University Wits

Which of the following causes accounts for the popularity of Elizabethan drama?

• Novels were few and could be enjoyed only by the educated

• National themes and sentiments were dramatized.

• Drama was the best way for the author to earn money

• All of the above

The best known play of George Peele is

• Tamburlaine

• Edward I

• The Old Vibe's Tale

• The Woman in the Moon

Who among the following University Wits is primarily known for his Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay?

• Lyly

• Peele

• Greene

• Kyd

Thomas Kyd’s The Spanish Tragedy shows conspicuous influence of

• Seneca

• Ariosto

• Homer

• Virgil

The Spanish Tragedy is historically impor­tant because it foreshadows Shakespeare’s

• King Lear

• Hamlet

• Macbeth

• Othello

One of the University Wits who was killed in a tavern brawl at the age of 29 was

• Kyd

• Greene

• Lyly

• Marlowe

Marlowe’s tragedies are all

• tragedies of royal people

• love tragedies

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• one-man tragedies

• revenge plays

Who coined the phrase, “Marlowe’s mighty line”?

• Ben Jonson

• Samuel Johnson

• R.L. Stevenson

• Richard Steele

One of the elements that Marlowe introduced into English tragedy is

• blank verse

• internal struggle

• supernatural characters

• a unified plot

162. The Jew of Malta is the story of insatiable passion for

• power

• woman

• wealth

• exotic land