Elizabethan Drama MCQs [14th to 17th century]
Which William Shakespeare’s tragedy is at tragedy of misanthropy?
(a) Hamlet
(b) Timon of Athens
(c) Othello
(d) King Lear
Question’s Answer: Timon of Athens
Imogen is a character in
(a) Cymbeline
(b) Coriolanus
(c) Tempest
(d) Pericles
Question’s Answer: Cymbeline
Last plays of William Shakespeare are tragic-
comedies and also known as
(a) Comedies
(b) Farces
(c) Tragedies
(d) Romances
Question’s Answer: Tragedies
Which play by William Shakespeare is known as autobiographical?
(a) The Tempest
(b) Cymbeline
(c) Pericles
(d) The Winter’s Tale
Question’s Answer: The Tempest
William Shakespeare was born in
(a) 1550
(b) 1505
(c) 1564
(d) 1510
Question’s Answer: 1564
Venus and Adonais and The Rape of Lucrece’ are
(a) Tragedies
(b) Love poems
(c) Comedies
(d) Novels
Question’s Answer: Love poems
William Shakespeare pass away in
(a) 1616
(b) 1601
(c) 1610
(d) 1600
Question’s Answer: 1600
Life of William Shakespeareis the creation of
(a) Sidney Lee
(b) Philip Sidney
(c) Spenser
(d) Marlowe
Question’s Answer: Spenser
Holinshed’s Chronicle was used by which Elizabethan dramatist?
(a) Heywood
(b) Marlowe
(c) William Shakespeare
(d) Dekker
Question’s Answer: William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare took hint from Spanish.Tragedy in his
(a) Macbeth
(b) Hamlet
(c) Othello
(d) King Lear
Question’s Answer: Hamlet
Out of William Shakespeare’s 37 plays_____plays were published in quarto form.
(a) 12
(b) 15
(c) 16
(d) 20
Question’s Answer: 16
William Shakespeare’s First Folio was published in
(a) 1600
(b) 1623
(c) 1620
(d) 1610
Question’s Answer: 1623
Who spoke?
“The lunatic, the lover and the poet,Are of imagination all compact.”
(a) Thisbey
(b) Bottom
(c) Pyramus
(d) Theseus
Question’s Answer: Theseus
In which William Shakespearean play all are guilty?
(a) As You Like It
(b) Twelfth Night
(c) Measure for Measure
(d) All’s Well That Ends Well
Question’s Answer: Measure for Measure
The famous song. Take, a take those lips away’ occurs in
(a) As You Like It
(b) Merchant of Venice
(c) Measure for Measure
(d) Much Ado About Nothing
Question’s Answer: Measure for Measure
Falstaff is a character in which of the following historical play of William Shakespeare ?
(a) Henry I
(b) Henry IV
(c) Henry VIII
(d) Henry V
Question’s Answer: Henry IV
According to_____,’It is the stars, The stars above us, govern our conditions.”
(a) Kent
(b) Edgar
(c) King Lear
(d) Fool
Question’s Answer: King Lear
“The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars. But in ourselves that we are underlings” are said by which of the following author?
(a) Brutus
(b) Ceasar
(c) Cassius
(d) None of these
Question’s Answer: Ceasar
Which Shakespearean play is a dramatisation of a tale Chaucer presented in “The Knight’s Tale”?
(a) The Two Noble Kinsmen
(b) As You Like It
(c) The Merchant of Venice
(d) The Tempest
Question’s Answer: The Two Noble Kinsmen
“Merry Wives” was written by William Shakespeare at the advice of ______ .
(a) his father
(b) Queen Elizabeth
(c) his beloved
(d) his friend
Question’s Answer: Queen Elizabeth
Benedick and Beatrice appear in which of the following comedy by William Shakespeare?
(a) The Tempest
(b) The Winter’s Tale
(c) Much Ado About Nothing
(d) Pericles
Question’s Answer: Much Ado About Nothing
Mythology, folklore and magic find their way into William Shakespeare’s?
