A. a narrative poem
B. a sonnet
C. an elegy
D. a wedding hymn
Related Mcqs:
- The fine arts flourished in Elizabethan England. William Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe, and Edmund Spenser were some of the more famous playwrights and poets of the time. Drama, music, songs, and art were popular with noblemen and commoners alike. Exploring certain topics, however, was considered taboo in any art form. What was a strictly forbidden subject ?
A. Sexuality
B. Criticism of the queen
C. Murder
D. Witchcraft - Who was Edmund Spenser’s patron ?
A. The Earl of Leicester
B. Elizabeth
C. Lord Burleigh
D. Francis Bacon - Which work did Edmund Spenser author ?
A. The Castle of Perseverance
B. The Double
C. The Metamorphoses
D. The Faerie Queene - Which book Edmund Spenser dedicated to the Philip Sidney ?
A. The Faerie Queene
B. The shepheaedes Calendar
C. Complaints
D. Colin Clouts come home again - In which work of Edmund Spenser the Ape and the Fox serve to satirize the customs of the court ?
A. The Teares of the Muses
B. Prosopopoia, or Mother Hubberds Tale
C. Muiopotmos, or the Fate of the Butterflie
D. Ruines of Rome: by Bellay - To whom Edmund Spenser dedicated the work The Faerie Queene ?
A. Sidney
B. Elizabeth
C. Mary
D. Chaucer - Which one of the following is an unfinished work of Edmund Spenser ?
A. The Faerie Queene
B. Amoretti
C. The Shepheardes Calender
D. Astrophel - Where did Edmund Spenser born ?
A. Worcester
B. Chester
C. East Smithfield
D. Kent - To whom did Edmund Spenser addresses his sonnet sequence Amoretti ?
A. Lisa Boyle
B. Mary Jane
C. Queen Elizabeth
D. Elizabeth Boyle - Edmund Spenser wrote what famous text ?
A. “Paradise Lost”
B. “The Faerie Queen”
C. “The Prelude”
D. “Canterbury Tales”