Shakespeare: Unit1: 3.12.23

What was the primary source for Shakespeare's classical mythology in plays like Titus Andronicus and Midsummer Night's Dream?

• Homer's Iliad

• Ovid's Metamorphoses

• Virgil's Aeneid

• Seneca's Tragedies

Which of the following works was NOT mentioned as a source for Shakespeare's plays?

• The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio

• The Tragical History of Romeus and Juliet by Arthur Brooke

• The Jew of Malta by Christopher Marlowe

• The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri

What was the major influence on Shakespeare's history plays, including Cymbeline, King Lear, and Macbeth?

• Plutarch's Parallel Lives

• Ovid's Metamorphoses

• Holinshed's Chronicles

• Chaucer's Canterbury Tales

Which play by Shakespeare is considered a reflection of Christopher Marlowe's The Jew of Malta?

• Othello

• Hamlet

• The Merchant of Venice

• Richard III

Shakespeare's Hamlet owes a debt to which earlier play by Thomas Kyd?

• Doctor Faustus

• Tamburlaine

• The Spanish Tragedy

• Edward II