One Liner From Chaucerian to Shakespearen Age

John Gower wrote his first poem Speculum Meditantis in: French
John Gower wrote his second poem Vox Clamantis in: Latin
John Gower wrote his third poem Confessio Amantis in: English
First Scottish poet: John Barbour.
Chaucer was hailed as the morning star of Renaissance
Friend of chaucer: John Lydgate
Story of Thebes, which is considered the supposed addition of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales is written by: John Lydgate.
In Chaucer’s Prologue to the Canterbury Tales the pilgrims started a sixty mile ride to Canterbury in the month of: April
Chaucer’s Prologue and many of the Canterbury tales appeared in: 1385 -9
Chaucer died in: 1400 in the reign of Henry IV.
For which book Dryden sys, ” Here indeed is God’s plenty.”? Prologue to the Canterbury Tales.
The Romaunt of Rose is written in: Octasyllable.Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde which is adopted from boccaccio is dedicated to: Gower.
Which is considered to be the first novel in English Literature: Troilus and Criseyde.
How many pilgrims were there: 29 including chaucer.
How many tales? 20 completed, 4 partly completed
Who tells the last tale in Canterbury Tales? The person.
Chaucer found English a dialect and left a language – said? Lowes.
Chaucer’s Troilus and Crseyde is a Narrative.
“If Chaucer is the father of English Poetry, he is the grandfather of English fiction” who said? G.K.Chesterton.
The prevailing feature of Chaucer’s humor is: Urbanity.
“What is the world? What asked men to have? / Now with his love, now in his cold grave., /Along without any company.” This line in Chaucer’s The Pardoner’s Tale.
Who introduced the heroic couplet in English and rhyme royal? Chaucer.
Chaucer’s first attempt to use the heroic couplet was in: The legend of good Woman.
The book of Duchess is an allegory.
Chaucerian seven line stanza is also known as: Rime Royal.
Piers Plowman was an allegory of human life.
John Wycliffe is called the morning star of reformation
Wycliff’s translation of Bible appeared in: 1380
Wycliffe is called: The morning star of reformation./ Father of English prose.
Wycliffe’s English is: Simple, vigorous and pointed
Wycliffe’s Bible was influenced by: The Authorized Version of the Bible
Lollards: the followers of Wycliffe
First Protestant in England: Wycliffe
The barren period of English literature: 1401-1515
The Peasants revolt known as Tyler’s rebellion, began in-1381
The War of Roses took place during: 1455-1485
The main cause of War of Roses: The commercial rivalry between France and England
Henry VII ascended the throne of England in 1485
Henry VIII ascended the throne in 1509
Who restored Roman Catholicism in England? Mary
Elizabeth I reigned from 1558-1603
English Caucerians: Thomas Hoccleave, Jon Lydgate, Stephen Hawes, John Skelton
Immensely popular poetry in fifteenth century: Ballad
Ballads written in the fifth century was collected and published for the first time in: Bishop Percy’s Reliques of Ancient Popular Poetry***
Caxton sets up printing : Refressor of Overmuch Blaming of Clergy and The Book of Faith ***
Malory’s Morte’ D’Arthur was published by: Caxton in 1470
Which work was highly influenced by Malory’s Morte’ D’Arthur: Tennyson’s The Idylls of The King***
The first book printed in English was: The Dictes and Sayings of Philosophers
British drama grew out of: Liturgy
The mystery plays dealt with: Biblical themes
The Miracle plays dealt with: A miraculum or miraculous aspect in the lives of saints
The moralities are: serious plays
The outstanding characteristic of interludes is: Humors
Major cycles of miracle plays in sequence: The cornish cycle, the york cycle, the wakefield cycle,the chester cycle
First play in English to employ allegory: Mary Magdalene
Most gifted writer of Interlude: John Heywood
During Elizabethan age England emerged as “a noble and puissant nation, rousing herself, like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks” – Milton said
“Renaissance was the manifestation of new life, an outburst of virtuous floridity after the cramping restraints and withering asceticism of middle ages” – Tillyard said
The Turks captured Constantinople in 1453
The fall of Constantinople resulted in the: Revival of Greek or classical learning
Voyages and Discoveries has been written by: Hakluyt ***
Who pioneered the writing of plain unadorned and direct prose: Voyagers
King Henry VIII issued the famous historic declaration of renouncing the supremacy of Pope and of declaring himself the head of the English Church is 1534
Songs and Sonnets, known as Tottle’s Miscellany appeared in – 1557
Who introduced sonnet for the first time in English poetry? Wyatt and Surrey
Arcadia is a – Romance
Astrophel and Stella has been written by – Sydney
Humanism is a term which strictly applies to – a Renaissance cultural movement which turned away from medieval scholasticism and revived interest in ancient Greek and Roman thought
Spenser has been hailed as “the poet’s poet” by – Charles Lamb
Spenser’s famous Ode Epithalamion commemorates the occasion of – his marriage with Elizabeth Boyle
Amoretti is a collection of eighty four – sonnets
Edmund Spenser’s The Shepherd’s Calender is called – Calender because – It is a series of pastoral eclogues for every month of the year.
