ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS

DRFAUSTUS BY CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Who wrote “The Massacre at Paris”?
A
Shakespeare
B
Christopher Marlowe
C
Edmund Spenser
D
john Milton
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The Massacre at Paris is an Elizabethan play by the English dramatist Christopher Marlowe (1593) and a Restoration drama by Nathaniel Lee (1689), the latter chiefly remembered for a song by Henry Purcell.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Massacre at Paris is an Elizabethan play by the English dramatist Christopher Marlowe (1593) and a Restoration drama by Nathaniel Lee (1689), the latter chiefly remembered for a song by Henry Purcell.

Detailed explanation-3: -Christopher Marlowe’s play, The Massacre at Paris, was written in 1593 about the St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre, when three thousand Protestants were killed in one night in 1572, in a ruthless act of state terrorism by the Catholic government.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Concept Behind The Massacre at Paris Many scholars believe the play was written as a warning to be mindful of history lest it repeat itself, and may have also been intended to remind Queen Elizabeth I herself that danger was never far off for the British crown.

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