Which of the following factors contributed to literature becoming a profitable business ?
A. Commercial and public lending libraries were established in order to provide for an enlarged reading public
B. Education reform increased literacy, thus creating a demand for commercial and public lending libraries.
C. A new aesthetics of valuing literature for its own sake emphasized reading for pleasure.
D. all of the above
Marlowe’s play ’Tamburlaine the Great’ was based loosely on the life of which Asian ruler ?
A. Zhu Yuanzhang
B. Genghis Khan
C. Timur
D. Kublai Khan
In Marlowe’s play, what was the name of the Jew of Malta ?
A. Lazarus
B. Solomon
C. Barabas
D. Shylock
A. William Shakespeare
B. Thomas Kyd
C. John Dryden
D. John Donne
Which of these Kings was the subject of a play by Marlowe ?
A. Henry V
B. Richard III
C. Edward II
D. John
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