Fill in the blank. A ____________ was a spectacle performed at court or at the manor of a member of the nobility and was staged to glorify the court or the particular aristocrat?

A. Masque
B. Satire
C. Tragedy
D. Comedy

Related Mcqs:

Short plays called ____________ staged dialogues on religious, moral, and political themes were performed by playing companies before the construction of public theaters?
A. interludes
B. spectacles
C. meditations
D. mysteries
Fill in the blank. ____________ is remembered as the “Morning Star of the Reformation.”
A. John Donne
B. John Dryden
C. John Wycliffe
D. Johan Gutenberg
Fill in the blank. Renaissance thinkers strongly associated themselves with the values of ____________?
A. Catholicism
B. Medieval Europe
C. Classical antiquity
D. Protestantism
Fill in the blank. The novel “Things Fall Apart” explores ____________ society and its encounter with European colonialism?
A. Ibo
B. Russian
C. Irish
D. Indian
Fill in the blank. Walter Benjamin was most clearly a student of ____________’s work?
A. Marx
B. Freud
C. Darwin
D. Aristotle
Fill in the blank. The economic analysis of poverty was advanced by______________ in the fourteenth century?
A. Petrarch
B. Dante
C. Langland
D. Machiavelli
Fill in the blank. King_____________ was notorious for his six marriages and for ruthlessly persecuting his political enemies, violently eliminating all opposition ?
A. Charles I
B. Charles II
C. Henry V
D. Henry VIII
Fill in the blank. In the second edition of_________________, John Foxe promised that he would edit a collection of the works of William Tyndale, John Frith, and Robert Barnes?
A. “Acts and Monuments”
B. “Utopia”
C. “Euphues”
D. “Paradise Regained”
Fill in the blank. Christopher Marlowe’s influence on William Shakespeare was in all probability _______________?
A. Very great
B. Insignificant
C. Somewhat significant
D. Impossible
Fill in the blank. The term “Renaissance” literally translates as “_____________” ?
A. Reincarnation
B. Rebirth
C. Reproduction
D. Recapitulation