As You Like It | M. Butterfly | Angels in America | The Importance of Being Earnest | Spring Awakening |
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Who is Rosalind?
This character dresses as a man to avoid capture from the Duke's men.
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Who is Gallimard?
This character kills himself at the end of the play.
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What is HIV? (Or, what is AIDS?)
In the 1980s, this disease was equivalent to a death sentence; Angels in America is, in part, about characters dealing with this illness.
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What is earnestness?
This is the Victorian value synonymous with charity, nobility, and kindness.
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Who is Moritz?
This character from Spring Awakening commits suicide.
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What is the forest?
This space is set up as the opposite of the court; it encourages imagination and fantasy.
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What is imperialism? (Or, what is colonialism?)
This term refers to the system of taking over of a weaker nation by a stronger nation, in which the stronger nation imposes its values and cultural traditions onto the weaker nation.
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Who is Tony Kushner?
He is the author of Angels in America. (First and last name, please)
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What is bunburying?
This is the word for make believe or play in the Importance of Being Earnest; it is used to describe Algernon's gallivanting.
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What is agency?
This word means 'control' or 'power'; Wendla gains this when she decides to be different from her own mother.
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What is soliloquy?
This is the name for an extended aside or monologue.
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What is Madame Butterfly?
This is the opera that Hwang bases his play on; he also uses the themes present in this opera to explode racial stereotypes in his own play.
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What is snow?
Belize is referring to this when he says to Louis, "Can you smell it?...Softness, compliance, forgiveness, grace."
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What is Comedy of Manners?
This term is used to describe a text that satirizes the social and moral codes of a particular group of people.
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What is the pastoral?
This utopian space is described in "The Song of Purple Summer" as one in which nature and imagination will be privileged.
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What is iambic pentameter?
This is the type of verse construction that Shakespeare uses; it consists of 5 pairs of unstressed/stressed syllables.
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What is "shame"?
The completion of this phrase: "What do you want? I have already given you my _______." (Written by Song to Gallimard)
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What is "Threshold of Revelation"?
This phrase indicates that there are truly no limits to the imagination; it is used in a fantasy sequence featuring Harper and Prior.
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Who is Miss Prism?
This is the person who misplaced Jack when he was a baby.
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What is establishmentarianism?
This word describes the system of supporting and operating within social and institutional norms; it is represented by the adults of the play.
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What is "stage"?
The completion of this phrase: "All the world's a _________, and all the men and women merely players."
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What is the West and the "Orient" (or Asia)?
These two parts of the world that make up the stereotypical relationship Hwang explores in M. Butterfly.
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Who is Roy Cohn?
He is the lawyer in Angels in America, based on a real person, who is diagnosed with AIDS but pretends to have cancer. (First and last name)
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What is "spade"?
The completion of this phrase: "When I see a ___________, I call it a __________." (Said by Cecily to Gwendolen)
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What is "Those You've Known"?
Moritz and Wendla sing this song to Melchior in order to prevent him from killing himself and to help him move on with his life.
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