Beginning to Elizabethan

Question 1

What are the Thebian plays?

Answer 1

Ajax, Antigone, Women of Trachis, Oedipus Rex, Electra, Philoctetes and Oedipus at Colonus

Question 2

Medea, Hippolytus are plays by?

Answer 2

Euripides

Question 3

Who was the father of Comedy?

Answer 3

Aristophenes
Clouds: ” the historical teacher and philosopher Socrates replaces the Greek gods with goddesses called the Clouds, which are represented by the Chorus. He argues that the Clouds, not the gods, create the weather.

Question 4

Plautus plays

Answer 4

Menaechmi inspired Comedy of errors.

Question 5

Terrence plays

Answer 5

Andria (The Girl from Andros) (166 BC)
Hecyra (The Mother-in-Law) (165 BC)
Heauton Timorumenos (The Self-Tormentor) (163 BC)
Phormio (161 BTerenceC)
Eunuchus (161 BC)
Adelphoe (The Brothers) (160 BC)

Question 6

Oldest Church drama

Answer 6

Quem Quarritis trope (Whom are you Seeking)

Question 7

Earliest Miracle play in England?

Answer 7

Ludus Santa de Katherina”, performed in Dunstable around AD 1110.

Question 8

Corpus Christi was revived by?

Answer 8

Council of Vienna in 1311.

Question 9

Cycles in Corpus Christi?

Answer 9

The York with 48 plays, the Chester with 25 plays, the Wakefield with 32 plays and the Coventry with 42 plays

Question 10

Everyman” and “The Castle of Perseverance” are?

Answer 10

Morality Plays

Question 11

The Four P’s was performed in?

Answer 11

1497

Question 12

First Comedy?

Answer 12

“Ralph Roister Doister” written by Nicholas Udall, a school master in London in 1556
Rich widow Christian Custance betrayed by Gawyn Goodluck
Conman Matthew Merrygreeke

Question 13

First Tragedy?

Answer 13

• The Tragedie of Gorboduc, also titled Ferrex and Porrex, English play, 1561.
• It was first performed at the Christmas celebration given by the Inner Temple in 1561, and performed at Whitehall before Queen Elizabeth I on 18 January 1561, [by the Gentlemen of the Inner Temple.
• The authors were Thomas Norton and Thomas Sackville

Question 14

Who killed Christopher Marlow?

Answer 14

Ingram Frizer

Question 15

Summary of Tamburlain?

Answer 15

Written in 1587
: Persian emperor wants to dispose Tamburlaine, a Scythian shephard and a nomadic bandit.

Tamurlain wins Zenocrate, the daughter of the Egyptian king in Scythia.
He promises Cesroe, the Persian throne, but takes control himself.
He defeats, Bajazeth of Turk, he and his wife kill themselves.
Tamburlain conquers Africa. He wants to conquer Damascus which belongs to his future father-in-law,

Zenoxrate asks him to spare her father, which he does and he marries her.

In part 2- He grooms his son to be a conqueror His son Calyphas doesn’t want to risk his death. Son of Bajazeth, Callapine escapes his prison and gathers and army to avenge his father’s death.
Tamburlaine wins the battle and kills Callapine . He hangs the governor of Babylon and shoots him. He burns a copy of Quran and claims to be greater than God. He becomes ill and defeats more before dying.

Question 16

Doctor Faustus is based on?

Answer 16

Faustbuch (Faust legend) 1604

Faustus friends: Valdes and Conelius teach magic

Question 17

University Wits are?

Answer 17

John Lyly
Thomas Kyd
Christopher Marlow
Robert Greene 
Thomas Nashe
George Peeple
Thomas Lodge

Question 18

Plays by John Lyly?

Answer 18

Endymion (1591) 
endless slumber Endymion by former lover Tellus 
Campaspe (1584)
Sapho and Phao (1584)
Gallathea (1592)
Midas (1592)
Mother Bombie (1594)

Question 19

Plays by Thomas Kyd?

Answer 19

The Spanish Tragedy, or Hieronimo is Mad Again is an Elizabethan tragedy written by Thomas Kyd between 1582 and 1592.

Summary

Balthazar killed the Spanish officer Andrea taken capture by Spanish.
Andrea’s ghosts want revenge
Lorenzo and Horatio argue about capturing Balthazar, Lorenzo takes credit and takes charge of his custody.

Bel-imperia loves Andrea, falls for Horatio and desires for revenge,
Balthazar in love with Bel-imperia. Spanish king wants to marry Bel-imperia to Balthazar for peace.
Marshal Hieronimo, father of Horatio finds the body of Horatio killed by Lorenzo and Balthazar.
Isabella, his wife becomes mad.
Lorenzo locks Bel-imperia, she sends letter to Hieronimo, telling him that Lorenzo and Balthazar are killers of Horatio.
Hieronimo does a play in front of the king where he uses real dagger to kill Lorenzo and Balthazar.
Bel-imperia’s actually commits suicide while enacting. Hieronimo bites his tongue and kill both himself and the Duke.
Andrea and revenge are satisfied.
It is inspired from Seneca. It inspired The Alchemist and Everyman in his humour by Ben Jonson and Wasteland by T.S. Eliot.

Question 20

Plays by George Peele?

Answer 20

DAVID AND BATHSHEBA (1599), – ‘not the sweeping beauty of Marlowe, but a gentler and more insinuating charm.’
Peele’s other works include Edward I (1593), The Old Wives’ Tale, which is a clever satire on the popular drama of the day;

Question 21

Plays by Robert Greene

Answer 21

ALPHOSEOUS is modelled on Marlowe’s Tamburlaine; 
 ORLANDO FURIOSO(1591 AD) has its source in an English 
Translation of Ariosto; and The Scottish Historie of James, the Fourth, staged in (1592 AD), is about an imaginary incident of the King’s life.

Question 22

Plot of Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay

Answer 22

Robert Greene
1594

Prince EDWARD’S attempts to woo a maid, MARGRET. (Edward will later become King Edward I.)
Lacy, HIS FRIEND woo Margaret in his absence,

Edward goes to Oxford to ask Friar Bacon, a noted philosopher and magician, to help him.

Edward learns from Friar Bacon’s magic glass that Margaret has fallen in love with Lucy and that the aged Friar Bungay has agreed to marry them.

Bacon uses his magic to PREVENT the wedding from going ahead, before facing off against VANDERMAST, a German necromancer. BACON wins the battle of the magicians.
Edward later SUPPORTS the marriage between Lacy and Margaret, while allowing himself to be betrothed to Eleanor of Castile. The play was an inspiration for Shakespeare and Jonson.

Question 23

Plays by Thomas Nash

Answer 23

He finished Marlowe’s The Tragedy of DIDO.
He wrote SUMMER’S LAST WILL and TESTAMENT, a satirical masque. Nash also wrote The Unfortunate Traveller, Traveller or The Life of Jacke Wilton (1594), a prose tale that has enough importance in the growth English fiction.

Question 24

Plays by Thomas Lodge?

Answer 24

The WOUNDES OF THE CIVIL WAR, a chronicle play, is considered to be Lodge’s own work. He also wrote prose romances, like
ROSALYND: Euphues Golden Legacie (1590) which was the chief source of Shakespeare’s As You Like It.