Women in Shakespeare's works - Quiz
Women in Shakespeare s works
  • 1. What general topic includes Women in Shakespeare?
A) Elizabethan tax law
B) Renaissance painting history
C) Shakespeare's dramatic and poetic works
D) Modern novel criticism
  • 2. Which main character from the sonnets has elicited a substantial amount of criticism?
A) Dark Lady
B) Fair Youth
C) The Muse
D) The Rival Poet
  • 3. When did criticism of the Dark Lady receive added impetus?
A) First-wave feminism of the 1890s
B) Second-wave feminism of the 1960s
C) The Elizabethan era of the 1600s
D) The Romantic period of the 1800s
  • 4. What celestial bodies are named after women in Shakespeare?
A) Moons of Jupiter
B) Several moons of Uranus
C) Rings of Saturn
D) Craters on Mars
  • 5. In Shakespeare's tragedies and plays, female characters are often:
A) Underestimated
B) Completely ignored by the audience
C) Always the villains
D) Voiceless extras
  • 6. What can female characters do regarding male heroes?
A) Surpass them
B) Always obey them blindly
C) Always outlive them
D) Never influence them
  • 7. What was illegal for women in Shakespeare's day regarding public performances?
A) To write plays
B) To purchase tickets
C) To appear on the stage
D) To direct actors
  • 8. Who was expected to perform female theatrical roles in Shakespeare's time?
A) Only children under ten
B) Boys or men
C) Retired monarchs
D) Foreign actresses
  • 9. What did some Elizabethan male actors specialize in?
A) Animal costumes
B) Musical interludes
C) Female roles
D) Special effects
  • 10. Early criticism of female characters in Shakespeare focused on what attributes?
A) Costume designs
B) Positive attributes
C) Historical inaccuracies
D) Flaws and vices
  • 11. Early critics often claimed Shakespeare realistically captured the essence of what?
A) Femininity
B) Tragic despair
C) Military strategy
D) Political power
  • 12. Who wrote the study 'The Women of Shakespeare'?
A) Louis Lewes
B) Helen Zimmern
C) Anna Jameson
D) The editors of The Woman's Part
  • 13. Who wrote the preface to the English translation of 'The Women of Shakespeare' in 1895?
A) Louis Lewes
B) William Shakespeare
C) Anna Jameson
D) Helen Zimmern
  • 14. According to Helen Zimmern, Shakespeare's women are among his most what?
A) Attractive and original creations
B) Unrealistic and absurd figures
C) Weak and forgettable characters
D) Boring and predictable villains
  • 15. What did Louis Lewes say the poet's magic wand laid open?
A) The secrets of the universe
B) The history of ancient Rome
C) The depths of woman's nature
D) The political corruption of the court
  • 16. According to Louis Lewes, what plays a dangerous and fatal part in woman's nature?
A) Foolish innocence
B) Terrible passions
C) Blind obedience
D) Cold calculations
  • 17. When did the early period of women in Shakespeare criticism end?
A) During the 1960s
B) Beginning of the twentieth century
C) In 1895
D) At the death of Shakespeare
  • 18. How is the early period of women in Shakespeare criticism characterized?
A) Complete rejection of the plays
B) Strictly historical analysis
C) A very conventional tone and treatment
D) Radical feminist revolution
  • 19. What did the early period of criticism confirm?
A) The abolition of monarchy
B) Female submission
C) Equal rights in the workplace
D) Female domination
  • 20. What is the title of the 1983 collection referencing 19th-century women authors?
A) The Woman's Part
B) Shakespeare's Heroines
C) The Women of Shakespeare
D) Characteristics of Women
  • 21. Who wrote 'Shakespeare's Heroines: Characteristics of Women', originally published in 1832?
A) Louis Lewes
B) Louis Lewes's translator
C) Anna Jameson
D) Helen Zimmern
  • 22. How many fictional biographies in novel form of Shakespeare's heroines from 1885 were referenced in The Woman's Part?
A) Three
B) One
C) Two
D) Four
  • 23. How do early critics feel when Shakespeare's heroines behave 'unwomanly'?
A) Enthusiastic
B) Delighted
C) Uneasy
D) Indifferent
  • 24. What do adaptations of Shakespeare's heroines' stories praise in a style that today appears effusive?
A) Intellectual superiority and strength
B) Political ambition and ruthlessness
C) Girlish sweetness and modesty
D) Rebellious courage and cunning
  • 25. What term did the editors of The Woman's Part use to describe the limitations of early female critics and authors?
A) Universal human truths
B) Intentional dramatic flaws
C) Culturally induced limitations
D) Permanently fixed biological traits
  • 26. Who is the author of Enter the Body: Women and Representation on Shakespeare's Stage (2001)?
A) Helene Cixous
B) Carol Chillington Rutter
C) Judith Butler
D) William Shakespeare
  • 27. In King Lear, whose body does Carol Chillington Rutter focus on as her father carries her onto the stage?
