Famous Playwrights

Test your knowledge of famous playwrights from throughout history, including Shakespeare, Ibsen, Williams, Miller, Wilde, Shaw, and more.

15 Questions Published

Questions

Question 1 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which playwright wrote the tragedy "Romeo and Juliet"?

  1. William Shakespeare
  2. Christopher Marlowe
  3. Ben Jonson
  4. John Webster
Question 2 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Who is considered the father of modern drama?

  1. Henrik Ibsen
  2. Anton Chekhov
  3. August Strindberg
  4. Gerhart Hauptmann
Question 3 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which playwright wrote the play "Waiting for Godot"?

  1. Samuel Beckett
  2. Eugene Ionesco
  3. Jean Genet
  4. Arthur Adamov
Question 4 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Who wrote the play "A Doll's House"?

  1. Henrik Ibsen
  2. August Strindberg
  3. Gerhart Hauptmann
  4. Anton Chekhov
Question 5 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which playwright wrote the play "The Glass Menagerie"?

  1. Tennessee Williams
  2. Arthur Miller
  3. Eugene O'Neill
  4. William Inge
Question 6 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Who wrote the play "Death of a Salesman"?

  1. Arthur Miller
  2. Eugene O'Neill
  3. Tennessee Williams
  4. Edward Albee
Question 7 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which playwright wrote the play "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf"?

  1. Edward Albee
  2. Tennessee Williams
  3. Arthur Miller
  4. Eugene O'Neill
Question 8 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Who wrote the play "The Importance of Being Earnest"?

  1. Oscar Wilde
  2. George Bernard Shaw
  3. J.M. Barrie
  4. W.S. Gilbert
Question 9 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which playwright wrote the play "Pygmalion"?

  1. George Bernard Shaw
  2. Oscar Wilde
  3. J.M. Barrie
  4. W.S. Gilbert
Question 10 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Who wrote the play "Peter Pan"?

  1. J.M. Barrie
  2. Oscar Wilde
  3. George Bernard Shaw
  4. W.S. Gilbert
Question 11 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which playwright wrote the play "The Pirates of Penzance"?

  1. W.S. Gilbert
  2. Arthur Sullivan
  3. Oscar Wilde
  4. George Bernard Shaw
Question 12 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Who wrote the play "The Cherry Orchard"?

  1. Anton Chekhov
  2. Henrik Ibsen
  3. August Strindberg
  4. Gerhart Hauptmann
Question 13 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which playwright wrote the play "The Threepenny Opera"?

  1. Bertolt Brecht
  2. Kurt Weill
  3. Friedrich Dürrenmatt
  4. Max Frisch
Question 14 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Who wrote the play "Mother Courage and Her Children"?

  1. Bertolt Brecht
  2. Kurt Weill
  3. Friedrich Dürrenmatt
  4. Max Frisch
Question 15 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which playwright wrote the play "The Visit"?

  1. Friedrich Dürrenmatt
  2. Max Frisch
  3. Bertolt Brecht
  4. Kurt Weill