A. Ben Johnson
B. Christopher Marlow
C. Philip Sidney
D. Thomas Kyd
Related Mcqs:
- For his poems, Shakespeare is thought to have drawn upon all of the following for influence and ideas EXCEPT ?
A. Greek mythology
B. European history
C. Early scientific studies
D. The works of earlier poets - 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 - 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 - Which of the following comic playwrights made fun of Victorian values and pretensions ?
A. W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan
B. Oscar Wilde
C. Robert Corrigan
D. all but C - 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 - Both Shakespeare and Christopher Marlow are thought to have been born in what year ?
A. 1564
B. 1580
C. 1577
D. 1550 - 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 - Sir John Falstaff is one of Shakespeare’s greatest ?
A. comic figures
B. historical figures
C. romantic figures
D. tragic figures
