英美戏剧复习题
1. Pyramus and Thisbe, as an interlude, appears in Shakespeare?s comedy ___.
A .As You Like It
B.A Midsummer Night?s Dream
C. Much Ado About Nothing
D. The Twelfth Night
2. The first English theatre was built in 1576 by ___.
A. James Burbage
B. David Garrick
C. Thomas Nashe
D. Kitty Clive
3. Which of the following does Not belong to the University Wits?
A. Robert Greene
B. Thomas Lodge
C. John Lyly
D. George Saintsbury
4. The three sentences “Time is”, “Time was”, “Time is past” appear in the play ___.
A. Orlando Furioso
B. Orlando Innamorato
C. The Honorable History of Friar Bacon and Friar Bongay
D. Waiting for Godot
5. Christopher Marlowe wrote the following but ___.
A. The Jew of Malta
B. Tamburlaine the Great
C. The Spanish Tragedy
D. The Tragic History of Dr. Faustus
6.Which of the following dose Not belong to Shakespeare?s four Great Tragedies?
A.Macbeth
B.King Lear
C.Hamlet
D.Juliet Caesar
7. Ben Jonson?s dramatic production usually falls under the category known as ___.
A. Comedy of Manners
B. Comedy of Humors
C. Theatre of the Absurd
D. Kitchen Sink Drama
8. The following traditional villainous characters on stage: Iago, Mosca, Brutus, appear respectively in ___, ___ and ___.
A. Othello, Julius Caesar, The Spanish Tragedy
B. Othello, Volpone, Julius Caesar
C. The Merchant of Venice, Volpone, Julius Caesar
D. Othello, Julius Caesar, Sejanus his Fall
9. Apart from being a dramatist, George Chapman is often renowned for his translation of ___.
hermitA. Homer
B. Virgil
C. Ovid
D. Ludovico Ariosto
10. The best-known pair among Elizabethan theatrical collaborators are ___ and ___.
A. Robert Greene and Thomas Nashe
B. Thomas Lodge and Thomas Nashe
C. John Fletcher and Robert Greene
D. John Fletcher and Francis Beaumont
11. Which of the following dos e Not belong to the genre called “revenge tragedy”?
A. The Spanish Tragedy
B. The Revenge of Bussy D? Ambois
C. The Jew of Malta
D. Romeo and Juliet
12. Which of the following period in English drama is also dubbed as “the Age of Dryden”?
A. The Restoration
B. The Elizabethan Age
C. The Victorian Age
D. High Renaissance
13. The first woman to write professionally for the English stage is ___.
A. Hannah More
B. Hannah Cowley
C. Elizabeth Inchbald
D. Aphra Behn
14. Which of the following dose Not fit in with the rest three in terms of the dramatic genre?
A. The Country Wife
B. The Plain-Dealer
C. The Old Bachelor
D. All for Love
15. “A Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage”, a harsh attack against the Restoration Stage, is written by ___.
A. Thomas Rymer
B. Jeremy Collier
C. John Dryden
D. William Congreve
16.Charles Macklin, the 18th century actor and playwright was especially known for playing the stage character ___.
A. Shylock
B. King Lear
C. Romeo
D. Julius Caesar
17. The characters Peachum and Mrs. Malaprop appear respectively in ___ and ___.
A. The Rivals and The School for Scandal
B. The Rivals and The Beggar?s Opera
C. The School for Scandal and The beggar;s Opera
D. The beggar?s Opera and The Rivals
18. Tony Lumpkin is a mischievous young man that appears in the comedy ___.
A. The School for Scandal
B. The Rivals
C. The Good Natured Man
D. She Stoops to Conquer
19. The man who said of “the whole century from 1720 to 1820” as a “dreary desert” in English drama is ___.
A. Oscar Wilde
B. George Bernard Shaw
C. William Archer
D. Henrik Ibsen
20. Which of the following is Not written by George Bernard Shaw?
A. Major Barbara
B. Pygmalion
C. Mrs. Warren?s Profession
D. Lady Windermere?s Fan
21. The well-known line “Was this the face that launched a thousand ships and burnt the topless towers of Ilium?” aims at portraying the beauty of ___.
A. Annabel Lee
B. Helen of Troy
C. Nightingale, the Lady of the Lamp
D.T he Lady of the Lake
22. Name the line that is immediately after Hamlet?s “to be or not to be that is the question”.
A. Shall I compare thee to a summer?s day
B.I Fear the Greeks even if they bring the gifts
C. Let nature be our teacher
D. Whether …tis nobler to suffer the slings and arrow of outrageous forune or to ta ke arms against a sea of troubles
23. Which of the following authors is known for attacking Shakespeare as an “upstart crow, beautified with our feathers”?

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