Chapter 3B Shakespeare (sonnets)

Question 0

True or False: Shakespeare’s Greta history plays were written during the first half of his career.

Answer 0

True

Question 1

Who was suggested as a a possible author of the plays usually attributed to Shakespeare?

Answer 1

Christopher Marlowe

Question 2

How did Shakespeare support himself and his company?

Answer 2

By writing plays with a general appeal and evident meanings.

Question 3

Shakespeare wrote how many plays?

Answer 3

About 35

Question 4

What are the two long narrative poems that Shakespeare wrote?

Answer 4

1. “Venus and Adonis”

2. “The Rape of Lucrece”

Question 5

During the Renaissance what was considered the type of human love that was considered the highest and most spiritual?

Answer 5

Friendship

Question 6

The typical Shakespearean sonnet compromises of what four divisions?

Answer 6

Three quatrains and a couplet

Question 7

Sonnet 18 “Shall I Compare Thee…” Shakespeare discusses the superiority of his loved one to?

Answer 7

The loveliness of nature

Question 8

Sonnet 116 “let me not to the marriage of true minds” praises the major virtue of constancy. The ______ serves as the metaphor for unshakable love.

Answer 8

Star

Question 9

The Shakespearean sonnets in the text cover the subjects of?

Answer 9

1. Death
2. Idealism
3. Eternity

Question 10

The themes for the sonnets in the text include:

Answer 10

1. Immorality of verse
2. Duration of genuine love
3. Frequent spiritual gain from physical decline