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Week 4 Quiz In Art 5, Section 003, FA 22
Integrative arts 5 (INART 5)
The Pennsylvania State University
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Week 4 Quiz
Due Sep 16, 2022 at 11:59pm Points 50 Questions 25
Available Sep 12, 2022 at 11am - Sep 17, 2022 at 12:30am
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Question 1 2 / 2 pts
Attempts at rewriting Shakespeare did not begin until about 200 years after his death.
True
Correct!Correct! False
Beginning less than a hundred years after Shakespeare’s death, British playwrights played fast and loose with the Bard, re-writing his plays and even turning them into operas. The Tempest became The Enchanted Island (1677), in which Miranda was joined by Dorinda, a sister who had never seen man, and by a young man, Hippolyto (usually played by a cross-dressed actress), who had never seen woman. For nearly 200 years, some of our favorite Shakespeare plays, including A Midsummer Night’s Dream, were largely unperformed in versions that Shakespeare would have recognized, but grew in popularity as operas—such as Henry Purcell’s Fairy Queen (1692) and David Garrick’s The Fairies (1755)—or farces like Pyramus and Thisbe (1745).
Question 2 2 / 2 pts
Cuthbert Burbage was the most famous Shakespearean actor of the Elizabethan Age.
True
Correct!Correct! False
Shakespeare came to the theater at just the right time. The Theater – the first playhouse erected in London solely for plays — had been built in 1576; theater-going was increasingly popular; professional actors had gained competence and were prospering; and although the art of drama had not yet fully matured, most of the major problems of play writing had been resolved. Shakespeare’s immediate predecessors — especially Marlowe and Kyd — were learning how to construct a plot with a theme, how to create character, and to write effective dramatic speeches and quick, lively dialogue. Moreover, the London theater was just becoming a national institution that, as never before or since, expressed the feelings of a nation.
Question 4 0 / 2 pts
Which of the following is true of William Shakespeare?
Shakespeare was highly educated and received a graduate degree in Latin at the University of Oxford.
Born into the royal family, Shakespeare ruled as a nobleman in Stratford- Upon-Avon.
ou Answeredou Answered
orrect Answerorrect Answer Shakespeare left formal schooling in his mid-teens.
Due to the relative unpopularity of his works in his lifetime, Shakespeare was living in poverty when he died.
William almost certainly went to the free grammar school in Stratford, although there are no extant records to prove this claim. From the age of seven or thereabouts, he would have progressed to the King’s New School where the emphasis would have been on Latin. Shakespeare probably left school at the age of 14 or 15.
Question 5 2 / 2 pts
Historians know a good deal about William Shakespeare and his personal life.
True
Correct!Correct! False
Despite his fame and an enormous amount of scholarly investigation, little is actually known about the man and his personal life. Most information about Shakespeare is drawn by inference from his written works, a scattering of legal documents, and references made about him by other writers from the Elizabethan Age. As a consequence, he is a mysterious figure in the history of English letters and most information about him is speculative at best.
Question 6 2 / 2 pts
According to the readings, which of the following works is considered to be Shakespeare's first "great" play?
The Tragedy of King Lear
Question 8 2 / 2 pts
The Shakespeare Oxford Society DOES NOT believe that the William Shakespeare from Stratford had access to enough knowledge (classics, music, languages, etc.) to have written Shakespeare's plays.
Correct!Correct! True
False
The author of Shakespeare’s works had to be familiar with a wide body of knowledge for his time — on such subjects as law, music, foreign languages, the classics, and aristocratic manners and sports. There is no documentation that William Shakespeare of Stratford had access to such information.
Question 9 2 / 2 pts
According to Professor Stanley Wells, the phenomenon of disbelief in Shakespeare's authorship can be explained by which of the following?
Correct!Correct! All of these are correct.
Snobbery
Desire for publicity
Refusal to accept evidence
The phenomenon of disbelief in Shakespeare’s authorship is a psychological aberration of considerable interest. Endorsement of it in favor of aristocratic candidates may be ascribed to snobbery — reluctance to believe that works of genius could emanate from a man of relatively humble origin — an attitude that would not permit Marlowe to have written his own works, let alone Shakespeare’s. Other causes include ignorance; poor sense of logic; refusal, willful or otherwise, to accept evidence; folly; the desire for publicity; and even (as in the sad case of Delia Bacon, who hoped to open Shakespeare’s grave in 1856) certifiable madness.
