CLASS 70 WS

Where was William Shakespeare baptized?

Holy Trinity Church Stratford

Who was the father of William Shakespeare?

John Shakespeare

Who was the mother of William Shakespeare?

Mary Arden

Who was Shakespeare’s daughter born after 6 months of marriage?

Susanna

What were the names of Shakespeare’s twins?

Hamnet and Judith

Where is Poets’ Corner located?

Westminster Abbey

What is the sobriquet of William Shakespeare?

Bard of Avon

What was Shakespeare’s occupation?

English Elizabethan poet, actor and Renaissance playwright

Who published the First Folio of Shakespeare?

John Hemings and Henry Condell

How many plays were included in the First Folio?

36 plays

Which play was not included in the First Folio?

Pericles, Prince of Tyre

How many sonnets did Shakespeare write?

154 sonnets

When were Shakespeare’s sonnets published?

20th May 1609

Who published Shakespeare’s sonnets?

Thomas Thorpe

On which source did Shakespeare depend for his historical material?

Holinshed’s Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland

Which works of Shakespeare have original plots?

Love’s Labour’s Lost, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Merry Wives of Windsor, The Tempest

Name Shakespeare’s four great tragedies.

Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth

Name Shakespeare’s four great comedies.

Much Ado About Nothing, Twelfth Night, The Merchant of Venice, As You Like It

Name Shakespeare’s Roman plays.

Coriolanus, Julius Caesar, Antony and Cleopatra

What are Shakespeare’s dramatic romances (tragicomedies)?

Pericles, Cymbeline, The Winter’s Tale, The Tempest

Who coined the term “problem plays” in 1896?

Frederick S. Boas

Which plays are referred to as “problem plays”?

All’s Well That Ends Well, Measure for Measure, Troilus and Cressida

Which are Shakespeare’s last major tragedies?

Antony and Cleopatra, Coriolanus

Who called Macbeth “an artistic success”?

T. S. Eliot

Who called Hamlet “an artistic failure”?

T. S. Eliot

On what basis did T. S. Eliot call Hamlet an artistic failure?

Objective correlative

Which play is called the “Mona Lisa” of literature?

Hamlet

In which essay did T. S. Eliot discuss Hamlet?

Hamlet and His Problem

Which roles were played by Shakespeare in his plays?

Adam (As You Like It), Ghost (Hamlet’s father), Chorus (Henry V), King Duncan (Macbeth)

Which is the longest Shakespearean play?

Hamlet

Which is the shortest Shakespearean play?

The Comedy of Errors

Into how many periods did Edward Dowden divide Shakespeare’s literary career?

Four periods

Name the four periods of Shakespeare’s literary career according to Edward Dowden.

In the Workshop, In the World, Out of the Depth, On the Heights

On which book is the chronology of Shakespeare’s plays based?

The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare by Michael Dobson

Name Shakespeare’s poems published in 1593 and 1594.

Venus and Adonis; The Rape of Lucrece

Which work of Shakespeare was published in 1599 related to pilgrimage?

The Passionate Pilgrim

Which work of Shakespeare was published in 1609 as a collection of sonnets?

The Sonnets (Published)

Which phrase meaning intercourse was used by Shakespeare in Othello?

The beast with two backs

Which word was invented by William Shakespeare?

Assassination

How many sonnets were directed to an aristocratic young man?

126 sonnets

Who were the last sonnets (127–152) about?

A dark woman

What did Shakespeare seem to have for the dark woman?

Mixed feelings

Which famous essay on Shakespeare was written by T. S. Eliot?

Hamlet and His Problem

Who wrote the essay “On the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth” (1823)?

Thomas De Quincey

Who wrote “Shakespearean Comedy (1938)” and “Shakespearean Tragedy (1948)”?

H. B. Charlton

Who wrote “Hamlet and the Distracted Globe” (1978)?

Andrew John Gurr

Who said “If ever any author deserved the name of originality, it was Shakespeare”?

Alexander Pope

Who said “He was not of an age, but for all time”?

Ben Jonson

Who said “Dante and Shakespeare divide the modern world between them, there is no third”?

T. S. Eliot

Who called Shakespeare “the greatest genius that perhaps human nature had yet produced”?

S. T. Coleridge

On which work is the poem “Venus and Adonis” based?

Ovid’s Metamorphoses

In what stanza form is “Venus and Adonis” written?

Stanzas of six lines (ABABCC)

In what meter is “Venus and Adonis” written?

Iambic pentameter

What type of poem is “The Rape of Lucrece”?

Narrative poem

To whom is “The Rape of Lucrece” dedicated?

Henry Wriothesley

How many stanzas are there in “The Rape of Lucrece”?

265 stanzas

What is the rhyme scheme of “The Rape of Lucrece”?

ABABBCC (rhyme royal)

What type of poem is “A Lover’s Complaint”?

Narrative poem

In what form is “A Lover’s Complaint” written?

Seven-line stanzas