"Judith"

It is very difficult to distinguish what the Major Dramatic Question is for the play, Judith.  Judith in itself is a very ambiguous play leaving many questions the reader may have unanswered.  The playwright's choice to not include certain things in the plot makes it even more difficult to determine the major dramatic question.  Based on that fact, my guess of what it could be is probably horribly wrong.  However, if I had to guess, I would say that the major dramatic question would be, "Will Judith 'lay with' Holofernes?"  Based on the meaning of the MDQ being a question of will the desire of the character that surrounds the play be resolved, I would say that this question is a proper major dramatic question.  Throughout the play Judith, Judith and Holofernes continuously discussed if the reason for Judith's visit was to 'lay with' Holofernes.  Like Night, Mother, it was sort of a round-and-round thing.  Again, although this play was extremely ambiguous, one thing was clear to the reader, and that is that it was a desire of both characters to do this.  However, at the end, Judith ends up decapitating Holofernes, which leaves her unable to do so, almost (counting the fact that she kind of raped his dead body...or did she?).  As I read this play, the one question that I found myself continuously asking was this question.  For most of the play, this was the main conflict, until the reader gets to the end and realizes that they have no idea what the play was really about as they asked themselves, "What on Earth just happened?".  Nevertheless, if the point of the Major Dramatic Question is to keep the reader interested and continuously reading, then this question fulfilled its purpose.