kesey |
| Light In August | William Faulkner |
| Brideshead Revisited | Evelyn Waugh |
| Citizen of the Galaxy | Robert Heinlein |
| Double Star | Robert Heinlein |
| V | Thomas Pynchon |
| It | Stephen King |
| The Puppet Masters | Robert Heinlein |
| Guilty Pleasures | Laurell K. Hamilton |
| The Hunt For Red October | Tom Clancy |
| Naked Lunch | William S. Burroughs |
| Watership Down | Richard Adams |
| Arrowsmith | Sinclair Lewis |
| Farenheit 451 | RAy Bradbury |
| At Swim-Two-Birds | Flann O'Brien |
| The Call of the Wild | Jack London |
| I, Claudius | Robert Graves |
| Zen And The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance | Robert Pirsig |
| The Door Into Summer | Robert Heinlein |
| The Magus | John Fowles |
| The Wood Wife | Terri Windling |
| Invisible Man | Ralph Ellison |
| Tropic of Cancer | Henry Miller |
| As I Lay Dying | William Faulkner |
| The Haunting of Hill House | Shirley Jackson |
| Something Wicked This Way Comes | Ray Bradbury |
| The World According to Garp | John Irving |
| the Sun Also Rises | Ernest Hemingway |
| Starship Troopers | Robert Heinlein |
| The Recognitions | William Gaddis |
| The Little Country | Charles de Lint |
| Ender's Game | Orson Scott Card |
| Greenmantle | Charles de Lint |
| A portrait of the Artist As A Young Man | James Joyce |
| "The Ugly Duckling" | Hans Christian Anderson |
| "The Little Mermaid" | Hans Christian Anderson |
| The Fairy Tale of My Life | Hans Christian Anderson |
| Rainsnakes is a play about this man. | Hans Christian Anderson |
| "The Snow Queen" | Hans Christian Anderson |
| "The Girl Who Trod on the Loaf" | Hans Christian Anderson |
| "Wreck of the Deutschland" | Gerard Manley Hopkins |
| "Pied Beauty" | Gerard Manley Hopkins |
| "The Windhover" | Gerard Manley Hopkins |
| This character was born the exact moment that India gained its independence, and is the main character in "Midnight's Children". | Saleem Sinai |
| The Skeptical Chemist | Robert Boyle |
| This man was exciled to Mexico in the 1940s for being a communist. He was born with the name, Neftali Reyes. | Pablo Neruda |
| Twenty Love Songs and a Song of Despair | Pablo Neruda |
| "Revolt of the Masses" | Jose Ortega |
| "Adam in Paradise" | Jose Ortega |
| "Quixote's Meditations" | Jose Ortega |
| "Genius Child" | Langston Hughes |
| "Me and the Mule" | Langston Hughes |
| "High to Low" | Langston Hughes |
| "The Weary Blues" | Langston Hughes |
| "Montage of a Dream Deferred" | Langston Hughes |
| The Last Temptation of Christ | Nikos Kazantzakis |
| Zorba the Greek | Nikos Kazantzakis |
| Hyperaspistes | Erasmus |
| Handbook of a Christian Knight | Erasmus |
| In Praise of Folly | Erasmus |
| McTeague | Frank Norris |
| The Octopus | Frank Norris |
| Madame Bovary | Gustave Flaubert |
| Salammbo | Gustave Flaubert |
| A Sentimental Education | Gustave Flaubert |
| The Day of the Locusts | Nathaniel West |
| Miss Lonelyhearts | Nathaniel West |
| Snow Country | Kawabata Yasunari |
| Thousand Cranes | Kawabata Yasunari |
| Buchanan Dies | John Updike |
| Toward the End of Time | John Updike |
| The Traffic of Algiers | Cervantes |
| Exemplary Tales | Cervantes |
| The Little Prince | Antoine de Saint-Exupery |
| Night Flight | Antoine de Saint-Exupery |
| Southern Mail | Antoine de Saint-Exupery |
| "My Candle Burns At Both Ends" | Edna St. Vincent Millay |
| Make Bright the Arrows | Edna St. Vincent Millay |
| The Bride of Lamermoor | Sir Walter Scott |
| Rob Roy | Sir Walter Scott |
| "The Lady of the Lake" | Sir Walter Scott |
| Ivanhoe | Sir Walter Scott |
| Master and Margarita | Mikhail Bulgakov |
| The White Guard | Mikhail Bulgakov |
| The Heart of a Dog | Mikhail Bulgakov |
| The Great Divorce | C.S. Lewis |
| Surprised by Joy | C.S. Lewis |
| Mere Christianity | C.S. Lewis |
| The Screwtape Letters | C.S. Lewis |
| Wallenstein | Friedrich von Schiller |
| William Tell | Friedrich von Schiller |
| The Robbers | Friedrich von Schiller |
| "Ode to Joy" | Friedrich von Schiller |
| The Mayflower | Harriet Beecher Stowe |
| The Unbearable Lightness of Being | Milan Kundera |
| The Book of Laughter and Forgetting | Milan Kundera |
| The Joke | Milan Kundera |
| Lolita | Vladimir Nabakov |
| Despair | Vladimir Nabakov |
| "The Darling Thrush" | Thomas Hardy |
| "Hap" | Thomas Hardy |
| "In Tenebris" | Thomas Hardy |
| Tess of the d'Urbervilles | Thomas Hardy |