What are the general themes of The Shepherd’s Calendar? The unrequited love of Colin Clout for Rosalind.
The first three books of the Faerie Queen were published in – 1589-90
Who among the following is the central character in The Faeries Queene? Prince Arthur
The twelve knights in The Faerie Queene represent twelve – Virtues
A maiden Queen that shone as Titans say In glistening gold, and peerless precious stone. These lines occur in Edmund Spenser’s – The Faerie Queene
W.H Hudson’s statement “essentially the poet of the people” applies to – William Langland.
Sir Philip Sydney’s The Defence of Poesie was published in – 1595
Sidney The Defence of Poesie ia a prose essay which answered Sir Thomas More’s Utopia
Why is War of Roses known by that name? The Rose was the national flower of England.
Calvin was a French Reformer
Thomas More’s Utopia was published in 1551
Which is described as “the prologue to the Renaissance”? Utopia
Arnold wrote “with him is born our real poetry” Who does he refer to? Chaucer
Spenser wrote a preface to The Faerie Queen in the form of a letter. Whom is the letter addressed to? Sir Walter Raleigh
Who does Prince Arthur marry in the end in Spenser’s The Faerie Queene? Gloriana
In the Faerie Queen Elizabeth is allegorized through the character of Gloriana.
Whom did Spenser commemorate in the elegy Astrophel? Sir Philip Sydney.
Who sings the song, “Tell me where is fancy bred” in Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice? Bassanio
In which Shakespearean comedy the “Sing, no more ladies” occur? Much Ado About Nothing
Who wrote Delia? Samuel Daniel
As a writer of sonnets Sir Philip Sidney was influenced by: Petrarch
How many sonnets did Shakespeare compose? 154
“Since there is no help, come let us kiss and part
“Ney I have done, yet get no more of me/And I am glad, yea, glad with my all my heart/ That thus so cleanly I myself may free” wrote Drayton
Which book is called “the true prologue of Renaissance” and “the first modern monument of socialism” – Utopia
Which is the first important treatise on education? The School Master
Sir Francis Bacon was born in 1561
Chronological works of Francis Bacon:
Which critic summed up Bacon’s character in the couplet: If parts allure thee, think how Bacon shined – The wisest, the brightest and meanest of mankind: Alexander Pope
The third edition of Bacon’s essay with 58 essays appeared in 1625
Bacon defined his essays as Dispersed meditations
Bacon borrowed the general conception of essay from: Montaigne’s Essays
Who said “Bacon is the first essayist, as he remains by sheer mass and weight of genius.” – Hugh Walker
Bacon’s essays are conspicuous for the absence of: confidential, intimate, personal and lyrical element
Which is called incidentally the first novel in English: Lyly’s Euphnes
Thomas Nashe’s The Unfortunate Traveler of The Life of Jack Wilton is considered the first picaresque novel in English.
Richard Hooker’s The Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity appeared in 1594
The Laws of the Ecclesiastical Polity is “a defense of the Church against the Puritans” and “the first monument of splendid literary prose that we possess”
Between 1590 and 1593 the theaters were closed due to: Disturbance caused by the actors?
The most important anti dramatic book of the period was: Gosson’s School of Abuse
Which was the first play in Seneca form: Gorboduc
Who wrote first revenge tragedy: Thomas Kyd’s the Spanish Tragedy
University wits: George peele, John Lyly, Thomas Lodge
” The great merit of the university wits was that they came with their passion and poetry and their academic training to unite these forces , and thus to give Shakespeare a pliable and fitting medium for the expression of their genius” said critic: A.Nicoll
Only representative of the writers of real comedies in pre-Shakespearean drama: John Lyly
The first pure English comedy: Ralph Roister Doister
Chronology: Sackville and Norton’s Gorboduc – George Gascoigne’s Jocasta – Gammer Gston’s Needle – Thomas Hughes’ The Misfortunes of Arthur
Shakespeare arrived in London in 1586
Written by John lyly: A Most Excellent Comedy of Alexander and Campaspe, Sapho and Paho, The Man in the Moon
Swinburne calls Marlowe “the first great poet, the father of English tragedy, and the creator of blank verse”
Marlowe’s blank verse is also known as- Mighty Line.
