Renaissance Playwrights Other Than Shakespeare
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Questions and Answers
- 1.Who was best know for his partnership with playwright John Fletcher?
- A.
William Shakespeare
- B.
Francis Beaumont
- C.
Cyril Toureur
- 2.Which playwright for "The Shoemaker's Holiday?"
- A.
Thomas Dekker
- B.
Thomas Kyd Thomas Kyd
- C.
Thomas Heywood
- 3.Ben Jonson was the only playwright to partner with William Shakespeare.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 4.This playwright was a principal dramatist for the companies of Queen Anne's men and Lady Elizabeth's men___.
- A.
John Lyly
- B.
Christopher Marlowe
- C.
Thomas Heywood
- 5.Thomas Middleton was a pioneering dramatist.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 6.Francis Beaumont was the first unofficial poet laureate of England during the time of James I.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 7.Who was the character, Lampatho Doria said to satirize playwright Ben Jonson?
- A.
John Ford
- B.
William Shakespeare
- C.
John Marston
- 8.Philip Massinger was one of the bleakest authors of the Elizabethan of Jacobean periods.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 9.The playwright to surpass William Shakespeare was___
- A.
Ben Jonson
- B.
Christopher Marlowe
- C.
George Chapman
- 10.Thomas Dekker was a harsh moralist.
- A.
True
- B.
False
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