Who wrote “Shakespeare’s Later Comedies’ ?

Related Mcqs:

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

   A. Ben Jonson
   B. John Ruskin
   C. Thomas Carlyle
   D. William Hazlitt

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

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

3. The earliest play written by Shakespeare according to Oxford Shakespeare 1988 is______________?

   A. The Taming of the Shrew
   B. As you Like it
   C. Two Gentlemen of Verona
   D. Titus Andronicus

4. 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.

5. 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

6. 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

7. According to Anthony DiMatteo’s “Shakespeare and the Public Discourse of Sovereignty: ’Reason of State’ in ’Hamlet’”, how does Shakespeare tend to present political rulers in Hamlet?

   A. Shakespeare presents political rulers as flawless, perfect human beings.
   B. Shakespeare presents political rulers as often meeting ruinous and violent endings.
   C. Shakespeare only presents fictional political rulers and does not explore any political realities.
   D. Shakespeare considers all political rulers to be corrupt.

8. Triumph, my Britain, thou hast one to show To whom all scenes of Europe homage owe. He was not of an age, but for all time”. Who wrote above lines for Shakespeare ?

   A. Jonson
   B. Bacon
   C. Wordsworth
   D. none of above

9. Shakespeare wrote ______________ plays?

   A. 32
   B. 34
   C. 36
   D. 38

10. This famous neoclassical poet wrote on profound themes such as death, but he also had a lighter side. He once wrote an ode to a cat drowned in a tub of gold fishes ?

    A. Alexander Pope
    B. William Collins
    C. Thomas Gray
    D. Ben Jonson