ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

AGES ERA PERIOD

EARLY 17TH CENTURY

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Which of the following plays was not authored by Shakespeare in the Jacobean period?
A
Othello
B
Volpone
C
King Lear
D
Antony and Cleopatra
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Expert-Verified Answer. Among the plays which have been mentioned above, the one which has not been written by William Shakespeare is “The Comedy of Errors.”

Detailed explanation-2: -Some of the most prominent of the Jacobean playwrights, apart from Shakespeare, are Jonson, Webster, Tourneur, Beaumont, Fletcher, Middleton, Rowley, Marston, Heyward, Ford and Dekker.

Detailed explanation-3: -This new Jacobean environment both provoked Shakespeare to create new work, and profoundly altered its temper and direction. On a basic level, he and his collaborators were forced to go back through their previous hits and expunge unflattering references to anyone Scottish, lest they wanted to be thrown in jail.

Detailed explanation-4: -The greatest dramatists of the Jacobean period was: William Shakespeare.

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