| Far from the Madding Crowd | Thomas Hardy |
| Death of a Naturalist | Seamus Heaney |
| Station in the Island | Seamus Heaney |
| Beowulf | Seamus Heaney |
| Lady Chatterley's Lover | D.H. Lawrence |
| The Rainbow | D.H. Lawrence |
| The Plumed Serpent | D.H. Lawrence |
| The First Man | Albert Camus |
| The Stranger | Albert Camus |
| The Myth of Sisyphus | Albert Camus |
| This work is what inspired T.S. Eliot's "The Hollow Men" | Heart of Darkness |
| George's Mother | Stephen Crane |
| War is Kind | Stephen Crane |
| The Black Riders | Stephen Crane |
| "The Open Boat" | Stephen Crane |
| Maggie: A Girl of the Streets | Stephen Crane |
| The Red Badge of Courage | Stephen Crane |
| Thirteen O'Clock | Steven Vincent Benet |
| "The Sobbin Women" | Steven Vincent Benet |
| Seven Brides for Seven Brothers | Steven Vincent Benet |
| The Devil and Daniel Webster | Steven Vincent Benet |
| "Laboratory" | Robert Browning |
| "My Last Duchess" | Robert Browning |
| "Porphyria's Lover" | Robert Browning |
| Forsyte Saga | John Galsworthy |
| Karen Blixen wrote under this pseudonym. | Isak Dineson |
| Out of Africa | Isak Dineson |
| The Vampire Chronicles | Anne Rice |
| Interview with the Vampire | Anne Rice |
| Queen of the Damned | Anne Rice |
| "In Flanders Fields" | John McCrae |
| The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test | Tom Wolfe |
| This author wrote under the pseudonym Dod Grile | Ambroce Bierce |
| Nuggest and Dust Panned Out in California | Ambroce Bierce |
| The Devil's Dictionary | Ambroce Bierce |
| An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge | Ambroce Bierce |
| Lord of the Flies | William Golding |
| Rites of Passage | William Golding |
| The Brass Butterfly | William Golding |
| Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses | Mark Twain |
| "A murder, a mystery, and a Marriage" | Mark Twain |
| Eugene Onegin | Alexandr Pushkin |
| Boris Godunov | Alexandr Pushkin |
| The Gypsies | Alexandr Pushkin |
| "The Bridegroom" | Alexandr Pushkin |
| The Bronze Horseman | Alexandr Pushkin |
| Fiasco | Imre Kertesz |
| Fateless | Imre Kertesz |
| Kaddish for a Child Not Born | Imre Kertesz |
| Democracy and Education | John Dewey |
| My Pedagogic Creed | John Dewey |
| Main Street | Sinclair Lewis |
| Arrowsmith | Sinclair Lewis |
| Babbit | Sinclair Lewis |
| Elmer Gantry | Sinclair Lewis |
| Life Among the Savages | Shirley Jackson |
| Raising Demons | Shirley Jackson |
| The Haunting of Hill House | Shirley Jackson |
| "The Lottery" | Shirley Jackson |
| Harmonium | Wallace Stevens |
| "Domination in Black" | Wallace Stevens |
| "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird" | Wallace Stevens |
| "The Emperor of Ice-Cream" | Wallace Stevens |
| Four Books on Architecture | Andrea Palladio |
| The Antiquities of Rome | Andrea Palladio |
| Dead Souls | Nikolai Gogol |
| The Inspector General | Nikolai Gogol |
| Arabeski | Nikolai Gogol |
| Mirgorod | Nikolai Gogol |
| The Joke | Milan Kundera |
| The Book of Laughter | Milan Kundera |
| The Unbearable Lightness of Being | Milan Kundera |
| A Boy's Will | Robert Lee Frost |
| This man read at J.F.K.'s inauguration | Robert Lee Frost |
| Zin and the Art of Motorcycle Maintence | Robert Persing |
| Whats the Matter With Kansas | Thomas Franks |
| The Theory of Moral Sentiments | Adam Smith |
| Barrack - Room Ballads | Rudyard Kipling |
| "It is better to be feared than loved," is a quote that comes from this work. | The Prince |
| The Cardinal's Mistress | Benito Mussilini |
| This is the protaganist of "Brave New World" | Bernard Marx |
| Brave New World | Aldous Huxley |
| The Elements of Law | Thomas Hobbes |
| The Elements of Philosophy | Thomas Hobbes |
| Breakfast at Tiffany's | Truman Capote |
| In Cold Blood | Truman Capote |
| Other Voices | Truman Capote |
| Other Rooms | Truman Capote |
| Rainsnakes | P. O. Enquist |
| The House of the Dead | Dostoyevsky |
| The Idiot | Dostoyevsky |
| Brawny Male | Edna St. Vincent Millay |
| Protagonist of The Awakening | Edna Pontellier |
| Alter ego of Anthony Burgess. | F. X. Enderby |
| Precaution | James Fenimoore Cooper |
| The Spy | James Fenimoore Cooper |
| The Leather Stocking Tales | James Fenimoore Cooper |
| He was often called "The Jew that Shakespeare Drew," and was famous for the quote "If you prick us, do we not bleed?" | Shylock |
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