A. William Shakespeare
B. Ben Jonson
C. John Donne
D. John Milton
Related Mcqs:
- Which group of intellectual women established literary clubs of their own around 1750 under the leadership of Elizabeth Vesey and Elizabeth Montagu ?
A. the Behnites
B. the bluestockings
C. the coteries of plenty
D. the Pre-Raphaelites - Which group of intellectual women established literary clubs of their own around 1750 under the leadership of Elizabeth Vesey and Elizabeth Montagu ?
A. the bluestockings
B. the coteries of plenty
C. the Pre-Raphaelites
D. the tattlers and spectators - The annals of Massachusetts Bay will inform us, that of six governors, in the space of about forty years from the surrender of the old charter, under James II., two were imprisoned by a popular insurrection – a third, as Hutchinson inclines to believe, was driven from the province by the whizzing of a musket ball – a fourth, in the opinion of the same historian, was hastened to his grave by continual bickerings with the house of representatives – and the remaining two, as well as their successors, till the Revolution, were favored with few and brief intervals of peaceful sway. What is an “insurrection” ?
A. An act or instance of beginning
B. An of revolting against civil authority
C. The state of one risen from the dead
D. The condition of being stopped - Which of the following themes or subjects was not common in the works of Cavalier poets, such as Thomas Carew, Sir John Denham, Edmund Walter, Sir John Suckling, James Shirely, Richard Lovelace, and Robert Herrick ?
A. courtly ideals of the good life
B. carpe diem
C. loyalty to the king
D. pious devotion to religious virtues - James I liked to imagine himself as a modern version of which ruler ?
A. Pericles
B. Genghis Khan
C. Richard Lionheart
D. Augustus Caesar - Which of the following colonial ventures took place in the reign of James I (1603-25) ?
A. the founding of the Jamestown settlement
B. the founding of the Plymouth colony
C. Henry Hudson’s fruitless search for the Northwest Passage
D. all of the above - Which of the following was characteristic of the court of James I ?
A. gluttonous feasting
B. hard drinking
C. hunting
D. all of the above - Who succeeded Elizabeth I in 1603, establishing the Stuart dynasty ?
A. James IV of Scotland
B. James VI of Scotland
C. Mary, Queen of Scots
D. Anne Boleyn
- What did Henry James describe as \loose baggy monsters\ ?
A. novels
B. plays
C. the English
D. publishers - What did Henry James describe as “loose baggy monsters” ?
A. novels
B. plays
C. the English
D. publishers
