Elizabethan Drama MCQs [14th to 17th century]

By: Prof. Dr. Fazal Rehman | Last updated: April 16, 2025

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1. Which William Shakespeare’s tragedy is a tragedy of misanthropy?



2. Imogen is a character in



3. Last plays of William Shakespeare are tragic-comedies and also known as



4. Which play by William Shakespeare is known as autobiographical?



5. William Shakespeare was born in



6. Venus and Adonais and The Rape of Lucrece’ are



7. William Shakespeare passed away in



8. Life of William Shakespeare is the creation of



9. Holinshed’s Chronicle was used by which Elizabethan dramatist?



10. William Shakespeare took hints from Spanish Tragedy in his



11. Out of William Shakespeare’s 37 plays, _____ plays were published in quarto form.



12. William Shakespeare’s First Folio was published in



13. Who spoke, “The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact”?



14. In which William Shakespearean play are all characters guilty?



15. The famous song, “Take, take those lips away” occurs in



16. Falstaff is a character in which of the following historical plays of William Shakespeare?



17. According to ______, “It is the stars, The stars above us, govern our conditions.”



18. “The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars. But in ourselves that we are underlings” are said by which of the following characters?



19. Which Shakespearean play is a dramatization of a tale Chaucer presented in “The Knight’s Tale”?



20. “Merry Wives” was written by William Shakespeare at the advice of ______.



21. Benedick and Beatrice appear in which of the following comedies by William Shakespeare?



22. Mythology, folklore, and magic find their way into William Shakespeare’s?



23. Which play of William Shakespeare ends without a climax?



24. Which play of Ben Jonson is the most expansive of mature satiric comedies?



25. Sejanus and Catiline are moved by William Shakespeare’s



26. Which comic character of William Shakespeare is famous for his knowledge and sense of understanding?



27. Jonson’s drama, which is an unfinished pastoral drama, is



28. Sidney’s Arcadia is drawn by William Shakespeare in



29. “Drink to me only with thine eyes” is the statement of __________.



30. John Fletcher’s The Wild Goose Chase is a kind of Elizabethan version of Shaw’s:



31. Which play is widely recognized as Webster’s masterpiece?



32. What did Middleton do that got him into trouble?



33. Massinger collaborated with Thomas Dekker in which play/novel?



34. Which of Middleton’s plays is most known for its link with Macbeth rather than for its own merit?



35. Thomas Middleton’s A Chaste Maid in Cheapside and A Trick to Catch the Old One are ______.



36. The title of the play A Woman Killed with Kindness is taken from a proverb quoted in which of the following?



37. Which of the following is the famous tragi-comedy of Middleton?



38. Who described Thomas Heywood as a sort of prose William Shakespeare?



39. Which is the most remarkable work of Thomas Middleton?



40. In A Woman Killed with Kindness by Thomas Heywood, the author sounds a ______ note.



 

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