The Renaissance (1400-1650)
Name one of Shakespeare’s best-known plays.
Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet (others also acceptable: Macbeth, Othello, King Lear, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Much Ado About Nothing, Richard III)
Who wrote Robinson Crusoe?
Daniel Defoe
What type of literature dominated the Romantic Age in England?
Poetry
What is the name of the boy in Dickens’s novel who grows up in a workhouse?
Oliver Twist.
Which English author wrote The Jungle Book?
Rudyard Kipling
Who invented the art of printing during the Renaissance?
Johannes Gutenberg
What genre of writing flourished during the Enlightenment?
The novel
Name one of the first Romantic poets.
Blake, Wordsworth or Coleridge
Which famous sisters wrote during this period?
The Brontë sisters.
What is the name of the literary movement dominating English literature between 1914 and 1927?
Modernism
How many plays had Shakespeare written and produced by the end of the twenty years after 1595?
30
Which 1726 book by Jonathan Swift is both a satire and an adventure story?
Gulliver’s Travels
How old was Jane Austen when she died?
42
What age is this period also called?
Victorian Age
Which author wrote Dubliners in 1914?
James Joyce
What historical event interrupted the progress of Renaissance literature in England?
The Reformation
What did writers focus on instead of imagination?
Reason
Who was known for radical ideas and drama?
Shelley
How was The Pickwick Papers published?
In episodes
Which work by Virginia Woolf was published in 1927 and is considered part of the Modernist wave?
To the Lighthouse
In addition to plays, what type of poetry is Shakespeare especially known for?
Sonnets
What audience grew most during this period?
Middle class
Between which years did Jane Austen publish her six novels?
1811–1818
What kind of world did Realists aim to show?
Real life
List two famous Modernist writers besides Joyce and Eliot.
D. H. Lawrence, W. B. Yeats, Katherine Mansfield (also Virginia Woolf, Ezra Pound)