Which of the following plays was not authored by Shakespeare in the Jacobean period ?

Related Mcqs:

1. 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.

2. 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.

3. 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

4. In literature, some of Shakespeare’s most powerful plays were written in that period (for example The Tempest, King Lear, and Macbeth), as well as powerful works by John Webster and ______________?

   A. William Shakespeare
   B. Ben Jonson
   C. Ben Jonson folios
   D. English Renaissance theatre

5. “The Jacobean Era” refers to a period of time in the early 17th century in which of the following countries ?

   A. Jordan
   B. England
   C. Malaysia
   D. Tunisia

6. Which of the following poems was authored by Shakespeare ?

   A. “Tintern Abbey”
   B. “A Lover’s Complaint”
   C. “El Cid”
   D. “The Wasteland”

7. The Jacobean era succeeds the ___________and precedes the Caroline era, and specifically denotes a style of architecture, visual arts, decorative arts, and literature that is predominant of that period ?

   A. Elizabethan era
   B. English Reformation
   C. England
   D. Tudor period

8. Which of the following female authors of the Jacobean era wrote a work that became the \first\of its kind to be published by an English woman ?

   A. Rachel Speght
   B. Aemilia Lanyer
   C. Elizabeth Cary, Lady Falkland
   D. all of the above

9. 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.

10. Which of the following plays by William Shakespeare is a comedy ?

    A. “Romeo and Juliet”
    B. “Hamlet”
    C. “Much Ado about Nothing”
    D. “Henry IV, Part I”