“not of an age, but for all time”-was told about Shakespeare by whom ?

Related Mcqs:

1. All that glitters is not gold. You have heard often this told. This maxim is included in Shakespeare’s__________________?

   A. Merchant of Venice / Shakespeare’s
   B. Shakespeare’s Tempest
   C. Shakespeare’s Much ado about nothing.
   D. None of these

2. Triumph, my Britain, thou hast one to show To whom all scenes of Europe homage owe. He was not of an age, but for all time”. Who wrote above lines for Shakespeare ?

   A. Jonson
   B. Bacon
   C. Wordsworth
   D. none of above

3. The earliest play written by Shakespeare according to Oxford Shakespeare 1988 is______________?

   A. The Taming of the Shrew
   B. As you Like it
   C. Two Gentlemen of Verona
   D. Titus Andronicus

4. 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.

5. 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

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. According to Anthony DiMatteo’s “Shakespeare and the Public Discourse of Sovereignty: ’Reason of State’ in ’Hamlet’”, how does Shakespeare tend to present political rulers in Hamlet?

   A. Shakespeare presents political rulers as flawless, perfect human beings.
   B. Shakespeare presents political rulers as often meeting ruinous and violent endings.
   C. Shakespeare only presents fictional political rulers and does not explore any political realities.
   D. Shakespeare considers all political rulers to be corrupt.

8. At what age of did William Shakespeare marry Anne Hathaway ?

   A. 18
   B. 22
   C. 19
   D. 23

9. Shakespeare died at the age of______________?

   A. 48
   B. 52
   C. 60
   D. 63

10. What was the age of William Shakespeare when he retired from active service to Stratford around 1613 ?

    A. 51
    B. 49
    C. 52
    D. 53

    Updated by: Ammar Yaqoob