Where was Marlowe born: Canterbury.
Who is the writer of Edward Ii? Marlowe.
Marlow’s only historical play is known as – Edward II
Marlowe’s incomplete play: The Massacre at Paris.
F.Boas remarked, “Marlowe is the rapturous lyricist of limitless desire, Shakespeare is the majestic spokesman of an inexorable moral law.”
The woman in the Moone, one of the earliest romantic comedies, is written by: John Lyly
The Wounds of Civil War: a play written by Robert Greene.
English plays in chronological sequence:
1. Sapo and Paho
2. The Arraignment of Paris
3. The Spanish Tragedy
4. Tamburlaine
5. Dr Faustus
6. The Honourable History of friar Bacon and Friar Bungay
7. Edward II
8. The tragedy of Dido
9. the Queen of carthage.
Come Helen, come give me my soul again- Here will I dwell, for Heaven is in these lips: And all is dross that is not Helen: the line occurs in: Dr faustus
The good angel and the evil angel appear in: Dr faustus.
Who coined the phrase “Marlowe’s Mighty Line” ? Ben Jonson
The name of Shakespeare’s birthplace: Stratford-upon-Avon.
Who affirmed that Shakespeare knew “Small Latin and Greek”: Ben Johnson
Which is an unfinished play of Shakespeare? Timon of athens
Which is not the early comedy of Shakespeare? As You Like It.
Which is not Shakespeare’s mature Comedy? The taming of the Shrew.
Shakespeare’s English historical plays are based on: Marlowe’s Tragedies.
Who wrote about Shakespeare, ” He was the man who of all modern and perhaps ancient poets had the largest and most comprehensive soul.”? John Dryden.
Shakespeare wrote 37 plays
Shakespeare’s Roman plays are based on: Hollinshed’s Chronicles.
Who said that in Shakespeare’s great tragedies character is destiny? A.c. bradley.
Lat plays of Shakespeare: Cymbeline, The winter’s Tale, The tempest.
which Shakespearean plays published in parts: Henry VIII and Pericles.
Identify the title of a collection of verse appeared in 1599, with Shakespeare’s name in the title page: The Passionate Pilgrimage.
The first folio edition of Shakespeare’s play was printed in 1623
Shakespeare dedicated his sonnets to a certain Mr W.H as being “the only begetter” of the sonnet? Who was he? William Herbert, the Earl of Pembroke.
Shakespeare addressed the second group of his sonnets to The Dark Lady, who may be: Marry Fitton.
Which play was omitted from the first folio? Pericles
Portia, a famous character, appears in – The Merchant of Venice.
Identify the last play written by Shakespeare: Henry VIII (in parts)
In As You Like It, Shakespeare followed the plot of: Thomas Lodge’s rosalynde.
Shakespearean play in chronology:
1. Richard III
2. The Comedy of Errors
3. Romeo and Juliet
4. The Merchant of Venice
5. Hamlet
6. Othello
7. Antoni and Cleopatra
8. Pericles
9. The Tempest
10. Henry VIII
Shakespeare expressed the very genius of humanity in his infinite range, complexity, and variety. All human life is there in his plays, its greatness and its imperfectness alike, both mirrored in the triumphs and flaws of his techniques.” said: Michael St. John Parker.
“Neither a borrower nor a lender be: For loan of loses both itself and friend, And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry” – who said: Polonius in hamlet.
“Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never tastes death but once.” said: Julius Caesar in Julius Caesar.
“Peace, Peace!/ Dost thou not see my baby at my breast./ That sucks the nurse asleep”? speaker is: Cleopatra in Antoni and cleopatra.
Shakespeare’s twelfth night has another title: What you Will
Shakespeare played the role of Adam and ghost in As You Like It.
Egeus is a character in: A MidSummer Night’s Dream
Shakespeare’s All’s Well that Ends Well is called a problem play.
Hotspur is a character in Shakespeare’s: Love’s labor lost.
“Wear strange suits, disable all the benefits of your country; but out of love with your nativity; or I will scarcely think you have swum in a gondola.” Who makes fun of Jacques in As You Like It? Rosalind.
