ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

LITERATURE QUESTIONS

MISCELLENEOUS QUESTIONS

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
How did Renaissance writers like Dante, Cervantes, and Shakespeare influence later writers?
A
by writing in Latin
B
by creating the first newspapers
C
by writing the Bible
D
by writing in the common lanugage
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Books and manuscripts became accessible to everyone. Renaissance literature enhanced logical thinking and reasoning in a larger base of readers. During the Renaissance, most books and manuscripts were written in Latin.

Detailed explanation-2: -Shakespeare, the Renaissance Man Shakespeare embraced the Renaissance in the following ways: Shakespeare updated the simplistic, two-dimensional writing style of pre-Renaissance drama. He focused on creating human characters with psychological complexity. Hamlet is perhaps the most famous example of this.

Detailed explanation-3: -The influence of the Renaissance brought so many types of literary composition and there was found the introduction of sonnets and other lyrical poems. Renaissance also influenced non-fictional critical prose work in 16 century, as revealed in the work of Bacon, Sidney and others.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Renaissance scored its first clear impact on English drama in the middle of the sixteenth century. During the Renaissance, drama become more secularized and reached crowning glory in the hands of University Wits such as Marlowe, Shakespeare and Ben Jonson.

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