The protagonist of this play tells her sister that “I hate the working class” because “it doesn’t exist any more, it means lazy and stupid.” For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this play in which the protagonist is told she would “have liked Hitler if he was a woman.” This Caryl Churchill play opens with an all-woman dinner party to celebrate the protagonist’s promotion at the title agency.
ANSWER: Top Girls
[10e] Top Girls explores the influence of this politician on feminism through the career-oriented and conservative Marlene. Marlene says that the eighties will be “stupendous” thanks to this first female prime minister of the UK.
ANSWER: Margaret Hilda Thatcher [or Baroness Thatcher]
[10h] Isabella Bird, Lady Nijo, and Dull Gret are the first three out of five women from history and folklore to arrive at the dinner party that begins Top Girls. Name either of the last two women to arrive.
ANSWER: Pope Joan OR Patient Griselda
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