” Will you give up your Indian Empire or your Shakespeare, you English. Never had any Indian Empire or never have had any Shakespeare.” said thomas Carlyle
“I loved the man in honor of his memory, on this side of idolatry, as much as any. He was indeed honest and of an honest and free nature.” Who said about Shakespeare? Ben Johnson.
“The Lunatic, the lover and the poet/ Are of imagination all compact.” In which Shakespearean play does these lines occur? A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
Match:
1. The Parliament of Fowles: chaucer.
2. Utopia: Sir Thomas More
3. The Advancement of learning: Francis bacon
4. Dido, Queen of carthage: Christopher marlowe
5. Alexander and Compass: John Lyly
6. Vision of Piers the Plowmen: William Langland.
Which begins with the line: “If music be the food of love, play on.” The twelfth night.
Which dramatist wrote all tragedies: Christopher Marlowe.
Sir Thomas Lucy has been caricatured as Justice Shallow in Shakespeare’s: the Merry Wives of Windsor.
Whose burial took place inside Stratford church? William Shakespeare.
Macflecknoe is a poem written by: Dryden.
Who wrote “Everyman in His humor? Ben Johnson.
Indian Jugglers is an essay by: Hazlitt
In which poem Tennyson says, “Ring out the old, ring in the new.”? In Memoriam
Who wrote ” the Grapes of Wrath”? John steinbeck.
Who rendered into English the ancient Greek tragedy “Atlanta in Calydon.”? Swinburne.
The Deserted Village was written by: Goldsmith.
Savitri is an epic written by: Aurobindo.
The anthem “Vande mataram” occurs in: Ananda math.
“All Fools day” is an essay by: Charles lamb.
The drama Tamburlaine is written by: Marlowe.
The book “Appreciations” was written by: Walter Peter.
“Strife” describes the strike by; factory workers.
“The Admirable Crichton” was written by:
The Death of a Salesman was written by: Arthur Miller.
Which King of England was beheaded? Charles I
The restoration period is said to have started from: 1660
Who gave up writing poetry for a long time for the sake of democracy? Milton.
Who wrote “The lady’s not for Burning”? Barrie
Who wrote the poem “Brahma”? Emerson
The writer of Walden is: Thoreau
In “Sons and Lovers” Lawrence has depicted the life of: miners.
Who wrote Kim? Rudyard Kipling
‘The Hairy Ape’ is a famous play by: Eugene O’Neill
Who wrote Frankenstein? Mary Shelley
Which poem is conceived in a dream? Kubla Khan.
Lines from a poem by which poets were found written on the writing pad of jawaharlal nehru after his death? Robert frost.
Who wrote his own epitaph: “Here lies the one whose name is written in water? Keats
Who wrote ‘Cries of children’? Elizabeth Barret.
Who is known as poet’s poet? Spenser.
Bohemia is a place in the drama? The Winter’s Tale.
Caliban is a character in: Tempest
Who wrote the maximum number of sonnets? Wordsworth.
Which character in “The Merchant of Venice’ said “The quality of mercy is not strained’: Portia.
Adonais is an eulogy written on the death of: Keats.
Oedipus Complex is expressed mostly in: Sons and Lovers.
Who was addicted to opium taking? Coleridge.
Who wrote ‘Mother’? Maxim Zgorkkyy..
Who is associated with Malgudi? Narayan.
Who wrote Don Juan? Byron.
Who wrote The life of johnson? Churchill.
Priest’s nun tale is written by Chaucer.
Malvolio is a character in: Twelfth night.
Pip is a character in: great expectation.
In which poem the lines occur, “Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought”? Ode to Skylark.
Who is said to first use the term ‘Metaphysics’? Dr Johnson.
The writer of Volpone? Johnson.
Chronology: Spenser-wordsworth-Tennyson-T.S. Eliot.
Pilgrim’s Progress was written by: John Bunyan.
The writer of the line: “Stone walls do not a prison make.” is: Lovelace.
“Monkey’s Paw” is a short story
Lyrical ballad appeared in 1798
The writer of “A pair of Blue Eye ” is Thomas hardy.
Hard Times was written by: Dickens.
Elizabeth Bennet is a character in: Pride and prejudice.
Ariel is a character in: Tempest
Which poet was most influenced by German Philosophy? Coleridge.
the two cities referred to in “A Tale of two cities”? London and paris.
The Peasant’s Bread is a story by: Tolstoy**
The Financial express was written by: R.k. narayan.
