When staging a play, it is necessary for the director to follow the requisites of the playwright in terms of period; i.e., a play by Shakespeare would be set in the time it was written

What are drops?

A. pieces of furniture lowered to the stage B. large pieces of painted canvas hung at the back of the stage C. a special kind of cloth that allows light to pass through it D. trapdoors on the stage through which actors can be lowered

The writer Doris Lessing is noted for

A. the bleak vision of her "absurdist" plays. B. the obscurity of her enigmatic poetry. C. showing contradictions between opposing social groups in her realist novels. D. humour of her romantic short stories.