ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS

MACBETH

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Which of the following tragedy is not written by Shakespeare?
A
Hamlet
B
Macbeth
C
King Lear
D
King Oedipus
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The correct answer is Edward the Second. Edward the Second was not written by William Shakespeare. The play is written by the playwright Christopher Marlowe. It’s a Renaissance drama that depicts Edward the Second’s troubled reign and tragedy-induced death.

Detailed explanation-2: -Hamlet remains to this day the most popular and the most produced of all of Shakespeare’s plays. It is considered to be one of the most influential tragedies in English literature as well as the most powerful.

Detailed explanation-3: -It’s not difficult to see how Shakespeare’s tragedies of love – Romeo and Juliet, Othello and Antony and Cleopatra – were written from an imaginative standpoint ahead of their time.

Detailed explanation-4: -While Shakespeare wrote comedies immediately following his son’s death, a few years later he would write a number of tragedies. Perhaps in the few years that followed the boy’s death, he had time to truly process the depth of his grief and pour them into his masterful dramas.

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