Which of the following is NOT a Theater of the Absurd playwright?

Choose one of the following prompts and write a 250-300 word discussion in response to it. Be sure that you make specific references to texts and/or use specific names and details where appropriate to support your argument. Many parallels can be drawn between the characters of Hedda Gabler and Medea. Both are strong women who have the power to control other people in various ways. At the same time both of these women are seemingly placed into situations in which they feel a degree of powerlessness. Compare and/or contrast the ways that they deal with this powerlessness. Compare and/or contrast the ways that they deal with this powerlessness and ways that stye use their own power to exert control. Choose one of the following major movements in the history of theater and discuss the major defining characteristics of that era or movement. Be sure to make use of at least one play/playwright to illustrate and serve to exemplify theater during that era/movement. (Theater of the Absurd, the Age of Reason/Neoclassicism, the Golden Age of Greek/Athenian drama.)

Theater of the Absurd occurs and is a reaction to the time period ____.

A narrative that is shaped around a quest, often has flat characters, and has a protagonist who is isolated or outside the mainstream is called a ________.

When his sister comes in to clean Gregor’s room, he hides ______.

When the narrator of “The Old Chief Mshlanga” was very young, instead of seeing the masa tree or the thorn of the Rhodesian landscape, she saw _______________.

The modern Proscenium (the area of the stage in front of the curtain) comes from the Ancient Greek theater’s

_____________ is a figure of thought in which one thing is compared to a markedly different object, concept, or experience in which explicit language is used to make the comparison. 

A long, detailed list of people, items, or abstract qualities often used in poetry and sometimes in prose is called _________.

In the late 1980s, Salman Rushdie had to go into because of threats on his life after the publication of _____.