The Play's the Thing revision

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What do you need in order to prepare for your SE?

There Grendel suffered a grevious hurt,

A wound in the shoulder, gaping and wide;

Sinews snapped and bone-joints broke,

And Beowulf gained the glory of battle.

Grendel, fated, fled to the fens,

To his joyless dwelling, sick unto death.

The stranger from afar, the stalwart and strong,

Had purged of evil (van kwaad gezuiverd) the hall of Hrothgar.

The token was clear when the bold in battle

Laid down the shoulder and dripping claw –

Grendel’s arm in the gabled (met ramen) hall!

This is an extract from the play...

1. Hamlet
2. The Room
3. Everyman
4. Beowulf

To be, or not to be, that is the question: 
 

 Whether ‘tis nobler in the mind to suffer 
 

 The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, 
 

 Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, 


And by opposing end them. To die, to sleep 
 

 No more; and by a sleep to say we end 


This is an extract from the play...

1. Hamlet
2. Abortion
3. Arms and the Man
4. Everyman

JACK: Well, yes, I must admit I smoke. 


LADY BRACKNELL: 
 I am glad to hear it. A man should always have an occupation of 
 some kind. There are far too many idle men in London as it is. 
 How old are you? 
 

JACK: Twenty-nine. 


LADY BRACKNELL: 
 A very good age to be married at. I have always been of opinion 
 that a man who desires to get married should know either everything or 
 nothing. Which do you know? 


This is an extract from the play...

1. The Room
2. Abortion
3. Arms and the Man
4. The Importance of being Earnest

Now hast thou but one bare hour to live,
 

 And then thou must be damn'd perpetually!
 

 Stand still, you ever-moving spheres of heaven,
 

That time may cease, and midnight never come;
 

 Fair Nature's eye, rise, rise again, and make
 

 Perpetual day; or let this hour be but
 

 A year, a month, a week, a natural day,
 

 That Faustus may repent and save his soul!


This is an extract from the play...

1. Everyman
2. The Tragical History of Dr Faustus
3. Arms and the Man
4. Hamlet

CATHERINE: A poor figure! Shame on you! The Serbs have Austrian officers 
 who are just as clever as the Russians; but we have beaten them 
 in every battle for all that. 


RAINA: Yes: I was only a prosaic little coward. Oh, to think that it was 
 all true! That Sergius is just as splendid and noble as he looks. 
That the world is really a glorious world for women who can see 
 its glory and men who can act its romance! What happiness! 
 What unspeakable fulfilment! 


This is an extract from the play...

1. Abortion
2. Hamlet
3. Arms and the Man
4. Everyman

Sat pesynge & patching of Hodg her mans briche 


By chance or misfortune as shee her geare tost 

 
In Hodge lether bryches her needle shee lost, 


When Diccon the bedlem had hard by report 


That good Gammer Gurton was robde in thyssorte, 


He quyetly perswaded with her in that stound 


Dame Chather deare gossyp this needle had found, 


Yet knew shee no more of this matter (alas) 


Then knoeth Tom our clarke what the Priest saith at masse 


This is an extract from the play...

1. Beowulf
2. Abortion
3. Gammer Gurton's Needle
4. Hamlet

  JACK—(abruptly) Come to the point, Dad. 

  TOWNSEND—(confused) What? Eh? 

  JACK—(firmly) You didn't send Evelyn away in order that you might wax reminiscent; you know that, Dad. 

  TOWNSEND—(heaving a sigh of relief) You are quite right, I did not; but what I ought to speak about is such a deuced painful subject for both of us that I hardly dare speak of it—especially on your day of triumph when I should be the last one to bring up any unpleasantness. 

This is an extract from the play...

1. The Room
2. Abortion
3. Look back in Anger
4. The importance of being Earnest

JIMMY: They’re either militant like her Mummy and Daddy. Militant 
 arrogant and full of malice. Or vague. She’s somewhere 
between the two. 


CLIFF: Why don’t you listen to that concert of yours? And don’t stand 
 behind me. That blooming droning on behind me gives me a
 funny feeling down the spine. 
 Jimmy gives his ears a twist and Cliff roars with pain. 
Jimmy grins back at him. 
 That hurt, you rotten sadist! (To Alison) I wish you’d kick his 
 head in for me. 


This is an extract from the play...

1. Look Back in Anger
2. Abortion
3. Arms and the Man
4. The Room

That’s right. You eat that. You’ll need it. You can feel it in here. 
 Still, the room keeps warm. It’s better than the basement, anyway. 
 She butters the bread. 
 I don’t know how they live down there. It’s asking for trouble. Go 
on. Eat it up. It’ll do you good. 
 She goes to the sink, wipes a cup and saucer and brings them to the 
 table. 
 If you want to go out you might as well have something inside you. 
 Because you’ll feel it when you get out. 
She pours milk into the cup. 


This is an extract from the play...

1. Gammer Gurton's Needle
2. The importance of being Earnest
3. Abortion
4. The Room

EVERYMAN: Why askest thou? Wouldest thou wit? 


DEATH: Yea, sir; I will show you: 
 In great haste I am sent to thee 
 From God out of his majesty. 


EVERYMAN: What, sent to me? 


DEATH: Yea, certainly. 
 Though thou have forget him here,  He thinketh on thee in the heavenly sphere, 
 As, ere we depart, thou shalt know. 


EVERYMAN: What desireth God of me? 


DEATH: That shall I show thee: 
 A reckoning he will needs have 


This is an extract from the play...

1. Everyman
2. The Tragical History of Dr Faustus
3. Gammer Gurton's Needle
4. The Room

Mix & Match

Can you mix & match all the plays to their author(s)?

Harold Pinter

John Osborne

Eugene O'Neill

George B. Shaw

Oscar Wilde

William Shakespeare

Christopher Marlowe

unknown; anonymous translation of Elckerlijc

Dr. John Still, Dr. John Bridges or William Stevenson

unknown

The Room

Abortion

The Importance of being Earnest

The Tragical History of Dr Faustus

Everyman

Gammer Gurton's Needle

Harold Pinter

John Osborne

Eugene O'Neill

George B. Shaw

Oscar Wilde

William Shakespeare

Christopher Marlowe

unknown; anonymous translation of Elckerlijc

Dr. John Still, Dr. John Bridges or William Stevenson

unknown

Look Back in Anger

Arms and the man

The Importance of being Earnest

Hamlet

Everyman

Beowulf

Beowulf is...

1. ...a song
2. ...a sonnet
3. ...an epic poem
4. ...a play

A Mystery Play usually took... to perform.

1. an hour
2. a day
3. a week
4. a month

Everyman is an example of a...

1. Morality play
2. Mystery play
3. Epic poem
4. Theatre of the Absurd

Which one is true?

1. In this play Wilde is not a bringer of serious messages and doesn’t bother with human emotions or moral matters. For this reason the title is ironic. ‘Earnest’ means ‘serious’. But there is absolutely nothing serious about the play. It is a farce, rather than anything else.
2. In this play Wilde is a bringer of serious messages and bothers with human emotions and moral matters. For this reason, the title is illustrative of the play’s content as ‘Earnest’ means ‘serious’. The play therefore discusses serious matters.

Mix & Match

Can you match the correct elements to the correct belief?

MEMENTO MORI

CARPE DIEM

Renaissance

Seize the day

Hamlet

Everyman

Remember that you are mortal

Middle English Period

Morality Plays

Dr. Faustus