Question 10 2 / 2 pts
Which of the following is true of Shakespeare, his work, and the culture of theatre during his "Second Period (1594 – 1603)"?
Playgoers were increasingly informed and sophisticated audience members.
Correct!Correct! All of these are correct.
King James I became the patron of Shakespeare's acting and production group.
Shakespeare was faced with rival playwrights.
The theater that Cuthbert Burbage built for the Lord Chamberlain’s Men had a total capacity of between 2,000 and 3,000 spectators. Because there was no lighting, all performances at the Globe were conducted, weather permitting, during the day (probably most often in the mid-afternoon span between 2 and 5 in the afternoon). Because most of the Globe and all of its stage was open air, acoustics were poor and the actors were compelled by circumstances to shout their lines, stress their enunciation, and engage in exaggerated theatrical gestures. The stage of the Globe was a level platform about 43 feet in width some 27 or 28 feet deep that was raised about five feet off the ground. The stage was fitted with a number of mechanisms (trap doors in its floor for instance), and distinct sections (e. a sub- stage space toward its back lip for parallel action) that were creatively utilized by Shakespeare in his stage directions.
Question 12 2 / 2 pts
After it was inherited by Burbage, what happened to "the Theatre?"
It burned down in a terrible fire.
It was permanently closed due to the plague.
It was torn down and its materials used to construct "the Globe Theatre."
Correct!Correct!
It was renamed "the Globe Theatre" to gain additional publicity.
In 1597, Cuthbert Burbage inherited another London theater that was the first of its kind and simply called the Theatre. But there was a problem with this valuable legacy: Cuthbert Burbage owned the Theatre, its structure and materials, but the land on which the Theatre was erected was leased by his father and his eldest son was unable to negotiate a renewal of the land lease. The far- sighted if fledgling impresario tore down the Theatre and used its timbers and other elements as the building materials for what would become the Globe Theatre.
Question 13 2 / 2 pts
The authorship of Shakespeare’s plays was questioned:
Correct!Correct! All of these are correct.
Two of these are correct.
Less than 150 years after Shakespeare's death.
By writers such as Mark Twain, Walt Whitman, and Charles Dickens.
By contemporary actors such as John Gielgud, Mark Rylance, and Keanu Reeves.
Question 14 2 / 2 pts
In recent years, popular “Replacement Shakespeares” have included all EXCEPT whom?
Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford
Sir Francis Bacon
Christopher Marlowe
Correct!Correct! Cuthbert Burbage
Less than a century-and-a-half after William Shakespeare of Stratford-Upon-Avon was buried in Holy Trinity Church, questions began to be raised about whether or not this man was actually the author of the most famous plays and poems written in the English language. Over the years, many of the most respected writers and thinkers on the world stage have expressed doubts about the claim that the glover’s son from the small community nestled in the English midlands was capable of writing the plays that have come to represent the pinnacle of Renaissance art. Sigmund Freud, Henry James, Charles Dickens, Walt Whitman, James Joyce, and Mark Twain all wrote of their doubts that the man from Stratford was the author of Hamlet, King Lear, Othello, and Romeo and Juliet. There exist sincere and intelligent people who believe there is strong evidence that Edward de Vere, Seventeenth Earl of Oxford, was the author of these plays and poems. Others believe that Christopher Marlowe, Shakespeare’s friend and fellow playwright, actually wrote the plays. Still others believe that Sir Francis Bacon, the statesman, wrote the plays and cases have been made for William Stanley, the Earl of Derby; Ben Jonson; Thomas Middleton; Sir Walter Raleigh; and even Queen Elizabeth I.
Question 15 2 / 2 pts
As is customary today, most performances at the Globe Theatre took place at night.
True
Correct!Correct! False
The theater that Cuthbert Burbage built for the Lord Chamberlain’s Men had a total capacity of between 2,000 and 3,000 spectators. Because there was no lighting, all performances at the Globe were conducted, weather permitting, during the day (probably most often in the mid-afternoon span between 2 and 5 in the afternoon).
