Drama quiz
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Who says 'Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears'?
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Who wrote the world's longest-running play?
Answer: Agatha Christie
Why: The play is The Mousetrap, which borrows its title from the play-within-a-play in Shakespeare's Hamlet.
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Who died hours after playing a man who imagines he is sick?
Answer: Molière
Why: He finished the performance despite the attack and died at his home a few hours later.
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How many plays did Lope de Vega claim late in his life?
Answer: 1,500
Why: About 400 to 470 of his plays survive, so most of the 1,500 he claimed are lost or unconfirmed.
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Which line does Hamlet speak while holding a skull?
Answer: Alas, poor Yorick
Why: The skull scene comes in the graveyard of Act 5, two acts after the 'To be or not to be' speech.
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Who tried to stop audiences from getting lost in the story?
Answer: Bertolt Brecht
Why: Brecht's word for it reached print soon after he watched Beijing opera star Mei Lanfang perform in Moscow in 1935.
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Which classical unity did Aristotle insist on?
Answer: Action
Why: The Poetics does not mention unity of place; the Italian critic Lodovico Castelvetro made all three unities rules in 1570.
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