(a) Last plays
(b) Comedies
(c) Tragedies
(d) None of these
Question’s Answer: Last plays
Which play of William Shakespeare ends without a climax?
(a) Troilus and Cressida
(b) Antony and Cleopatra
(c) Twelfth Night
(d) All’s Well That Ends Well
Question’s Answer: All’s Well That Ends Well
Which play of Ben Jonson is the most expansive of mature satiric comedies?
(a) The Poetaster
(b) Volpone
(c) The Silent Woman
(d) Bartholomew Fair
Question’s Answer: Bartholomew Fair
Sejanus and Catiline are moved by William Shakespeare’s
(a) The Taming of a Shrew
(b) Romeo and Juliet
(c) As You Like It
(d) Julius Ceaser
Question’s Answer: Julius Ceaser
Which comic character of William Shakespeare is famous for his knowledge, and sense of understanding?
(a) Feste
(b) Bottom
(c) Fool
(d) Puck
Question’s Answer: Fool
Jonson’s drama which is an unfinished pastoral drama is
(a) The Staple of News
(b) The Tale of a Tub
(c) The Sad Shepherd
(d) The New Inn
Question’s Answer: The Sad Shepherd
Sidney’s Arcadia is drawn by William Shakespeare in
(a) The Winter’s Tale
(b) Macbeth
(c) King Lear (a tragedy)
(d) The Tempest
Question’s Answer: King Lear (a tragedy)
“Drink to me only with thine eyes” is the statement of __________.
(a) William Shakespeare
(b) Milton
(c) Ben Jonson
(d) Marlowe
Question’s Answer: Ben Jonson
Which is the Jonson’s first important and successful play?
(a) Volpone
(b) The Silent Woman
(c) Everyman Out of His Humour
(d) Everyman in His Humour
Question’s Answer: Everyman in His Humour
Cynthia’s Revels was first acted in which year?
(a) 1605
(b) 1600
(c) 1619
(d) 1650
Question’s Answer: 1600
The Fox is the sub-title of
(a) The Alchemist
(b) Everyman in His Humour
(c) Volpone
(d) None of these
Question’s Answer: Volpone
Mosca is a character found in which of the following?
(a) The Poetaster
(b) The Alchemist
(c) Volpone
(d) None of these
Question’s Answer: Volpone
Sejanus of Jonson was written in which year?
(a) 1609
(b) 1603
(c) 1610
(d) 1599
Question’s Answer: 1603
Boccaccio’s Decamenon is echoed in which creation of William Shakespeare?
(a) Twelfth Night
(b) Troilus and Cressida
(c) As You Like It
(d) All’s Well That Ends Well
Question’s Answer: All’s Well That Ends Well
Ben Jonson’s The Poetaster was directed against which of the following?
(a) Nashe
(b) Deloney
(c) Marston
(d) Kyd
Question’s Answer: Marston
The drama by Ben Jonson that Dryden analyse is _________ .
(a) The Alchemist
(b) Volpone
(c) Epicoene
(d) Bartholomew Fair
Question’s Answer: Epicoene
Face and Subtle are the characters of which novel/play?
(a) The Poetaster
(b) Volpone
(c) The Alchemist
(d) Epicoene
Question’s Answer: The Alchemist
Which is the play jointly written by Marston, Jonson, and Chapman?
(a) Volpone
(b) The Silent Woman
(c) Eastward Hoe
(d) The Poetaster
Question’s Answer: Eastward Hoe
John Fletcher was senior to Beaumont by.
(a) 15 years
(b) 10 years
(c) 5 years
(d) 20 years
Question’s Answer: 5 years
John Fletcher pass away of
(a) Cholera
(b) Fever
(c) Tuberculosis
(d) Plague
Question’s Answer: Plague
Catiline of Jonson was written in which year?
(a) 1611
(b) 1613
(c) 1600
(d) 1610
Question’s Answer: 1611
Which Jonson’s play is a more regular play complete with ghosts and chorus?
(a) Sejanus
(b) Catiline
(c) Volpone
(d) None of these
Question’s Answer: Catiline
” The White Devil” is a play by John Webster and is founded on Italian history and dramatize events that took place in which year?
