| 1.What is the first novel in English? |
Ans: Pamela |
| 2.When it was published? |
Ans: In 1740 |
| 3.Who wrote it? |
Ans: Samuel Richardson |
| 4.What is the first English Comedy? |
Ans: Ralph Roister Doister |
| 5.When it was Staged? |
Ans: In 1553 |
| 6. Who wrote it? |
Ans: Nicholas Udall |
| 7.What is the first EnglishTragedy ? |
Ans: Gorbuduc |
| 8.When it was staged? |
Ans: In 1561 |
| 9.Who wrote it? |
Ans: Sackville and Norton |
| 10.Who is the first printer in English? |
Ans: William Caxton |
| 11.What is the oldest document of English literature? |
Ans: Beowulf |
| 12.written time of Beowulf |
Ans: About 650AD (app:) |
| 13.First English printing press |
Ans: In 1476 |
| 14.First printing book in English |
Ans: Morte d’ Arthur. In 1485. |
| 15.Who is called the bird of Avon? |
Ans: Shakespeare |
| 16.Who is called the father of English Essays? |
Ans: Francis Bacon (1561-1626) |
| 17.which is the first historical drama in English? |
Ans: Marlowe’s ‘Edward II’ |
| 18.Shakespeare’s First play |
Ans: Love’s labour lost |
| 19 .Shakespeare’s last play |
Ans: The Tempest |
| 20. How many plays he wrote? |
Ans: 37 plays |