The first regular English comedy, based on the model of the Latin comedy, is attributed to ?
Nicholas Udall
Thomas Colwell
Lord Burghley
None of the above
Correct Answer :
A. Nicholas Udall
Related Questions
Through his magic, Faustus is visited first by which of the devils angels?
Mephastophilis
beelzebub
Aamon
None of the above
He married to the Anne Hathaway at the age of_______ in______.
18, 1582
17, 1581
16, 1580
15, 1579
Which of the following qualities would most accurately describe Faustus character at the beginning of the play?
kind
stupid
sensitive
arrogant
Shakespeare made Stratford his regular home in:
About 1611
About 1610
About 1609
About 1608
John Donnes The Anniversaries is a:
An elegy in two parts
An epic in three parts
A ballad in four parts
None of these
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
what was the duration of hundred years war?
1300 to 1350
1337 to 1453
1302 to 1343
None of the above
The use of whale-roadfor sea and life-housefor body are examples of what literary technique, popular in Old English poetry?
symbolism
simile
metonymy
kenning
In Paradise regained who regained the paradise?
Satan
Jesus
Adam and Eve
Only Adam
Ann Hathaway was _________ years older than Shakespeare:
7
8
9
10
What was the occupation of Christopher Marlowes father?
Carpenter
Civil servant
Cobbler
Farmer
one of Chaucers daughter was…………?
a musician
an astronomer
a nun
None of the above
University Wits were those who:
Had training at two universities
gave curriculum of two universities
Erected two universities
None of the above
Ancrene Riwle is a manual of instruction for
courtiers entering the service of Richard II
translators of French romances
women who have chosen to live as religious recluses
knights preparing for their first tournament
What was the title of the play by Marlowe that portrayed the events surrounding the Saint Bartholomews Day Massacre in 1572?
The Massacre at Berlin
The Massacre at Rome
The Massacre at Copenhagen
The Massacre at Paris
Marlow died of?
Illness
stabbing
poisoned
Hanged
Greville was biographer of:
Edmund Spencer
John Donne
Sir Philip Sidney
John Milton
Chaucer became a page to which kings daughter-in-law?
Edward III
Richard II
Henry IV
None of the above
Shakespeares only son Hamnet died in?
1595
1596
1597
1598
Who took Degree at fifteen from Cambridge in 1518?
Thomas Nash
Thomas More
Thomas lodge
Thomas Wyatt
Renaissance first came to the:
France
Italy
England
Rome
Marlowe born in________
1562
1563
1564
1565
Who succeeded Lyly?
Robert Greene
John Milton
Philip Sidney
Christopher Marlowe
What is the first extended written specimen of Old English?
Boethiuss Consolidation of Philosophy
Saint Jeromes translation of the Bible
Malorys Morte Darthur
a code of laws promulgated by King Ethelbert
What is Faerie Queene:
An allegory
An epic
A ballad
A sonnet
One of Marlowes most famous poems was an account of which lovers?
Anthony and Cleopatra
Hero and Leander
Troilus and Cressida
Apollo and Hyacinth
what was chaucers profession?
a poet
a merchant
a civil servant
None of the above
Who born in 1422:
William Caxton
Robert Henry
John Lyly
Thomas more
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.
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