Question 16 2 / 2 pts
Which of the following were used in Shakespeare's productions at the Globe Theatre?
Background scenery
Costumes
Props
Correct!Correct! Two of these are correct.
Most famously, Nahum Tate (1652-1715) turned Shakespeare’s tragic King Lear into a love story in which Cordelia marries Edgar and lives happily ever after. This oddly optimistic version dominated the stage from 1681 until well into the 19th century and was revered rather than reviled for tweaking Shakespeare’s original. The 18th-century English literary lion and lexicographer, Samuel Johnson (1709-1784), for instance, preferred Tate’s happy King Lear because he found the original ending so deeply upsetting as to undercut the moral uplift he looked for from Shakespeare.
Question 18 2 / 2 pts
What was the name of Shakespeare’s acting and production company?
Correct!Correct! Lord Chamberlain’s/King’s Men
The Oxfordian Cause
The Burbage Boys
A Groats-worth of Witte
By 1594, he was not only acting and writing for the Lord Chamberlain’s Men, but had become a shareholder (partner) in the company. Richard Burbage was the company’s leading actor. He played roles such as Richard III, Hamlet, Othello and Lear. Under James I, the company was renamed The King’s Men. They performed at court more often than any other company.
Question 19 2 / 2 pts
Which of the following social factors led to frequent interruptions of London's playhouses and theatre culture during Shakespeare's career?
Rebellions against Queen Elizabeth.
The Wars of the Roses
The outlawing of theatre as a public practice.
Correct!Correct! Outbreaks of the plague.
Shakespeare’s working life falls into four periods of activity, broken by intervals when the playhouses were shut because of outbreaks of the plague in London. These occurred in 1592 to 1594, 1603, and 1609 to 1611.
Question 20 2 / 2 pts
The Globe Theatre, at which Shakespeare’s group the Lord Chamberlain’s men performed, was the first public playhouse in London.
True
Correct!Correct! False
Question 22 2 / 2 pts
Which period of Shakespeare’s work was characterized by the use of ornate poetic imagery and clever wordplay with alliteration, puns, and so on?
The Poetic Period
The Second Period (1594 - 1603)
The Third Period (1603 - 1616)
Correct!Correct! The First Period (Before 1594)
In all these early plays Shakespeare showed considerable facility with words and a conscious concern with literary art: alliteration, wordplay, puns, variety of meter, rhetorical devices of every kind, and an excess of elaborate, obvious poetic imagery used more for its own sake than to illumine meaning. At first Shakespeare was the clever amateur showing off his skill in entertaining an audience rather than a serious dramatist.
Question 23 2 / 2 pts
In The Taming of the Shrew, the character Petruchio plans to marry which character?
Bianca
Baptista
None of these are correct.
Correct!Correct! Katherine
The Taming of the Shrew begins with an "induction" in which a nobleman plays a trick on a beggar, Christopher Sly, treating Sly as if he is a nobleman who has lost his memory. A play is staged for Sly—the play that we know as The Taming of the Shrew. In the play, set in Padua, Lucentio and other suitors pursue Bianca, but are told by her father, Baptista, that her bad-tempered older sister, Katherine, must marry first. They encourage Petruchio, who has come to Padua to find a wealthy wife, to court Katherine and free Bianca to marry. Petruchio negotiates marriage terms with Baptista, then has a stormy meeting with Katherine, after which he assures Baptista that the two have agreed to marry. Petruchio arrives late to their wedding dressed in strange clothes; he behaves rudely and carries Katherine away before the wedding dinner. At his home, he embarks on a plan to "tame" Katherine as one would tame a wild hawk. Starved and kept without sleep, Katherine eventually agrees with everything Petruchio says, however absurd. He takes her back to Padua, where they attend Bianca's wedding. There Katherine proves more obedient to her husband than the other wives, whom she chastises before she and Petruchio go off to consummate their marriage.
Question 24 2 / 2 pts
In the clip from the 2019 production of The Taming of the Shrew, what does Petruchia do while waiting for Katherine to appear?
Works on a drawing of Katherine
Pretends to be asleep
Correct!Correct! Plays a musical instrument
Week 4 Quiz In Art 5, Section 003, FA 22
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University: The Pennsylvania State University
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