Negative Capacity” is a term associated with: Keats.
The most impressive treatment of “imagination” has been given by: Coleridge.
Maggie is a character in: The Mill on The Floss.
Who said about poetry: ” Emotions recollected in Tranquility”? Wordsworth.
Lady Chatterley’s Lover was banned because it was considered: Obscure.
For whom The Bell Tolls was written by: Hemingway.
Who said: “I woke one morning and found myself famous.”? Byron.
Paradise Lost Comprises: 12 Books.
Who used the expression “unaging monuments of intellect”? Yeats.
Which poet was invited by John f.Kennedy to his inauguration ceremony? Robert Frost.
The writer of: A Pair of Mustachios is: Anand.
Estella is a character in: Great Expectation.
The writer of Secret letter is: Hawthorne.
In which poem the lines occur: ” To strive, to seek, to find and not to yield”? Ulysses.
Rousseau is associated with: American War of Independence.
Which novelist got the Nobel prize? Hemingway
Which statement got the Nobel Prize? Churchill.
Who wrote the train to Pakistan? Khuswant Singh.
Who is the author of Azadi? Chaman Nahal.
“The God of Small Things” is written by Arundhati roy.
Who wrote the poem ‘Listener’? Walter de la Mare.
Which poem starts with ‘Behold her single in the field.”? The Solitary Reaper.
Animal Farm written by George Orwell.
Shobha De is a Novelist.
Dunciad was written by: Pope.
King Magnus is a character in: Apple Cart.
Bernard Shaw got the nobel prize for: Saint Joan
Who says, “Life, Life, eternal life.”? Christian
Beatrice was the woman whose love inspired a man to write immortal poems. Who was that man? Dante.
Charles I was executed in: 1744 *
Burns was born: in Scotland.
“To a Mountain Daisy” is a poem by: Burns.
Who wrote “the Devil’s Disciples”? Shaw.
Sir John mandeville translated a French book travel in: English
Sir Thomas Malory composed morte d’Arthur in 1469. In which year was it published? 1485.
Who was a king among the Scottish poets? james I
James I composed his The King’s Quir in: Rhyme Royal.
The Testament of Squyer meldrum by Sir David Lyndsay is a Romantic Biography.
Which poem is called a sequel to Chaucer’s troilus and criseyde? Henryson’s The Testament of Cresseid.
Who is considered the chief among the Scottish Chaucerians? Dunbar.
Dunbar wrote which poem in celebration of the marriage of James IV? The Thrissil and The Rois.
Which poem of Duglas is not written by him? Orpheus and Eurydice.
In which poem John Skelton addressed Wolsey? Why come ye not to count.
John Skelton’s The Tunnyng of Elynour Rummyng is known for its Realism.
John Skelton’s Magnificence is a Morality play.
Skeltonics is a form of: Meter.
In which form Thomas Hoccleve’s La male Regle is written? Partly autobiographical.
Which poem is written in the edification of Henry V? Hoccleve’s The Regiment of Princes.
Who is the writer of the Pastime of Pleasure? Stephen Hawes.
Alexander Barcley’s Certayne Eclogues is the collection of: English Pastorals.
Who introduced the Printing machine in England in 1476? William caxton.
The religious book The ways of perfect Religion is written by: John Fisher.
Sir Thomas More’s Latin Work utopia’s English translation came out in: 1551
Works by Sir Thomas More: The Historie of Richard III, Utopia, The Lyfe of John Picus.
Which poem Edmund Spenser wrote in the honor of his own marriage? Epithalamion.
Which poem Edmund Spenser wrote in honor of marriage? Prothalamion.
Minor poems by Spenser: The Tears of Muses, The Shepherd’s calendar, The Ruins of time.
How many Patrarchan sonnets are there in Spenser’s Amoretti? 88
Spenser’s Faerie Queene is a Allegorical poem.The first installment of faerie Queene was published in 1589. In which year the second installment got published? 1596
Edmund Spenser introduced the Spenserian Stanza, it consists of: Nine Lines.
Who wrote Venus and Adonis? Edmund Spenser.
Prince Arthur is a character in: Spenser’s The faerie Queene.
Who introduced the couplet ending in petrarchan sonnet? Wyatt.
Sir Thomas Wyatt contributed his poem in: Tottle’s miscellany.
Earl of Surrey Introduced: Blank Verse
Who introduced Poulter’s Measure in English poetry? Earl of Surrey.
