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What event allowed mainstream theater companies to commission and perform work that was politically, socially, and sexually controversial without fear of censorship ?
A. the abolition of the Lord Chamberlain’s office in 1968
B. the illegal performance of work by Howard Brenton and Edward Bond
C. the collapse of liberal humanist consensus in the late 1960s
D. the foundation of the Field Day Theater Company in 1980
Toward the close of which century did English replace French as the language of conducting business in Parliament and in court of law ?
A. tenth
B. eleventh
C. twelfth
D. fourteenth
Which of the following works was NOT written by John Milton ?
A. ’L’Allegro’
B. ’Lycidas’
C. ’Il Penseroso’
D. ’Absolom and Achitophel’
With which enormously influential perspective or practice is the early-twentiethcentury thinker Sigmund Freud associated ?
A. eugenics
B. psychoanalysis
C. phrenology
D. anarchism
Which poem testifies to the profound doubts and uncertainties attending Donne’s conversion from Catholicism to Protestantism ?
A. Air and Angels
B. Satire 3
C. The Apparition
D. The Indifferent
According to a theater licensing act, repealed in 1843, what was meant by “legitimate” drama ?
A. The dramaturge and playwright had to be related.
B. All of the actors were male.
C. All of the actors were British.
D. The play was spoken.
One of Marlowe’s most famous poems was an account of which lovers ?
A. Anthony and Cleopatra
B. Hero and Leander
C. Troilus and Cressida
D. Apollo and Hyacinth
Who in the Romantic period developed a new novelistic language for the workings of the mind in flux ?
A. Maria Edgeworth
B. Sir Walter Scott
C. Thomas De Quincey
D. Jane Austen
’George Eliot’ was the pen-name of______________?
A. Mary Collins
B. Marian Evans
C. Lara Evans
D. Clare Reeve
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