(a) 1580
(b) 1550
(c) 1573
(d) 1500
Question’s Answer: 1580
The white devil in “The White Devil” is ____ .
(a) Courtesan
(b) Villain
(c) Satan
(d) Ghost
Question’s Answer: Courtesan
The only one of the plays of John Webster presented on the modern stage was
(a) The White Devil
(b) Appuis and Virginia
(c) The Devil’s Law Case
(d) The Duchess of Malfi
Question’s Answer: The Duchess of Malfi
How many plays are assigned to Beaumont and Fletcher alone and in collaboration?
(a) 45
(b) 40
(d) 52
(c) 30
Question’s Answer: 45
“Philaster” is a Play by Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher and it is fine study in which of the following?
(a) Romance
(b) Jealousy
(c) Supernaturalism
(d) Human psychology
Question’s Answer: Jealousy
Fletcher did not collaborate with Beaumont in which of the following?
(a) Faithful Shepherdess
(b) The Scornful Lady
(c) The City Madam
(d) A King and No King
Question’s Answer: The City Madam
John Webster’s chronicle’ plays are written to appeal to which of the following?
(a) Gallants
(b) Groundlings
(c) Contemporary society
(d) Aristocrats
Question’s Answer: Groundlings
The Woman Hater was full of comedy and it was written by ______ .
(a) William Shakespeare
(b) Fletcher
(c) Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher
(d) Marlowe
Question’s Answer: Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher
John Webster followed the trade of a_____as a means of livelihood.
(a) Barber
(b) Blacksmith’
(c) Carpenter
(d) Tailor
Question’s Answer: Tailor
In The Malcontent Webster collaborated with
(a) Marston
(b) Middleton
(c) Dekker
(d) Massinger
Question’s Answer: Marston
Webster’s The White Devil was published in which year?
(b) 1608
(a) 1611
(c) 1605
(d) 1610
Question’s Answer: 1608
The style and treatment of the subject in the story of “The Duchess of Malfi” by John Webster has been inspired by which author?
(a) William Shakespeare
(b) John Keats
(c) Shelley
(d) Sidney
Question’s Answer: Sidney
Francis Beaumont wrote The Woman Hater in which year?
(a) 1600
(b) 1603
(c) 1612
(d) 1607
Question’s Answer: 1607
John Fletcher’s The Wild Goose Chase is a kind of Elizabethan version of Shaw’s
(a) Pygmalion
(b) Candida
(c) Arms and the Man
(d) Man and Superman
Question’s Answer: Man and Superman
Which play is widely recognized as Webster’s masterpiece?
(a) The Duchess of Malfi
(b) The Malcontent
(c) The White Devil
(d) The Devil’s Law Case
Question’s Answer: The White Devil
What did Middleton do that got him into trouble?
(a) The Changeling
(b) A Game of Chess
(c) The Old Law
(d) A Faire Quarrel
Question’s Answer: A Game of Chess
Massinger collaborated with Thomas Dekker in which play/novel?
(a) The Unnatural Combat
(b) The City Madam
(c) The Virgin Martyr
(d) Empire of the East
Question’s Answer: The Virgin Martyr
Which of Middleton’s plays is most known for its link with Macbeth rather than for its own merit?
(a) The Changeling
(b) The Old Law
(c) Witch
(d) A Trick to Catch the Old One
Question’s Answer: Witch
Thomas Middleton’s “A Chaste Maid in Cheapside” and “A Trick to Catch the Old One” are ____ .
(a) Tragic
(b) Satirical comedies
(c) Tragedies
(d) Comedies
Question’s Answer: Satirical comedies
The title of the play “A Woman Killed with Kindness” is taken from a proverb quoted in which of the following?
(a) King Lear
(b) The Taming of the Shrew
(c) Macbeth
(d) The Tempest
Question’s Answer: The Taming of the Shrew
Which of the following is the famous tragi-comedy of Middleton?