Who is called the earl of Surrey? Henry howar
Dorset’s poem appeared in: Mirrour for Magistrates
Which term was coined by George Gascoigne? Poulter’s Measure.
Gascoigne composed The Steele Glass in: rhyme royal.
The first supposed prose comedy: written by gascoigne.
How many sonnets are in Philip Sidney’s Astrophel and Stella? 108.
Sidney’s Arcadia which is a pastoral romance, is similar to: More’s Utopia
Philip Sidney’s Apologie for Poetries is provoked by: Gosson’s School of Abuse.
Who is the writer of the Man in the Moon? Dryton.
Contemporary Shakespeare? Thomas Campion.
Which poem of Thomas Campion is not written by him? Delia.
Samuel Daniel’s Delia is a Sonnet series.
The Complaynt of Rosamond which is considered a romance is written by? George Peel.
Which work of Samuel Daniel is considered a great piece of Criticism? Defense of Rhyme.
How many writers are there in University wits? 7
Which play of Feorge Peele was a Clever satire on popular drama ? The Old Wives Tale.
George Peele’s The famous Chronicle of King Edward I is a: Rambling chronicle play.
Which play by Robert Greene represents Elizabethan Life? Friar bacon and Friar Bongay.
Robert Greene’s Alphonsus, King of Aragon was an imitation of: Marlowe’s Yamburlaine.
Which play is adopted from an English translation of Ariosto? Greene’s Orlando Furioso.
The Scottish Historie of James IV, which has the vision of the life of King James IV, is written by: Robert greene.
Who contributed in the Marlowe’s The Tragedy of Dido, Queen of Carthage? Thomas nash
What is the subtitle of Thomas Nashe’s The Unfortunate Traveler? The Life of Jack Wilton.
Thomas Nash’s Summer’s last Will and Treatment is a satirical masque.
Which University Wit collaborated with Shakespeare in Henry IV? Thomas Lodge.
Thomas Lodge’s The Wounds of Civil War is a Chronicle Play.
Spanish Tragedy is by Thomas Kyd.
From which language Thomas Kyd translated Cornelia? French.
Ben Jonson was born in 1573 at Westminster and was buried in: Westminster Abbey.
Who is called the father of English classical comedy? Ben Jonson.
What is the subtitle of Ben Jonson’s Timber? Discoveries.
Who considered the chief function of literature is to instruct? Ben Jonson.
Who wrote “drink to me only with thine eyes’ ‘? Ben Jonson.
Ben Jonson’s masque?Oberon, the Fairy prince. The Masque of Beauty. The masque of Queens.
Ben Jonson’s comedies: The Alchemist, Catiline his Conspiracy, Every man in his Humor, Every man out of his Humor.
Ben Jonson’s Catiline his Conspiracy is a: Historical play.
What is the subtitle of Jonson’s Volpone? The Fox.
What is the subtitle of Ben Jonson’s Epicane? The man.
Which writer died of plague? John Fletcher.
Which play is best esteemed by Dryden? A King and No King.
Who wrote the faithful Shepherdess? John Fletcher.
Which play is very reminiscent of Twelfth Night? Philaster
Which play of George Chapman is based on the tragedies of Marlowe? The Blind Beggar of Alexandria.
Which play of George Chapman is considered the historical play of contemporary times? Tragedie of Chabot.
Which play is ridiculed by Jonson the poet? Antonio’s Revenge.
Who is called Dickens of Elizabethan Age? Thomas Dekker.
Who wrote the Shoemaker’s Holiday which is based on modern London? Thomas Dekker.
In which play Dekker collaborated with massinger? The Virgin martyr.
Thomas Middleton’s A Mad World, My Master was published in: 1623.
Which play of Middleton is praised by Lamb and other writers? The Witch.
Middleton’s the Witch has a strong resemblance to: Othello.
Vittoria and Duchess in Webster’s The Duchess of Malfi are considered the Two finest women characters of the: Elizabethan drama.
Who wrote the Revenger’s Tragedy? Thomas Heywood
In which two languages did Francis Bacon write? Italian and Latin
How many Essays Francis Bacon wrote? 38
Francis Bacon’s essay’s first edition appeared in 1597, second in 1612, and third in: 1621.
Thomas Middleton’s The Spanish Gipsy is a tragedy.
Best play of Thomas Heywood? King Edward IV.
Who wrote The Royal King and the Loyal Subject? John Webster.
John Webster’s The Duchess of Malfi is a Romantic Play.
Basola is a character in: The Duchess of Malfi

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