A) Cordelia
B) Goneril
C) Reagan
D) Ophelia
  • 28. Whose body in the grave does Carol Chillington Rutter focus on in her book?
A) Ophelia
B) Desdemona
C) Emilia
D) Cordelia
  • 29. At the end of which play does Carol Chillington Rutter focus on the bodies of two women on a bed?
A) King Lear
B) Macbeth
C) Hamlet
D) Othello
  • 30. Which female character appears in The Comedy of Errors?
A) Celia
B) Beatrice
C) Adriana
D) Bianca
  • 31. In which play does the character Beatrice appear?
A) Twelfth Night
B) The Taming of the Shrew
C) As You Like It
D) Much Ado About Nothing
  • 32. Which character is from The Taming of the Shrew?
A) Viola
B) Olivia
C) Bianca
D) Hero
  • 33. Which character appears in As You Like It alongside Rosalind?
A) Cressida
B) Celia
C) Cleopatra
D) Cordelia
  • 34. Which character is married to Othello?
A) Emilia
B) Adriana
C) Desdemona
D) Bianca
  • 35. In which play does Gertrude appear?
A) Macbeth
B) Hamlet
C) King Lear
D) Othello
  • 36. Which character is one of Lear's daughters alongside Cordelia and Reagan?
A) Imogen
B) Hero
C) Isabella
D) Goneril
  • 37. Which character appears in A Midsummer Night's Dream along with Helena and Hippolyta?
A) Juliet
B) Hero
C) Julia
D) Hermia
  • 38. In which play do both Hermia and Titania appear?
A) A Midsummer Night's Dream
B) The Winter's Tale
C) The Tempest
D) Twelfth Night
  • 39. Which character appears in All's Well that Ends Well?
A) Hermione
B) Helena
C) Hippolyta
D) Hero
  • 40. Which character appears in Much Ado About Nothing alongside Beatrice?
A) Hero
B) Katherina
C) Julia
D) Juliet
  • 41. In which play does Hermione appear?
A) The Winter's Tale
B) The Two Gentlemen of Verona
C) The Tempest
D) The Merchant of Venice
  • 42. Which character appears in Cymbeline?
A) Isabella
B) Julia
C) Juliet
D) Imogen
  • 43. In which play does Isabella appear?
A) Much Ado About Nothing
B) Macbeth
C) The Merchant of Venice
D) Measure for Measure
  • 44. Which character is from The Two Gentlemen of Verona?
A) Juliet
B) Katherina
C) Julia
D) Lavinia Andronicus
  • 45. Which character is famously known as a shrew in the play sharing its name?
A) Desdemona
B) Bianca
C) Cleopatra
D) Katherina
  • 46. In which play does Lady Macbeth appear?
A) Hamlet
B) Macbeth
C) Othello
D) King Lear
  • 47. Which character is from Titus Andronicus?
A) Lavinia Andronicus
B) Paulina
C) Tamora
D) Margaret of Anjou
  • 48. Which character appears in The Tempest?
A) Margaret
B) Marina
C) Maud
D) Miranda
  • 49. Which character appears in Twelfth Night along with Viola?
A) Portia
B) Olivia
C) Paulina
D) Ophelia
  • 50. Which character appears in The Merchant of Venice?
A) Paulina
B) Portia
C) Phoebe
D) Perdita
  • 51. In which play does The Princess of France appear?
A) Love's Labour's Lost
B) The Winter's Tale
C) All's Well that Ends Well
D) Measure for Measure
  • 52. Which character appears in The Winter's Tale alongside Hermione and Perdita?
A) Portia
B) Phoebe
C) Rosalind
D) Paulina
  • 53. Who is Perdita's mother in The Winter's Tale?
A) Hermione
B) Cleopatra
C) Paulina
D) Desdemona
  • 54. Which daughter of King Lear is spelled Reagan in the text?
A) Regan
B) Regina
C) Reagan
D) Rachel
  • 55. Which character is from As You Like It?
A) Viola
B) Rosalind
C) Olivia
D) Rosaline
  • 56. Which character is noted in the text as being 'only referenced' in Romeo and Juliet?
A) Helena
B) Rosaline
C) Juliet
D) Hermia
  • 57. Which character appears in Titus Andronicus alongside Lavinia Andronicus?
A) The Three Witches
B) Thisbe
C) Tamora
D) Titania
  • 58. Which character is a queen of the fairies in A Midsummer Night's Dream?
A) Titania
B) Hippolyta
C) Helena
D) Hermia
  • 59. In which play does Viola appear?
A) Twelfth Night
B) The Winter's Tale
C) The Tempest
D) The Taming of the Shrew
  • 60. Which character appears in Coriolanus?
A) Valeria
B) Viola
C) Vandora
D) Volumnia
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