• 1. 
    Which theatre company in England had William Shakespeare as its leading dramatist?

  • Prince Henry’s Men
  • Lord Chamberlain’s Men
  • Royal Shakespeare Company
  • Children of the Chapel
  • 2. 
    Which playwright is most closely associated with the comedy of humours?

  • Oscar Wilde
  • Ben Jonson
  • William Shakespeare
  • George Bernard Shaw
  • 3. 
    Which of George Bernard Shaw’s protagonists best personifies the tragic heroine?

  • Saint Joan
  • Major Barbara
  • Eliza Doolittle
  • Candida
  • 4. 
    Who wrote the play She Stoops to Conquer, first produced in 1773?

  • Richard Brinsley Sheridan
  • Aphra Behn
  • Oscar Wilde
  • Oliver Goldsmith
  • 5. 
    Who is considered the first of the “Angry Young Men” of the British stage?

  • John Gielgud
  • John Osborne
  • Paul Scofield
  • Arthur Miller
  • 6. 
    Which English playwright was imprisoned in the Tower of London until 1654?

  • Thomas Doggett
  • Sir William Davenant
  • Colley Cibber
  • Thomas Betterton
  • 7. 
    Whose writings about British history acted as the main reference resource for many of the Elizabethan playwrights?

  • Edward Hall
  • Raphael Holinshed
  • Henry Ellis
  • Sir Thomas North
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