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 ?

Related Mcqs:

1. William Blake’s /Songs of ‘counterbalance his ‘Songs of Experience’ ?

   A. Love
   B. childhood
   C. Inexperience
   D. Innocence

2. The Jacobean era succeeds the ___________and precedes the Caroline era, and specifically denotes a style of architecture, visual arts, decorative arts, and literature that is predominant of that period ?

   A. Elizabethan era
   B. English Reformation
   C. England
   D. Tudor period

3. The language variety which has certain features which are typical of certain disciplines, topics, fields, occupations and social roles played by the speaker, is called________________ ?

   A. Dialect
   B. Idiolect
   C. Register
   D. Slang

4. Most neoclassical poets viewed the world in terms of a strictly ordered hierarchy. What was this hierarchy called ?

   A. The Way of the World
   B. The Foundational Ladder
   C. The Order of Angels
   D. The Great Chain of Being

5. Which Romantic writer(s) wrote in more than one of these popular literary forms: essay, novel, drama, poetry ?

   A. Percy Bysshe Shelley
   B. William Wordsworth
   C. George Gordon, Lord Byron
   D. all of the above

6. The following extract presents a suitable answer to the hacknied argument drawn by the defender of Slavery from the songs of the Slave, and is also a good specimen of the powers of observation and manly heart of the writer. The word hacknied is an old form of the word hackneyed. What does it mean ?

   A. Lacking in freshness and originality
   B. Saddened
   C. Double meaning
   D. Blue-eyed

7. John Milton deliberately distanced himself from the poets, a group of poets known for their light, elegant style and frivolous content ?

   A. Romantic
   B. Victorian
   C. Cavalier
   D. Enlightenment

8. The Pre-Raphaelite poets were mostly indebted to the poets of the ?

   A. Puritan movement
   B. Romantic revival
   C. Neo-classical age
   D. Metaphysical school

9. How many poets were included in Jhonson’s ‘The Lives of Most Eminent English Poets’ ?

   A. 48
   B. 50
   C. 52
   D. 54

10. The motto “art for art’s sake” means that artists began to do which of the following ?

    A. Produce works of art that were meaningless
    B. Reject artistic production that was obligatorily moral in character
    C. Avoid all forms of prose
    D. Make art profitable above all else