For his poems, Shakespeare is thought to have drawn upon all of the following for influence and ideas EXCEPT ?

Related Mcqs:

1. 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

2. Which of the following poems is considered to be the most neglected of Shakespeare’s ?

   A. “A Lover’s Complaint”
   B. “Venus and Adonis”
   C. “The Phoenix and Turtle”
   D. “The Rape of Lucrece”

3. Which of the following poems was authored by Shakespeare ?

   A. “Tintern Abbey”
   B. “A Lover’s Complaint”
   C. “El Cid”
   D. “The Wasteland”

4. In his reading of Shakespeare’s “Fair Youth Sonnets,” who does Charlton Ogburn suppose Shakespeare to have really been ?

   A. Marlowe
   B. Swift
   C. Oxford
   D. Bacon

5. 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.

6. 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

7. Both Shakespeare and Christopher Marlow are thought to have been born in what year ?

   A. 1564
   B. 1580
   C. 1577
   D. 1550

8. Which of the following ideas does NOT come from Edmund Burke’s Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime ?

   A. The effect of the sublime on the physical body
   B. The distinction between the sublime and beauty
   C. An aesthetic explanation of the sublime through painting
   D. The important role surprise plays in creating pleasure

9. Which of the following controversial ideas surround the life and work of William Shakespeare ?

   A. The idea that William Shakespeare never lived.
   B. The idea that William Shakespeare was a Catholic.
   C. All of the above
   D. A and B only

10. Which of the following authors would be most likely to use the supernatural in his poems ?

    A. William Wordsworth
    B. John Keats
    C. Percy Shelley
    D. William Blake?