Who said that Shakespeare in his comedies has only heroines and no heroes ?

Related Mcqs:

1. Which of the following critics preferred Shakespeare’s Comedies to his Tragedies ?

   A. Dryden
   B. Pope
   C. Dr. Johnson
   D. Addison

2. Who wrote “Shakespeare’s Later Comedies’ ?

   A. A.C. Bradley
   B. Palmer D.J.
   C. Dr.Johnsofl
   D. None of these

3. How did courtly literature characterize its heroines ?

   A. they were never chaste or pious
   B. they always represented the evil side of love
   C. they were sources of inspiration for heroic action
   D. they were examples of mystical unions

4. 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

5. Carlyle’s work On Heroes, Hero Worship and the Heroic in History is a course of ?

   A. six lectures
   B. five lectures
   C. four lectures
   D. seven lectures

6. 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.

7. 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

8. Which of the following is NOT a common attribute of Byronic heroes ?

   A. Arrogance
   B. Nihilism
   C. Good spirits
   D. Dark humor

9. ‘On Heroes and Hero…worship is written by________________?

   A. Huxley
   B. Carlyle
   C. Ruskin
   D. Mill

10. His son Rip, an urchin begotten in his own likeness, promised to inherit the habits, with thåe old clothes of his father. He was generally seen trooping like a colt at his mother’s heels, equipped in a pair of his father’s cast-off galligaskins, which he had much ado to hold up with one hand, as a fine lady does her train in bad weather. What are “galligaskins” ?

    A. Long, wide petticoats
    B. A trench-coat
    C. Loose, wide breeches
    D. Underpants