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