In 1599 which famous actor and his brother Cuthbert set a new playhouse on the Bank side, called the Globe ?

Related Mcqs:

1. One purpose of LITERARY CRITICISM is described below: A formalist approach might enable us to choose between a reading which sees the dissolution of society in Lord of the Flies as being caused by too strict a suppression of the “bestial” side of man and one which sees it as resulting from too little suppression. We can look to the text and ask: What textual evidence is there for the suppression or indulgence of the “bestial” side of man? Does Ralph suppress Jack when he tries to indulge his bestial side in hunting? Does it appear from the text that an imposition of stricter law and order would have prevented the breakdown? Did it work in the “grownup” world of the novel? What purpose does this prescribe to ?

   A. To help resolve a question, problem, or difficulty in the reading.
   B. To help decide which is the better of two conflicting readings.
   C. To enable to form judgments about literature.
   D. All of the above answers are correct.

2. “A MANUSCRIPT was communicated to me during my travels in Italy, which was copied from the archives of the Cenci Palace at Rome, and contains a detailed account of the horrors which ended in the extinction of one of the noblest families of that city during the Pontificate of Clement VIII, in the year 1599.” All of the following state why this quotation from Perce Shelley’s “The Cenci” represents the Gothic EXCEPT_____________?

   A. The placement of the action in the past and in a foreign country
   B. The grandiose threatening setting that requires ingenious stagecraft
   C. The focus on wrongdoing at the highest level of authority
   D. The use of real historical resources by Shelley for the foundation of his play

3. The ambitious spirits of his brother chieftain Sassacus, had ever aspired to dominion over the allied tribes – and immediately after the appearance of the English, the same temper was manifest in a jealousy of their encroachments. He employed all his art and influence and authority, to unite the tribes for the extirpation of the dangerous invaders. Mononotto, on the contrary, averse to all hostility, and foreseeing no danger from them, was the advocate of a hospitable reception, and pacific conduct. What does “extirpation” mean ?

   A. Execution
   B. Going to extremes
   C. Extermination
   D. Expatriating

4. His son Rip, an urchin begotten in his own likeness, promised to inherit the habits, with thåe old clothes of his father. He was generally seen trooping like a colt at his mother’s heels, equipped in a pair of his father’s cast-off galligaskins, which he had much ado to hold up with one hand, as a fine lady does her train in bad weather. What are “galligaskins” ?

   A. Long, wide petticoats
   B. A trench-coat
   C. Loose, wide breeches
   D. Underpants

5. In which year Globe theater got fire and destroyed ?

   A. 1610
   B. 1611
   C. 1612
   D. 1613

6. In 1613 the Globe Theater burned down during a production of which play ?

   A. King John
   B. Richard II
   C. Henry VIII
   D. Henry V

7. Was the Globe ?

   A. A Roman Amphitheater.
   B. An Elizabethan Theater.
   C. An Elizabethan sports stadium.
   D. A famous map of the world.

8. Which of the following statements is TRUE concerning the Globe theater in Elizabethan England ?

   A. It burned down and was reconstructed hundreds of years later.
   B. It was situated on the Thames River.
   C. It was lit from natural sunlight as well as by candle light.
   D. All of the above

9. In the play, “Richard III,” who is Richard’s elder brother ?

   A. Clarence
   B. King Edward IV
   C. Tyrell
   D. Richmond

10. What was the name of the Bronte sister’s only brother ?

    A. Anderson
    B. Branwell
    C. Richard
    D. Pearson