A. Short story
B. Tragedy play
C. Comedy play
D. Poetry
Related Mcqs:
- In Shakespeare’s “Venus and Adonis,” how is Adonis killed ?
A. In a hunting accident
B. By Venus
C. By execution
D. By old age - To which category that two works of William Shakespeare Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece belong to ?
A. Tragedies
B. Historical Plays
C. Narrative Poems
D. Comedies - Shakespeare dedicated his long narrative poem Venus and Adonis to________________?
A. Henry Wriothesley, the third earl of Southampton
B. Thomas Wriothesley,forth earl of Southampton
C. William Fitzwilliam, first earl of Southampton
D. Henry Wriothesley, the second earl of Southampton - Fill in the blank. The plot of “Venus and Adonis” is based on passages from_____________?
A. The Bible
B. A Christopher Marlowe play
C. Ovid’s Metamorphoses
D. An early Shakespeare play - William Shakespeare’s “Henry V” is an example of what dramatic genre ?
A. Tragedy
B. Comedy
C. Romance
D. History - William Shakespeare’s “Hamlet” is an example of what dramatic genre ?
A. Tragedy
B. Comedy
C. Romance
D. Satire - Jonson was also an important innovator in the specialized literary sub-genre of the….., which went through an intense development in the Jacobean era ?
A. William Shakespeare
B. Ben Jonson
C. Masque
D. A Midsummer Night’s Dream - 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. - 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 - 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
