Early Literature. William Shakespeare. Romanticism. Victorian Literature. Modern Literature

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1 British Literature

2 Early Literature William Shakespeare Romanticism Victorian Literature Modern Literature

3 Where is Beowulf set? in Scandinavia, in Denmark and Sweden

4 Who is considered to be the Father of English literature? Geoffrey Chaucer

5 What king had a big influence on literature in the 9th century? He inspired the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. King Alfred the Great

6 Where do the Pilgrims in the Canterbury Tales meet? Where do they head and why? They meet in London, Southwark. They make a pilgrimage to Canterbury to the shrine of Thomas Becket.

7 What is the name of the earliest known poet to whom an angel appeared and told him to praise a God s praise? Caedmon

8 Where was Shakespeare born? Where did he move in 1592? Stratford-upon-Avon, London

9 What is the name of the play in which a son of the late king of Denmark learns the truth about his father s death from his father s ghost? Hamlet

10 What is the name of the play in which a king asks his three daughters which of them loves him the best? King Lear

11 What acting company did Shakespeare join in 1594? the Lord Chamberlain s Men (later the King s Men)

12 Complete the quotation from Hamlet: Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.

13 Which romantic poet wrote Childe Harold s Pilgrimage? Lord George Gordon Byron

14 What is the name of the pre-romantic Scottish poet who wrote the poem To a Mouse? Robert Burns

15 What is the name of the Lake poet that wrote Lyrical Ballads? William Wordsworth

16 What is the name of the writer who was married to romantic poet Percy Bysshe S. and who wrote a gothic novel? What is the title of the novel? Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

17 Who wrote Rob Roy? Where is it set? Walter Scott, in Scotland

18 Which writer from the realistic period worked in a shoe factory as a child because his father had ended up in a debtors prison? Charles Dickens

19 Which writer is known for the novel Wuthering Heights? Emily Brontë

20 Which realistic author showed the life of the higher classes of society? He wrote for example Vanity Fair or The Book of Snobs. William Makepeace Thackeray

21 Complete the novels by Thomas Hardy: The Mayor of. Tess of the. The Mayor of Casterbridge, Tess of the D Urbevilles

22 Which writer was inspired by a small map to write a story full of adventures, pirates and dangers at sea? What is the novel called? Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island

23 What is the name of the novel which was adapted as the musical My Fair Lady? Who is it by? Pygmalion, George Bernard Shaw

24 Who wrote the absurd drama Waiting for Godot? How many characters appear in it? Samuel Beckett, 2 characters (Vladimir and Estragon)

25 What is the name of the novel in which a group of boys are left alone on an island and fail to create a harmonious society? Who wrote it? The Lord of the Flies, William Golding

26 What is the name of the author who wrote Ulysses and The Dubliners? James Joyce

27 Who wrote the poem The Waste Land and the drama Murder in the Cathedral about the murder of Thomas Becket? Thomas Stearns Eliot

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