Context

Question 1

When did Queen Elizabeth I die

Answer 1

1603

Question 2

What was John Dee dubbed?

Answer 2

A magus

Question 3

When was the play written

Answer 3

1611

Question 4

What was special about the black friars theatre about?

Answer 4

It was indoors so could have special effects

Question 5

Who wrote the cannibal essays?

Answer 5

Michel De Montaigne

Question 6

When did John Dryden write the echanted island?

Why was it different?

Answer 6

1660

More romantically and sexually funny rather than focusing on politics

Question 7

When was the Bermuda ship wreck?

Answer 7

1609

Question 8

What did William Strachey write?

Answer 8

Accounts of what happened

Question 9

Who wrote the masque hymenaei in 1613

Answer 9

Ben Johnson

Question 10

Who was the first person to suggest that Prospero was Shakespeare

Answer 10

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Question 11

When was the psychology on colonisation written?

Answer 11

1950

Question 12

When was the statue of Shakespeare with Prospero’s epilogue as the epitaph constructed?

Answer 12

1740

Question 13

When were Ovid and virgil’s metamorphoses translated and who by?

Answer 13

Golding in 1567

Question 14

When did Queen Elizabeth have to postpone her wedding to Frederik of Bohemia? and why?
Who’s situation does this reflect?

Answer 14

1612- prince Henry died

Alonso

Question 15

When was utopia by Thomas more written?

Answer 15

1516

Question 16

when did Shakespeare’s theatre get possession of the Blackfriars theatre?

Answer 16

1608

Question 17

which word was created in Jacobean society that Shakespeare liked to use?

Answer 17

Equivocation

Question 18

who was the man that King James had an obsession with?

Answer 18

Robert Kerr

Question 19

When was QEI’s body dug up and moved from fwestminster and replaced with Mary Queen of Scots (buried next to Margaret Beaufort)?

Answer 19

1606

Question 20

When did Ben Johnson write Hymenaie?

Answer 20

1606

Question 21

Who’s wedding was Johnson’s masque for?

Answer 21

Earl of Essex and Francis Howard

Question 22

Who did Francis Howard later marry after divorcing for not consummating her marriage?

Answer 22

Robert Kerr

Question 23

Which play was a rival to the tempest?

Answer 23

Johnson’s Bartholemew Fayre

Question 24

What was the name of the God that Native Americans and Caliban worshipped

Answer 24

Setebos

Question 25

Which other explorer went on a voyage that provides Renaissance experience of the New World? and where did he encounter the natives?

Answer 25

Magellan

Patagonia

Question 26

What was the name of one of Drake’s voyagers who wrote accounts?

Answer 26

Francis Fletcher

Question 27

What opinion did Fletcher have of the natives and what is this seen through in the play?

Answer 27

Negative as they tried to mutiny but also amazed at their infatuation with alcohol- reminiscent of caliban

Question 28

Who else wrote pamphlets on the survivors of the Bermuda wreckage in 1609?

Answer 28

Richard Rich- common coin of Shakespeare’s day