A. Byron’s Manfred
B. Coleridge’s Remorse
C. Shelley’s Prometheus Unbound
D. Shelley’s The Cenci
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 distinguishes morality plays from mystery plays ?
A. Mystery plays involve Christian themes, whereas morality plays do not.
B. Morality plays involve Christian themes, whereas mystery plays do not.
C. Morality plays were written individually, whereas mystery plays are in cycles.
D. Mystery plays were written individually, whereas morality plays are in cycles. - Short plays called ____________ staged dialogues on religious, moral, and political themes were performed by playing companies before the construction of public theaters?
A. interludes
B. spectacles
C. meditations
D. mysteries - 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” - Choose the best answer to complete the following sentence. All of the following are Shakespearean plays EXCEPT?
A. “Two Gentlemen of Verona”
B. “The Winter’s Tale”
C. “The Tempest”
D. “Faustus” - Which of the following plays was not authored by Shakespeare in the Jacobean period ?
A. Othello
B. Volpone
C. King Lear
D. Antony and Cleopatra - Which one of the following plays of Christopher Marlow tells the story of the disposition of a king by his barons and the Queen ?
A. Doctor Faustus
B. Edward the Second
C. The Massacre at Paris
D. The Jew of Malta - “ Some born great, some achieve greatness And some have greatness thrust upon them”. Above lines are taken from which of following plays ?
A. Macbeth
B. Othello
C. Twelfth night
D. As you like it - Which of the following plays of Shakespeare has an epilogue ?
A. The Tempest
B. Henry IV, Pt I
C. Hamlet
D. Twelfth Night - 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
