Modern Drama

Who is associated with Comedy of Humours?

• William Shakespeare

• Ben Jonson

• John Webster

• John Fletcher

Which of the following plays by Shakespeare is considered a Romantic Tragedy?

• Hamlet

• King Lear

• Twelfth Night

• Romeo and Juliet

Which of the following was NOT considered a "University Wits" representative?

• Christopher Marlowe

• Robert Greene

• Thomas Kyd

• William Shakespeare

What are the key features of a Jacobean play?

• bloodshed, pessimism and political strife

• romance,separation and reunion

• Irish Independence struggle

• Reformation of the English Church

Identify the WRONG pair.

• John Webster - Duchess of Malfi

• Sheldon - School for Scandal

• Marlow - Tamburlaine

• William Shakespeare - The Spanish Tragedy

Comedy of Manners was inspired from -

• Ben Jonson's Comedy of Humours

• William Shakespeare's Revenge Tragedies

• John Lyly's Italian Comedies

• Homer's epica similes

Neo-Classical writers wrote dramas in imitation/emulation of -

• The Romantics

• The Elizabethans

• The Classics

• None of the above

When were women first allowed to act on stage?

• during the Elizabethan times

• during the reign of Charles II

• during the reign of Queen Victoria

• during the reign of Henry VIII

Who gave the idea of Hamartia, anagnorisis and peripeteia as important for a good tragedy?

• Horace

• Homer

• Aristotle

• Philip Sydney

Which regime in England placed restrictions on theatres?

• Charles II's

• Henry VIII's

• Queen Elizabeth's

• Oliver Cromwell's