LITERATURE QUESTIONS
MISCELLENEOUS QUESTIONS
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William Shakespeare
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Ben Jonson
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John Dryden
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Christopher Marlowe
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Detailed explanation-1: -A Midsummer Night’s Dream is a comedy written by William Shakespeare c. 1595 or 1596.
Detailed explanation-2: -Most critics believe the play was written for and performed at an aristocratic wedding, with Queen Elizabeth I in attendance. Scholars estimate the play was written in 1595 or 1596 (when Shakespeare was 31 or 32 years old), at approximately the same time as Romeo and Juliet and Richard II.
Detailed explanation-3: -All this makes late 1610 or early 1611 as the likeliest time in which Shakespeare wrote The Tempest. This is the same time at which The Winter’s Tale was written.
Detailed explanation-4: -Romeo and Juliet (1594–1595) Richard II (1595–1596) A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1595–1596) King John (1596–1597)