A. W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan
B. Oscar Wilde
C. Robert Corrigan
D. all but C
Related Mcqs:
- Which of the following comic playwrights made fun of Victorian values and pretensions ?
A. W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan
B. George Bernard Shaw
C. Robert Corrigan
D. all but C - Experimentation in which of the following areas of poetic expression characterize Victorian poetry and allow Victorian poets to represent psychology in a different way ?
A. the use of pictorial description to construct visual images to represent the emotion or situation of the poem
B. sound as a means to express meaning
C. perspective, as in the dramatic monologue
D. all of the above - Experimentation in which of the following areas of poetic expression characterize Victorian poetry and allow Victorian poets to represent psychology in a different way ?
A. the use of pictorial description to construct visual images to represent the emotion or situation of the poem
B. sound as a means to express meaning
C. perspective, as in the dramatic monologue
D. all of the above - Who, among the following English playwrights, scripted the film Shakespeare in Love ?
A. Alan Bennett
B. Caryl Churchill
C. Tom Stoppard
D. Harold Pinter - The fine arts flourished in Elizabethan England. William Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe, and Edmund Spenser were some of the more famous playwrights and poets of the time. Drama, music, songs, and art were popular with noblemen and commoners alike. Exploring certain topics, however, was considered taboo in any art form. What was a strictly forbidden subject ?
A. Sexuality
B. Criticism of the queen
C. Murder
D. Witchcraft - 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 - Shakespeare makes fun of the Puritans in his play ?
A. Twelfth Night
B. Hamlet
C. The Tempest
D. Henry IV,Pt I - Which of the following novelists best represents the mid-Victorian period’s contentment with the burgeoning economic prosperity and decreased restiveness over social and political change ?
A. Anthony Trollope
B. Charles Dickens
C. John Ruskin
D. Friedrich Engels - Which of the following contributed to the growing awareness in the Late Victorian Period of the immense human, economic, and political costs of running an empire ?
A. the India Mutiny in 1857
B. the Boer War in the south of Africa
C. the Jamaica Rebellion in 1865
D. all of the above - Which of the following Victorian writers regularly published their work in periodicals ?
A. Thomas Carlyle
B. Matthew Arnold
C. Charles Dickens
D. all of the above
