A. Alan Bennett
B. Caryl Churchill
C. Tom Stoppard
D. Harold Pinter
Related Mcqs:
- “When I was 16 years of age, we heard a Strange Rumor among the English, that there were Extraordinary Ministers preaching from Place to Place and Strange Concern among the White People. This was in the Spring of the Year. … After I was awakened & converted, I went to all the meetings, I could come at; & Continued under Trouble of Mind about 6 months; at which time I began to Learn the English letters; got me a Primer, and used to go to my English Neighbours frequently for Assistant in reading…”?
A. Samson Occcum
B. John Winthrop
C. Benjamin Franklin
D. Mayflower Compact - 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 - Marlowe’s poem ’The Passionate Shepherd to His Love’ begins with the line “Come live with me and be my love”; which other English author wrote a famous poem beginning with this line ?
A. William Shakespeare
B. Thomas Kyd
C. John Dryden
D. John Donne - Which of the following playwrights is thought to have had the greatest influence on Shakespeare ?
A. Ben Johnson
B. Christopher Marlow
C. Philip Sidney
D. Thomas Kyd - Which of the following comic playwrights made fun of Victorian values and pretensions ?
A. W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan
B. Oscar Wilde
C. Robert Corrigan
D. all but C - Which of the following comic playwrights made fun of Victorian values and pretensions ?
A. W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan
B. George Bernard Shaw
C. Robert Corrigan
D. all but C - From which of Shakespeare’s plays is this famous line: ’Did my heart love til now?/ Forswear it, sight/ For I never saw a true beauty until this night’. ?
A. A Midsummer Night’s Dream
B. Hamlet
C. Othello
D. Romeo and Juliet - According to skeptics of Shakespeare’s authorship, all of the following are considered to be the “true” authors of some of Shakespeare’s plays EXCEPT________________?
A. Thomas More.
B. Francis Bacon.
C. Earl of Oxford.
D. John Shakespeare. - Shakespeare sometimes used the trochee, which in meter refers to which of the following? In Shakespeare’s plays, a troche is___________________?
A. The same as an iamb with an unstressed and stressed syllable in a foot
B. The opposite of an iamb with a stressed and then unstressed syllable in a foot
C. Only one syllable for the length of a foot
D. None of the above - Who, among the following, was a Catholic novelist, an Intelligence Officer, a film critic and set his fictions in far-away places wrecked by political conflicts ?
A. Graham Greene
B. Anthony Powell
C. Evelyn Waugh
D. William Golding
