From Lec 1 - Lec 6 (midterm)

• Elizabethan literary age is not considered as beginning until?

  1579
• SIR THOMAS WYATT and the EARL OF SURREY wrote?

  sonnets
• Shakespeare’s sonnets rhyme as?

  ababcdcdefefgg
• Spenser‘s greatest work?

  the Faerie Queene
• ‘Go and catch a falling star’ is a poem written by?

  John Donne
• The Comedy of Manners does not describe a genre of realistic, satirical comedy of the Restoration period. False
• The Comedy of Manners questions and comments upon the manners and social conventions of a greatly sophisticated, artificial society. True
• is the period of the return to rule by kings, in 1660 after twenty years of rule by Parliament?

  The restoration
• Wrote a well-known diary which opens on January 1st, 1660, and ends on May 31st, 1669, when his eyesight began to fail?

  SAMUEL PEPYS
• It is generally agreed that the English poet second after Shakespeare is?

  JOHN MILTON
• At college who was known as The Lady of Christ's?

  JOHN MILTON
• Who was considered by the men of his own time to be the best living lyric poet. He wrote well about the English country and its flowers?

  ROBERT HERRICK
• The Spanish Tragedy is in some ways rather like Shakespeare’s Hamlet. A ghost appears, demanding revenge; but it appears to the father of a murdered son, not to the son of a murdered father, as in?

  Hamlet
• The Jew of Malta is written by?

  CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE
• Who was probably acted in 1588. The play is based on the well-known story of a man who sold his soul to the devil so as to have power and riches in this life?


  Dr. Faustus
• is the first of Shakespeare's great tragedies?

  Romeo and Juliet
• The Merchant of Venice is one of the greatest comedies by Shakespeare.
• A Midsummer Night's Dream is a play written by?

  shakespeare
• The poet who introduced the Elizabethan age proper was?

  EDMUND SPENSER
• was less fresh and more interested in the mind than in heart or eye.?

  the Jacobean age
• Ben Jonson is the father of English literary criticism
• The greatest old English poem is Beowulf.
• The Canterbury tales total lines are 17,000
• Genesis A: is long and dull, and little more than old history taken from the Bible and put into poor Old English verse.
• Genesis B: is short, and is concerned with the beginning of the world and the fall of the angels.