(a) The Family of Love
(b) Anything for a Quiet life
(c) The Changeling Old One
(d) A Trick to Catch the
Question’s Answer: The Changeling Old One
Who described Thomas Heywood as a sort of prose William Shakespeare?
(a) Johnson
(b) Charles Lamb (English essayist)
(c) Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(d) Middleton
Question’s Answer: Charles Lamb (English essayist)
Which is the most remarkable work of Thomas Middleton?
(a) Fair Maid of the West
(b) The English Traveller
(c) Arden of Feversham Kindness
(d) The Woman Killed with
Question’s Answer: The Woman Killed with
In “A Woman Killed with Kindness” by Thomas Heywood, author sounds a______note.
(a) Domestic
(b) Lyrical
(c) Satirical
(d) Comical
Question’s Answer: Domestic
Philip Massinger was born in which year?
(a) 1503
(c) 1574
(b) 1583
(d) 1530
Question’s Answer: 1583
In which play Middleton collaborated with Thomas Dekker?
(a) The Roaring Girl
(b) A Game of Chess
(c) The Mayor of Quinborough
(d) The Changeling
Question’s Answer: The Roaring Girl
The first part of Thomas Dekker’s The Honest Whore is thought to be influenced by
(a) William Shakespeare
(b) Heywood
(c) Marston
(d) Middleton
Question’s Answer: Middleton
The “Shoemaker’s Holiday” was the creation of?
(a) Heywood
(b) Dekker Jonson
(c) Marston
(d) Ben
Question’s Answer: Dekker Jonson
James Shirley was born in London in which year?
(a) 1506
(b) 1596
(c) 1599
(d) 1560
Question’s Answer: 1596
Nearly all the weaknesses of William Shakespearean school are seen in Massinger’s
(a) The Virgin Martyr
(b) The Unnatural Combat
(c) The Roman Actor
(d) The Duke of Milan
Question’s Answer: The Unnatural Combat
John Ford’s ‘Tis a Pity She’s a Whore has for its theme.
(a) Revenge
(b) Jealousy
(c) Over-ambition
(d) Incest
Question’s Answer: Incest
he Broken Heart is a Play by John Ford and it was published in which year?
(a) 1607
(b) 1631
(c) 1620
(d) 1619
Question’s Answer: 1629
Ford’s ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore has the same theme as Beaumont and Fletcher’s
(a) The Knight of the Burning Pestle
(b) The Maid’s Tragedy
(c) Philaster
(d) A King and No King
Question’s Answer: A King and No King
Old Fortunatus is a morality play based on______legend.
(a) Russian
(b) German
(c) French
(d) Italian
Question’s Answer: German
Simon Eyre is a character of
(a) Eastward Ho
(b) The Shoemaker’s Holiday
(c) Poetaster
(d) None of these
Question’s Answer: The Shoemaker’s Holiday
Where James Shirley settled in 1636?
(a) Dublin
(b) Italy
(c) Paris
(d) London
Question’s Answer: Dublin
“The Gamester and The Lady of Pleasure” was written by Shirley in which year?
(a) London
(b) Italy
(c) Dublin
(d) France
Question’s Answer: Dublin
Which is the best known play of Shirley?
(a) The Wedding
(b) The Maid’s Revenge
(c) The Witty Pair One
(d) The Grateful Servant
Question’s Answer: The Maid’s Revenge
The Shoemaker’s Holiday was written in
(a) 1550
(b) 1610
(c) 1616
(d) 1600
Question’s Answer: 1600
Philip Massinger pass away in which year?
(a) 1640
(b) 1604
(c) 1600
(d) 1650
Question’s Answer: 1640
James Shirley forms a link between the
(a) Elizabethan and Post Elizabethan drama
(b) Elizabethan and Restoration drama
(c) Elizabethan and Classical drama
(d) Elizabethan and Jacobean drama
Question’s Answer: Elizabethan and Restoration drama
Which work of Dekker is a graphic picture of London smitten by plague?
(a) The Gull’s Hornbook
(b) The Shoemaker’s Holiday
(c) The Wonderful Year
(d) The Seven Deadly Sins of London
Question’s Answer: The Wonderful Year
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