Who began the tradition of revenge play ?

Related Mcqs:

1. According to T.S. Eliot in his essay on “Tradition and the Individual Talent,” which of the following is true of “tradition ?”

   A. In English literature, we cannot refer to “the tradition” or to “a tradition;” at most, we employ the adjective in saying that the poetry of so-and-so is “traditional” or even “too traditional.”
   B. Tradition is the great conversation which links all English literature and is a coherent and stable cannon.
   C. All of the above
   D. A and B only

2. One purpose of LITERARY CRITICISM is described below: “The historical approach, for instance, might be helpful in addressing a problem in Thomas Otway’s play Venice Preserv’d. Why are the conspirators, despite the horrible, bloody details of their obviously brutish plan, portrayed in a sympathetic light? If we look at the author and his time, we see that he was a Tory whose play was performed in the wake of the Popish Plot and the Exclusion Bill Crisis, and that there are obvious similarities between the Conspiracy in the play and the Popish Plot in history. The Tories would never approve of the bloody Popish Plot, but they nonetheless sympathized with the plotters for the way they were abused by the Tory enemy, the Whigs. Thus it makes sense for Otway to condemn the conspiracy itself in Vencie Preserv’d without condemning the conspirators themselves.” What purpose does this prescribe to ?

   A. To help resolve a question, problem, or difficulty in the readin
   B. To help decide which is the better of two conflicting readings.
   C. To enable to form judgments about literature.
   D. All of the above answers are correct.

3. What is the title to Milton’s blank-verse epic that assimilates and critiques the epic tradition ?

   A. L’Allegro
   B. Lycidas
   C. Paradise Lost
   D. The Divine Comedy

4. Horace Walpole’s The Castle of Otranto initiated which literary tradition ?

   A. Hunnish epic
   B. Gothic fiction
   C. epistolary novel
   D. meta-novel

5. The title page which play of Christopher Marlow attributes the play to Marlowe and Thomas Nashe ?

   A. Doctor Faustus
   B. Dido, Queen of Carthage
   C. Edward the Second
   D. Tamburlaine the Great

6. Which of Shakespeare’s play is his only play that has never been adopted for film or Television ?

   A. Taming of the Shrew
   B. The two Noble Kinsmen
   C. Troilus and Cressida
   D. Cymbeline

7. In “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” who is chosen to play Pyramus in the craftsmen’s play ?

   A. Peter Quince
   B. Francis Flute
   C. Nick Bottom
   D. Tom Snout

8. A critic of Thomas Otway’s “Venice Preserv’d” wishes to know why the play’s conspirators, despite the horrible, bloody details of their obviously brutish plan, are portrayed in a sympathetic light. She examines the author’s life and times and discovers that there are obvious similarities between the conspiracy in the play and the Popish Plot. She is most likely a critic ?

   A. Historical
   B. Feminist
   C. Tory
   D. Psychological

9. The statements below are parts of the steps on “How to Analyze a Play”. Which comes in as second thing to do before writing a critical essay of a play ?

   A. Identify External Factors Related to the Work
   B. Interpret the Play
   C. Analyze the Staging
   D. Analyze the Essential Elements of the Play

10. “The Second Shepherds’ Play” is part of which play cycle ?

    A. Cornish cycle
    B. York cycle
    C. Roman cycle
    D. Wakefield cycle