Who completed “Hero and Leander” a Poem by Christopher Marlowe and _________.
(a) Chapman
(b) William Shakespeare
(c) Ben Jonson
(d) Heywood
Question’s Answer: Chapman
The resounding use of exotic place in Paradise Lost has its origin in
(a) Arden of Feversham
(b) Tamburlaine
(c) The Spanish Tragedy
(d) None of these
Question’s Answer: Tamburlaine
Tamburlaine is the perfect illustration of the view maintained in
(a) Kyd’s The Spanish Tragedy
(b) Milton’s Paradise Lost
(c) Hobbes’ Leviathan
(d) Marlowe’s Tamburlaine
Question’s Answer: Hobbes’ Leviathan
Who gave the name ‘Sporting Kyd’ to Thomas Kyd?
(a) Ben Jonson
(b) William Shakespeare
(c) Marlowe
(d) John Lyly
Question’s Answer: Ben Jonson
Marlowe’s mighty lines’ first came into Elizabethan drama with
(a) Dr. Faustus
(b) Edward II
(c) Tamburlaine
(d) None of these
Question’s Answer: Tamburlaine
Thomas Kyd is well-known for adhering to the
(a) Senecan School
(b) Romantic School
(c) Medieval School
(d) Primitive School
Question’s Answer: Senecan School
Tamburlaine the Great was first produced in
(a) 1554-55
(t) 1560-61
(c) 1587-88
(d) 1540-41
Question’s Answer: 1587-88
Tamburlaine is the story of ____.
(a) A sailor
(b) A French soldier
(c) A Scythian shepherd
(d) A Roman soldier
Question’s Answer: A Scythian shepherd
The ‘blood and thunder’ element of Thomas Kyd’s drama proved one of the of Pre-William Shakespearean
drama.
(a) Nemesis
(b) Experiments
(c) Weaknesses
(d) Attractive features
Question’s Answer: Attractive features
The most celebrated and the most successful of Marlowe’s character’s speech was by
(a) Helen of Troy
(b) Edward II
(c) Gaveston
(d) Dr. Faustus
Question’s Answer: Dr. Faustus
Thomas Kyd was the son of a parent with a profession of ___________ .
(a) Wine merchant
(b) Dramatist
(c) Writer
(d) London notary
Question’s Answer: London notary
The most popular of Kyd’s plays is
(a) Cornelia
(b) Jeronimo
(c) Solyman and Perseda
(d) The Spanish Tragedy
Question’s Answer: The Spanish Tragedy
Kyd’s The Spanish Tragedy was translated into German and Dutch and one of the Elizabethan dramatists is supposed to have collaborated with him. Who was he?
(a) Ben Jonson
(b) Fletcher
(c) Middleton
(d) Beaumont
Question’s Answer: Ben Jonson
Thomas Nash distinguished himself a
(a) Playwright
(b) Humorist
(c) Satirist
(d) Allegorist
Question’s Answer: Satirist
Nash’s The Unfortunate Traveller was published in
(b) 1594
(a) 1504
(c) 1590
(d) 1540
Question’s Answer: 1594
Nash’s The Unfortunate Traveller the first Elizabethan
(a) Tragedy
(b) Romance
(c) Novel
(d) Comedy
Question’s Answer: Novel
Marlowe’s The Jew of Malta is a dramatic presentation of
(a) Machiavellian man
(b) A duke
(c) A scholar
(d) A king
Question’s Answer: Machiavellian man
Thomas Kyd was the founder of
(a) Dramatic romance
(b) tragedy
(c) Satire
(d) Romantic comedy
Question’s Answer: Romantic comedy
Which Elizabethan fiction writer writes more like eighteenth century novel?
(a) Deloney
(b) Lyly
(c) Nash
(d) Greene
Question’s Answer: Deloney
The first picaresque novel is
(a) Anatomy of Absurdity
(b) Terrors of Night
(c) The Life of Jack Wilton
(d) None of these
Question’s Answer: The Life of Jack Wilton
Thomas Nash had a rich fund humour that resembles that of
(a) Rabelais
(b) Dr Jonathan Swift
(c) Dryden
(d) None of these
Question’s Answer: Rabelais
Who was the first great realist whose graphically depicted contempor London life and its manners?
