Elizabethan Drama Quiz

Which Latin authors influenced English dramatists in the development of comedy?

• Sophocles and Euripides

• Plautus and Terence

• Plato and Aristotle

• Homer and Virgil

Who is considered the greatest dramatist amongst the predecessors of Shakespeare?

• Greene

• Marlowe

• Lyly

• Peele

Which play is regarded as the greatest tragic character in 16th-century literature outside the work of Shakespeare?

• Tamburlaine The Great

• The Wounds Of Civil War

• The Spanish Tragedy

• Dr. Faustus

Who wrote the first complete English comedy, 'Ralph Roister Doister'?

• Lyly

• Marlowe

• Greene

• Peele

Which University Wit is known for writing comedies that mixed reality with fantasy?

• Lodge

• Marlowe

• Nashe

• Kyd

Which English monarch was reigning during the time of the Chronicle Plays?

• King Henry VIII

• King James I

• Queen Mary I

• Queen Elizabeth I

Who raised blank verse to a high level in English tragic drama?

• Lyly

• Peele

• Greene

• Marlowe

Which play by Thomas Norton and Thomas Sackville is considered the first English Senecan tragedy?

• The Wounds Of Civil War

• The Spanish Tragedy

• Gorboduc

• The Misfortunes of Arthur

Which author wrote comedies for an audience of courtiers with an euphuistic style and classical legend?

• Marlowe

• Greene

• Lyly

• Peele

Who wrote 'Tamburlaine The Great' and 'Dr. Faustus'?

• Marlowe

• Peele

• Greene

• Lyly