- What is the full title of Doctor Faustus?
Ans. The Tragical History of the life and death of Doctor Faustus. - In which field of learning’s did Doctor Faustus obtain the doctorate degree?
Ans. Theology. - What is Inverness?
Ans. The name of Macbet’s castle. - What is Macbeth’s tragic flaw?
Ans high ambition - Who are the legacy hunters in Volpone?
Ans. Voltore, Corbaccio, Corvino and Lady Politic Would-be. - Who is the blazing star of Italy?
Ans. Celia. - What is the sub-title of the play Volpone?
Ans. The Fox. - Mention the literary period of John Webster.
Ans. Jacobean Period. - Why did Bosola give some apricots to the Duchess?
Ans. To be sure about her pregnancy. - Why does Faustus decide to practice necromancy?
Ans. In order to gain superhuman power. - What is soliloquy?
Ans. Character’s talking to himself that works for self-revelation. - Who is Hecate?
Ans. Goddess of witchcraft. - Who rescues Celia from Volpone?
Ans. Bonario. - How does Julia die in the “The Duchess of Malfi”?
Ans. Julia dies at the Cardinal’s hands from a poisoned Bible. - How do the madmen torture the Duchess?
Ans. By singing and dialoguing. - Why does Bosola stab Antonio?
Ans. Bosola wants to kill the Cardinal but mistakenly he stabs Antonio. - What is renaissance?
Ans. Revival of intellectual learning. - How do the weird sisters look like?
Ans. Like old and shrunken women with very wild clothes. - Who is Helen?
Ans. Wife of Menelaus, King of Sparta. - What reasons or conditions do Ferdinand and The Cardinal put forth against the second marriage of Duchess?
Ans. Three reasons: she is a widow; she is of a royal blood and has a duty to her rank and the second marriage expresses a lecherous nature. - Who is Lucifer?
Ans. Satan’s proper name. - Who does motley fool mean?
Ans. A fool who wears multicolored clothes. - Why is The Duchess of Malfi called a decadent play?
Ans. Because of decay, ruins, death, and despair. - Who is the peerless dame of Greece?
Ans. Helen. - What is the Trinity?
Ans. The union of Father, Son and Holy Spirit in one God. - What figure of speech do you find in “Fair is foul, and foul is fair?
Ans. Paradoxical statement or Chiasmus that indicates the reversal of values. - Whom does Macduff kill?
Ans. Macbeth. - Who is Bosola?
Ans. Antagonist of the play “The Duchess of Malfi”. - What are the seven deadly sins?
Ans. Pride, Covetous, Wrath, Envy, Gluttony, Sloth and Lechery. - Who is Macbeth?
Ans. The evil king of Scotland. - Who are the three witches?
Black and midnight hags who influence Macbeth in a great scale for wrongdoing. - Who was the Duke of Calabia?
Ans. Ferdinad. - What three things does Macbeth learn from the witches and apparitions?
Ans. Three things: he should fear Macduff, he should not fear any man born of a woman and nothing will affect his reign until Birnam wood moves. - What is Ancona?
Ans. Ancona is a city state in Italy. - what did Lady Macbeth say in her sleepwalking?
Ans. About the death of Duncan, Macduff’s wife and Banquo. - How did Cardinal and Ferdinand not want their sister to get married with Antonio?
Ans. To grasp the wealth of The Duchess. - Who is Christopher Marlowe?
Ans. Pre-Shakespearean Elizabethan dramatist. - What is tragedy?
Ans. Representation of better type of people with unhappy ending. - Name the two agents of Satan in Doctor Faustus.
Ans. Mephistophelis and Lucifer. - What is a beast fable?
Ans. A play in which animals and birds speak and behave like human beings. - Who is Duncan?
Ans. King of Scotland. - What is necromancy?
Ans. Black art or magic - Who wants to be Paris?
Ans. Doctor Faustus. - How did Volpone earn his wealth?
Ans. By cunning robbing from legacy hunters. - What kind of man is Bosola?
Ans. Lustful, greedy, proud and spiteful man. - What is apricot?
Ans. A sort of sour fruit. - Why does Macbeth want to kill Banquo and Fleance?
Ans. To make his power permanent. - What is the name of Corbaccio’s son in Volpone?
Ans. Bonario. - In which university did Doctor Faustus study?
Wittenberg University.
Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama Brief Suggestion NU 3rd year 2018-19
