Mock 16 – Modern & Contemporary British Literature (Part 3)

Olivier created Archie Rice at the Royal Court and repeated it in Tony Richardson's 1960 film.

Geoffrey Hill's first collection, For the Unfallen: Poems 1952–1958 (1959).

Yeats wrote The Countess Cathleen (1892) and The Land of Heart's Desire (1894). Time and the Conways is Priestley's, and The Silver Tassie and The Plough and the Stars are O'Casey's.

Willy Loman to Howard; Shaw's 'Maxims for Revolutionists' appended to Man and Superman (1903); Jimmy Porter; Nora's final scene with Torvald.

Note: Option 1 is misprinted in the source (a number repeated); normalised here.

Look Back in Anger (1956), Wesker's Roots and Chicken Soup with Barley, Delaney's A Taste of Honey (1958) and Arden's Live Like Pigs are the movement's plays. Pinter belongs to the 'comedy of menace' and Artaud is French.

Pinter, Beckett and Ionesco are among Esslin's absurdists (The Theatre of the Absurd, 1961). Shaw's problem play and Synge's tragedy are realist.

The Room (1957), No Man's Land (1975) and Family Voices (1981) are Pinter's. A Moon for the Misbegotten is O'Neill's and Krapp's Last Tape Beckett's.

The Playwright as Thinker (1946) → The Theatre of the Absurd (1961) → The Theatre of Revolt (1964) → Modern Drama in Theory and Practice (1981) → Modern American Drama (1992).

Note: Option 1 is misprinted in the source (a letter repeated); normalised here.

Brustein's The Theatre of Revolt: An Approach to Modern Drama (1964) studies Ibsen, Strindberg, Chekhov, Shaw, Brecht, Pirandello, O'Neill and Genet as rebels; it has nothing to do with the French Revolution.

Shaw's Man and Superman (1903) promotes the Life Force's breeding of the Superman, and O'Neill's family dramas are shot through with hereditary determinism.

Spender's 'The Pylons' (1933) named the 'Pylon poets'; Auden's 'Consider' (Poems, 1930); Masefield's 'Cargoes' (1902); Thomas's 'Adlestrop' (1917).

Darkness Visible (1979) is Golding's and The Norman Conquests Ayckbourn's. Rites of Passage won the 1980 Booker, and Dancing at Lughnasa dates from 1990.

J. D. Scott, literary editor of The Spectator ('In the Movement', 1 October 1954).

Pinter was born in 1930, and The Alchemist is Jonson's. Stanley Webber is the hunted lodger of The Birthday Party (1958), and Betrayal (1978) traces Emma and Robert's marriage and her affair with Jerry, in reverse order.

Auden's 'September 1, 1939'; Eliot's 'What the Thunder Said' (The Waste Land, 1922); Owen's 'Dulce et Decorum Est'; Ginsberg's 'Howl' (1956).

Kingsley Amis, 'A Bookshop Idyll' (A Case of Samples, 1956).

Murdoch's first novel follows the drifting writer Jake Donaghue through London.

Woolf (1927); Lawrence (1913); Joyce (1939); Eliot (1922).

Bowen's Big House novel (1929) and Farrell's Troubles (1970) are set during the War of Independence (1919–21). The Siege of Krishnapur is about 1857 India.

Brecht's Chicago meat-market parable (1929–31) and Miller's salesman Willy Loman (1949) dramatise capitalist commodification.

Osborne (Look Back in Anger) and Amis (Lucky Jim) were labelled Angry Young Men, and Larkin, Amis's friend and a Movement poet, is sometimes grouped with them. The Irish poet Heaney (b. 1939) had no connection with the group.

Note: The source's key gives option 4 (Larkin); Heaney is the only option with no link to the group.

Cavaliers (1630s–40s) → Lake Poets (c. 1800–20) → Imagists (1912–17) → the Movement (1950s).

Waugh (1934); Greene (1938); Forster (1910); Lawrence's Mexican novel (1926); Huxley (1925).

Lupercal (1960) and Wodwo (1967) are Hughes's. Wildtrack (1965) is John Wain's and Jack Straw's Castle (1976) Thom Gunn's.