Who succeeded Lyly?
Robert Greene
John Milton
Philip Sidney
Christopher Marlowe
Correct Answer :
A. Robert Greene
Related Questions
Which poet was first who used metaphysical poetry among his contemporaries:
Edmund Spenser
John Milton
John Donne
Sir Philip Sidney
Who of the following is known as Child Of Renaissance?
Marlowe
Milton
Spencer
Johnson
When, is it estimated, was Dr Faustus first performed?
1594
1604
1590
1593
Who was the son of a rich London merchant and born in 1557?
Thomas Nah
Thomas lodge
Thomas Kyd
Thomas Hardy
which of these is not certain about Chaucer?
his birth date
his death year
his fathers name
None of the above
In the tragic history of Doctor Faustus. Faustus was a :
German scholar
French scholar
Spanish scholar
Greek scholar
Marlowes poem The Passionate Shepherd to His Love begins with the line Come live with me and be my love; which other English author wrote a famous poem beginning with this line?
William Shakespeare
Thomas Kyd
John Dryden
John Donne
Paradise lost was lost by:
Eve
Adam
Both a and b
Satan
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
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.
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
Who born in 1422:
William Caxton
Robert Henry
John Lyly
Thomas more
He married to the Anne Hathaway at the age of_______ in______.
18, 1582
17, 1581
16, 1580
15, 1579
Shakespeare made Stratford his regular home in:
About 1611
About 1610
About 1609
About 1608
Greville was biographer of:
Edmund Spencer
John Donne
Sir Philip Sidney
John Milton
Faustus servant shares his name with a famous German composer. Who?
Bach
Schumann
Beethoven
Wagner
what was chaucers profession?
a poet
a merchant
a civil servant
None of the above
what did Chaucers wife use to do?
lady-in-waiting to Queen Philip pa of Hainaut
nurse of royal court
governess to Henry IV
None of the above
What was vellum?
parchment made of animal skin
the service owed to a lord by his peasants (villeins)
unrhymed iambic pentameter
an unbreakable oath of fealty
The Prince Of Poets in his time, on whom grave the inscription is given?
Sir Philip Sidney
John Milton
Edmund Spencer
John Donne
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
chaucer was fined in 1367 or 1366 for…………..?
beating a friar in a London street
for writing poetry against the church
for crossing the border of Great Britain
None of the above
In whose reign Morality plays began?
Henry five
Elizabeth one
Henry six
Henry eight
Renaissance first came to the:
France
Italy
England
Rome
In Paradise regained who regained the paradise?
Satan
Jesus
Adam and Eve
Only Adam
In Marlowes play, what was the name of the Jew of Malta?
Lazarus
Solomon
Barabas
Shylock
Utopia was first printed in:
1615
1516
1517
1518
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 declared him as Britains greatest dramatist in 1598?
Queen Elizabeth
Francis Meres, a lawyer
Burbage, an actor
King James
46How many years of happiness was Dr Faustus promised by the Devil?
16
20
24
28