About Chaucer

1.Chaucer lived during the reigns of – Edward III, Richard II and Henry IV 

2. Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales was written in – 1385 onwards 

3. Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales belongs to – 3rd Period of Chaucer’s literary career 

4. Norman Conquest took place in – 1066 (11th Century) 

5. Wyclif’s Bible was published in – 1380

6. William Langland’s The Vision of William concerning Piers the Plowman was written in – 1362-90 

7. The Travels of Sir John Maundeville was published in - 1400 

8. The Hundred Years’ War was begun in – 1338 (14th Century) 

9. The Hundred Years’ War was fought between – England and France 

10. Wat Tyler’s Rebellion took place in - 1381 

11. The War of Roses was fought between – The House of York and the House of Lancaster 

12. The War of Roses was fought during the period – 1455-86 

13. Thomas Malory’s Morte De Arthur was written in – 1470 (published in 1485) 

14. Caxton’s Printing Press was set up in – 1485 

15. Thomas More’s Utopia was published in – 1516 (Latin), 1551 (English) 

16. The First English Comedy, Roister Doister was written in – 1550 

17. Roister Doister was written by – Nicholas Udall .

18. The First English Tragedy, Gorboduc was written in – 1561 

19. Gorboduc was written by – Thomas Sackville, Lord of Buckhurst & Thomas Norton 

20. Tottel’s Miscellancy was published in - 1557 

21. Queen Elizabeth ascended the throne of England in – 1558 

22. Globe Theatre was built in – 1599 

23. The Elizabethan Age covers the period – 1558-1602 

24. The leader of University Wits was – Christopher Marlowe 

25. Marlowe’s first tragedy was – Tamburlaine the Great (1587) 

26. Shakespeare wrote – 37 plays 

27. Dryden’s All for Love is based on Shakespeare’s – Antony and Cleopatra
 
28. Shakespeare’s Sonnets were published in – 1609 

29. The hero of Spenser’s Faerie Queene is - King Arthur 

30. Spenser’s Faerie Queene is dedicated to – Queen Elizabeth 

31. Spenser dedicated his Shephearde’s Calendar to – Philip Sydney 

32. John Lyly’s Euphues, the Anatomy of Wit was published in 1579 and was contemporary with – Shepheardes Calender. 

33. White Devil and Duchess of Malfi were written by – John Webester 

34. Ben Jonson’s first play Every Man in his Humour was published in – 1598 

35. Ben Jonson is known for his – Comedy of Humours 

36. Ben Jonson’s play written wholly in prose – Bartholomew Fair 

37. Bacon’s essays are written in – Aphoristic style 

38. Bacon wrote essays in all – 106 essays (1st, 2nd, 3rd Edition – 10, 38, 58 essays) 

39. Authorised version of the Bible - 1611 .

40. The leader of Metaphysical School of Poets was – Henery Vaughan 

41. The term ‘Augustan’ was first applied to school of Poets by – Dr. Johnson 

42. The intellectual father of French Revolution – Rousseau 

43. Lyrical Ballads was published in – 1798 

44. The leader of the Pre-Raphaelite in England was – D.G. Rossetti 

45. The founder of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in England – William Holman Hunt 

46. The originator of the Oxford Movement was – John Keble 

47. The phrase ‘Stream of Consciousness’ is associated with – James Joyce 

48. The Hero of Homer’s Iliad is – Achilles 

49. Pope’s Rape of the Lock contains – Five Cantos 

50. A Ballad stanza generally contains – Four lines 

51. The greatest Epic in English is written by – Milton 

52. The next in command after Satan in Paradise Lost is – Beelzebub 

53. The meaning of L’Allegro is – A cheerful man .

54. A Pastoral Elegy written by Shelley on the death of Keats – Adonais

55. Everyman a famous play of 15th Century was a – Morality Play .

56. The villain in Duchess of Malfi is – Bosola

 57. Dryden’s plays in general are called – Heroic Plays 

58. The last play written by Shakespeare is – The Tempest 

59. Andrea Del Sarto in Browning’s Dramatic Monologue was – A renowned Painter 

60. Rabbi Ben Ezra was a – real Jewish Scholar.

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