Humanities Excel Review Plays

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thespis

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lead singer (after father of tragedy)

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Prometheus

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stole fire from the sun and gave top human(supposedly made first human from clay)

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Morality Play

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Everyman (15th century)

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Oscar Wilde

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the Importance of Being Earnest, Ideal Husband, Lady Windemere's Fan, A Woman of no Importance

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Edmund Rostand

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The Romancers, The Woman of Samaria, Chanticler, Cyrano De Bergerac

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Eugene Ionesco

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absurdity of the proletariet and the Borgiouse, the Bald Soprano, La Lecon, Les Chaises, Rhinoceros

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Tennessee Williams

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A Streetcar named Desire (pulitzer 1947), The Glass Menagerie, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Night of the Iquana, The Milk Train Doesn't Stop here anymore, The 7 Descents of Myrtle, In the Bar of the Tokyo hotel, Small Craft Warning

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Sophocles

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Oedipus Rex(father King Laius), Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone, 497 BC, – 406 BC, Greek tragedians

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Aeschylus

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Oresteria - Agamemnon, The Cloephoroe, The Eumenides; Prometeus Bound (never found 2nd and 3rd parts to trilogy)(525 BC—456 BC,Greek tragedians

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Aristophenes

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(satire) Lysistrada, The Clouds (re:Socrates), the Wasps,448 BC – c. 385 BC) was a Greek Old Comic

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Henrik Ibsen

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A Doll's House, Ghosts, Enemy of the People

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Apollo -

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(Greek) God of Shepherds and Muses

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Dionysus -

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(Greek) God of wine and fertility

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Poseidon -

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Poseidon -

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Mercury -

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(Roman) God of speed

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Vulcan -

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(Roman) God of Fire and Crafts

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Neptune -

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(Roman) God of the sea

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Hephaestus -

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the god of forge

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Hades -

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refers both to the ancient Greek underworld, the abode of Hades, and to the god of the underworld.