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Introduction to Shakespeare and the Elizabethan Era
Introduction to Shakespeare and the Elizabethan Era
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What was a great fear of the people of Shakespeare's time?
Order
Taxes
The plague
Chaos
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Shakespeare's favoured rhythm is:
Iambic tetrameter
Iambic pentameter
Dactylic pentameter
Dactylic hexameter
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Find the odd one out (which play is not written by Shakespeare?)
Hamlet
King Lear
A Midsummer Night's Dream
A Doll's House
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Where was 'man' placed in the chain of being?
In the middle
At the bottom
At the top
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Find the odd one out (which play is not written by Shakespeare?)
The Tempest
Romeo and Juliet
Macbeth
Wicked
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Man's middle position in the chain of being meant he was in conflict between...?
Belief in God and belief in nature
England and France
Mortality and immortality
Reason and passion
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Who controlled the order of the universe?
God
The King
The Bishops
The Pope
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The rulers of Shakespeare's time were:
Elizabeth and Henry VIII
Elizabeth and Mary I
Elizabeth and James I
Elizabeth and Hamlet
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Many of Shakespeare's plays are about:
Queen Elizabeth
When men disturb the order
England's battles with France
The Pope
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Shakespeare wrote three kinds of plays. Which kind of play did he not write?
Tragedy
Comedy
History plays
Musical
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It was thought that all creations had a particular place in a hierarchy - what is this called?
The chain of being
The chain of order
The chain of things
God's chain
