The collection of the papers and correspondence of a well-to-do Norfolk family is known as:
Letters to the Margret Paston
Margret Paston to John Paston
The Paston letters
To John Paston
Correct Answer :
C. The Paston letters
Related Questions
Which influential medieval text purported to reveal the secrets of the afterlife?
Dantes Divine Comedy
Boccaccios Decameron
The Dream of the Rood
Chaucers Legend of Good Women
Which hero made his earliest appearance in Celtic literature before becoming a staple subject in French, English, and German literatures?
Beowulf
Arthur
Caedmon
Augustine of Canterbury
Paradise lost was lost by:
Eve
Adam
Both a and b
Satan
During Spencers visit to his Kinsfolk in Lancashire he felt in love a woman and who figures as__________________ much of his work:
Rosalind
Belinda
Both a and b
None of above
Who translated Utopia in English language:
Thomas More
Thomas lodge
Ralph Robinson
William Tyndale
In Paradise regained who regained the paradise?
Satan
Jesus
Adam and Eve
Only Adam
Spencer married in June 11, 1594 to ?
Elizabeth Wilton D/O Lord Grey De Wilton
Elizabeth Raleigh D/O Walter Raleigh
Elizabeth Boyle D/O James Boyle
Elizabeth Boyle D/O Richard Boyle
Which of the following are University wits:
John Gower and Robert Peele
John Skelton and Thomas lodge
John Lyly and Robert Greene
John Donne and Thomas Nashe
Why did the rebels of 1381 target the church, beheading the archbishop of Canterbury?
Their leaders were Lollards, advocating radical religious reform.
The common people were still essentially pagan.
They believed that writing, a skill largely confined to the clergy, was a form of black magic.
The church was among the greatest of oppressive landowners.
Shakespeares only son Hamnet died in?
1595
1596
1597
1598
in which year chaucer was imprisoned by the French?
1360
1357
1378
1358
Philip Sidney was born on 30th November:
1553
1554
1555
1550
Renaissance first came to the:
France
Italy
England
Rome
In whose reign Morality plays began?
Henry five
Elizabeth one
Henry six
Henry eight
How did Henry II, the first of Englands Plantagenet kings, acquire vast provinces in southern France?
the Battle of Hastings
Saint Patricks mission
the Fourth Lateran Council
his marriage to Eleanor of Aquitaine
Only a small proportion of medieval books survive, large numbers having been destroyed in:
the Anglo-Saxon Conquest beginning in the 1450s.
the Norman Conquest of 1066.
the Peasant Uprising of 1381.
the Dissolution of the Monasteries in the 1530s.
Astrophel and Stella is a:
Allegory
Epic
Sonnet
Ballad
Greville was biographer of:
Edmund Spencer
John Donne
Sir Philip Sidney
John Milton
Marlow died of?
Illness
stabbing
poisoned
Hanged
Which book Edmund Spenser dedicated to the Philip Sidney:
The Faerie Queene
The shepheaedes Calendar
Complaints
Colin Clouts come home again
Popular English adaptations of romances appealed primarily to
the royal family and upper orders of the nobility
the lower orders of the nobility
agricultural laborers
the clergy
Who born in 1422:
William Caxton
Robert Henry
John Lyly
Thomas more
Which powerful figure does Faustus ridicule with his new-found powers?
The Pope
The Holy Roman Emperor
The King of England
The King of France
In the tragic history of Doctor Faustus. Faustus was a :
German scholar
French scholar
Spanish scholar
Greek scholar
By Shakespeare had established himself in London as an actor and dramatist:
1590
1591
1592
1593
Through his magic, Faustus is visited first by which of the devils angels?
Mephastophilis
beelzebub
Aamon
None of the above
what was chaucers profession?
a poet
a merchant
a civil servant
None of the above
Who declared him as Britains greatest dramatist in 1598?
Queen Elizabeth
Francis Meres, a lawyer
Burbage, an actor
King James
William Shakespeare was……. child of John and Mary:
second
fourth
third
fifth
What does Faustus promise to the devil in exchange for great knowledge, riches and power for a period of 24 years?
his body
his house
his soul
his horse