(a) Thomas Sackville
(b) Thomas Deloney
(c) Robert Greene
(d) Thomas Nash
Question’s Answer: Thomas Nash
Which work of Nash is a study of superstition of the age?
(a) Christ’s ears over
(b) Anatomy of Absurdity
(c) The Unfortunate Traveller
(d) Terrors of Night
Question’s Answer: Terrors of Night
“The Life of Jack Wilton” : A Novel by Thomas Nashe is a _________.
(a) Romance
(b) Tragedy
(c) Comedy
(d) Both tragedy and comedy
Question’s Answer: Both tragedy and comedy
When John Lyly was bor?
(b) 1570
(a) 1554
(c) 1544
(d) 1540
Question’s Answer: 1540
Nash pass away at the age of
(a) 25
(b) 30
(c) 40
(d) 33
Question’s Answer: 33
John Lyly wrote his Euphues when he was in
(a) M.A.
(b) B.A.
(c) Matriculation
(d) Higher Secondary
Question’s Answer: M.A.
John Lyly wrote some Latin verses in praise of the Queen in
(a) 1597
(b) 1580
(c) 1590
(d) 1570
Question’s Answer: 1597
The Arraignment of Paris contains an elaborate tribute to the
(a) James I
(b) Charles I
(c) Queen Elizabeth
(d) James II
Question’s Answer: Queen Elizabeth
Greene’s Pandosto supplied plot to William Shakespeare’s
(a) The Tempest
(b) Pericles
(c) King
(d) The Winter’s Tale
Question’s Answer: The Winter’s Tale
Lyly’s The Golden Book of Marcus Aurelius was translated by
(a) Francis Bacon
(b) John Foxe
(c) Thomas North
(d) Richard Hooker
Question’s Answer: Thomas North
Which Lyly’s comedy stands apart from his other plays being
in the tradition of Plautus and Terence?
(a) Midas
(b) Euphues
(c) Sapho and Phao
(d) Mother Bombie
Question’s Answer: Mother Bombie
George Peele was born about
(a) 1558
(b) 1530
(c) 1530
(d) 1500
Question’s Answer: 1558
The Arraignment of Paris, Edward I, The Battle of Alcazar and The Old Wives Tale are written by
(a) Thomas Kyd
(b) Thomas Nash
(c) George Peele
(d) John Lyly
Question’s Answer: George Peele
Which work of Robert Greene is best known for its early’ reference to William Shakespeare?
(a) Pandosto
(b) Groatsworth of Wit Bought with a million of Repentance
(c) Menaphon
(d) None of these
Question’s Answer: Groatsworth of Wit Bought with a million of Repentance
As a writer of prose romance, Greene is remembered for
(a) Mamilia
(b) Pandosto
(c) Menaphon
(d) Never too Late
Question’s Answer: Pandosto
David and Fair Bathsheba was the creation of George Peele in
(a) 1599
(b) 1595
(c) 1596
(d) 1590
Question’s Answer: 1599
Which work of Robert Greene gave the plot to William Shakespeare’s The Winter’s
(a) Pandosto
(b) Groat’s Worth of Wit
(c) Orlando Furioso
(d) Friar Bacon
Question’s Answer: Pandosto
Robert Greene entered St. John’s College Cambridge at the age of
(a) 16
(b) 18
(c) 17
(d) 15
Question’s Answer: 15
Which is the first work of Robert Greene?
(a) Mamillia
(b) Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay
(c) Orlando Furioso
(d) Pandosto
Question’s Answer: Orlando Furioso
Robert Greene’s Looking Glass for London and England was written in collaboration with
(a) George Peele
(b) Thomas Nash
(c) John Lyly
(d) Thomas Lodge
Question’s Answer: Thomas Lodge
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