Objective UGC NET- Age of Elizabeth

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Objective UGC NET- Age of Elizabeth Part 1

1. The famous translation of Ovid's Metamorphosis into English was made by

-Arthur Golding

2."Donne would be hanged for not keeping the regular accent." Whose commented thus?

Ben Jonson

3.Among the University Wits who was known as "the true child of Renaissance" ?

Christopher Marlowe

4. The best trends of Reformation were presented by Spenser in his?

-Faerie Queene

5. Thomas Kyd wrote his Spanish Tragedy in the style of?

-Seneca

6. Alexander and Compaspe is a play written by

-John Lyly

7. Mortimer, Isabella and Gaveston are characters who appears in Marlowe's play

-Edward II

8. Who does Grierson - Smith call the 'morning star of Elizabethan drama' ?

-Christopher Marlowe

9. Who is the author of Steel Glass ?

Gascoigne

10. In which year was the Globe Theatre built ?

1599

11. Shakespeare's Sonnets were first published in

1609

12.When Sidney died, Spenser wrote an elegy on his death. What was it’s title?

Astrophel

13. Sidney's Apologie for Poetrie is a reply to :

Gosson's School of Abuse

14. In his Apologie for Poetrie, Sidney :

defends the Three Dramatic Unities

15. ––  –– University Wit has written only Tragedies.

Marlowe

16. While referring to whom does Ruskin said, "He has only heroines and no heroes" ?

Shakespeare

17. The Faerie Queene is an allegory. In this Queen Elizabeth is allegorized through the character of :

Gloriana

18. Who calls Spenser the 'Poets' Poet' ?

Charles Lamb

19. For what is the phrase 'The Mousetrap' used by Shakespeare ?

The play within the play in Hamlet

20. Spenser dedicates the Preface to The Faerie Queene to :

Sir Walter Raleigh

21. 'Spenser writ no language.' Who said this ?

Ben Jonson

22. Bacon's Essays are modeled on the Essays of :

Montaigne

23. "A place sheweth the man and it sheweth some to the better, and some to the worse." These lines occur in ?

Bacon’s ‘Of Great Place’

24. “I Know I have the body but of a weak and feeble woman; but I have the heart and stomach of King, ?” These lines are spoken by…

Queen Elizabeth, Tilbury speech 1588

 25. "......... a mixture of falsehood is like alloy in coin of gold and silver, which may make the metal work the better, but it embaseth it". In which essay of Bacon do these lines occur ?

Of Truth

26. "We are such stuff

As dreams are made on, and our little life Is rounded with a sleep"

Who speaks these lines?

Prospero

27. "Neither a borrower nor a lender be :

Polonius (Hamlet)

28. Who speaks about Shakespeare thus :"Others abide our question. Thou art free, We ask and ask - thou smilest and art still Out - topping knowledge."

Matthew Arnold

29. "The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, Are of imagination all compact."

In which play do these lines occur ?

A Mid - Summer Night's Dream

30. Who wrote Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus?

w. w. Greg.