A. “Romeo and Juliet”
B. “Hamlet”
C. “Much Ado about Nothing”
D. “Henry IV, Part I”
Related Mcqs:
- In “Characters of Shakespeare’s Plays”, what does William Hazlitt mean when he states the following: “We do not like to see our author’s plays acted, and least of all, ’Hamlet’. There is no play that suffers so much in being transferred to the stage” ?
A. Hamlet cannot be staged properly because of the complexity of the play’s use of language.
B. Hamlet is not relevant to the Romantic age.
C. The role of Hamlet cannot be properly played by any actor.
D. Hamlet is a work that was written to be read, not performed. - What genres of plays did William Shakespeare write ?
A. Tragedies
B. Comedies
C. Romances
D. All of the above - Many of William Shakespeare’s plays were performed at what theater in Elizabethan England ?
A. “The Curtain”
B. “The Globe”
C. “The Rose”
D. “The Anchor” - 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. - 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 - The first regular English comedy, based on the model of the Latin comedy, is attributed to___________?
A. Nicholas Udall
B. Thomas Colwell
C. Lord Burghley
D. none of the above - In “Characters of Shakespeare’s Plays”, how does William Hazlitt ultimately conceptualize the character of Hamlet ?
A. As a crazed fool
B. As a profound philosophical genius
C. As boyish and immature
D. As a brilliant warrior - In his essay, “Characters of Shakespeare’s Plays”, William Hazlitt conceptualizes Hamlet as_______________?
A. a disturbed and insane man.
B. a man of tremendous humor, simplicity, and innate goodness and kindness.
C. a depressed but ultimately good and nonviolent man.
D. a wicked and manipulative man. - Which of the following is the earliest comedy of Shakespeare ?
A. A mid summer night’s dream
B. Much ado about nothing
C. As you like it
D. Love’s labour’s lost - 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
