GRE Subject Test: Literature in English : Contexts of American Plays
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Example Question #491 : Cultural And Historical Contexts
The narrator of Our Town famously breaks what over the course of the play?
The props
A theater seat
The fourth wall
His own arm
A table
The fourth wall
In Our Town (1938), the setting is the theater itself and the narrator, a stage manager, is both aware of and allowed to interact with the audience. This technique is commonly known as “breaking the fourth wall” (meaning the invisible barrier between the actors and the audience).
Example Question #731 : Gre Subject Test: Literature In English
What other Pulitzer Prize-winning play did the author of Our Town write?
Mourning Becomes Electra
The Skin of Our Teeth
The Lion in Winter
The Crucible
Glengarry Glen Ross
The Skin of Our Teeth
Wilder’s 1942 play The Skin of Our Teeth also won the Pulitzer Prize. None of these other plays were written by him. The Crucible (1953) is by Arthur Miller. Glengarry Glen Ross (1983) is by David Mamet. The Lion in Winter (1966) is by James Goldman. Mourning Becomes Electra (1931) is by Eugene O'Neil.
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