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2021-11-09 17:52:10 William Caxton (1422 - 1491)

William Caxton was an English Merchant, diplomat, and writer.
He is thought to be the first person to introduce a priting press into England, in 1476, and as a printer was the first English retailer of printed books.
During 1471 - 1472, at Cologne, William Caxton learned the trade of printing.
Caxton and Colard Mansion set up a Printing press at Bruges.
William Caxton printed a total of about 100 different works.
He translated of about 24 books, all of them except one he printed.
In 1438 he became a apprentice to a prominent London mercer Robert Lorge.
In 1469 he entered the service of Margaret Duchess of Burgundy, the sister of King Edward 4.
Margaret asked him to complete an English translation of Raoul Lefevre's History of Troy. Thus the first printed in English was Caxton's translations of Lefevre called The Recuyell of the Histroyes of Troy ( From French to English )
Caxton printed Chaucer's translation of Boethius in 1479.
Malory Morte d' Arthur was issued from his press in 1485.
Wynkyn de Worde became Caxton's successor on his death in 1491.
For Caxton, Chaucer was the Laureate poet.
The first English translation of Ovid's Metamorphoses was also the work of William caxton.
Caxton achieved the title of " Governor of the English Nation of Merchant Adventures.
The name of caxton Printing press was " The Red Pale". ओपन / कमेंट

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2021-11-07 04:08:38 The Comedy :

1. ...... is a play of light and amusing character with a happy conclusion to the plot ?

Ans: A comedy

2. Who is the most important writer of Comedies ?

Ans: Aristophanes

3. The two types of Comedies are the ......... and the ....... ?

Ans: Classical Romantic Comedies

4. The classical comedy is based on the ....... ?

Ans: Greek and Latin Models

5. ......... and the ........... tried the classical form of comedy ?

Ans: Ben Jonson, Restoration playwrights

6. William Shakespeare wrote...... ?

Ans: Romantic Comedies

7. Ben Jonson's Comedies belong to ....... ?

Ans: Comedy of Humour

8. The comedy of Humour is based on the medieval theory of the four humour's........ that determine the human character ?

Ans: blood, Phlegm, choleric and Melancholy

9. ....... the expresses the follies and foibles of the upper classes and is artificial?

Ans: The comedy of manners

10. William Congreve's The Way of the world is a.......?

Ans: Comedy of Manners

11. Sheridan's The school for scandal is an ....... ?

Ans: Anti - sentimental comedy

12. Goldsmith's she stoops to conquer is an ......?

Ans: Anti - sentimental comedy

13. .......... flourished in Oscar Wilde's Plays ?

Ans: The comedy of dialogue

14. The Importance of being Ernest and Lady Windermere's Fan are examples of .........?

Ans: The comedy of dialogues

15. George Bernard Shaw's plays deal with ....... and........ problems ?

Ans: social, moral

16. Arms and the Man, The applecart, and Major Barbara are ...... .... important plays ?

Ans; Bernard Shaw's

17. ....... is an experimental playwright who wrote under the influence of Shaw?

Ans: James Birdie

18. .......... are the important plays of james Birdie?

Ans: The Anatomist and Mr. Bolfry

19. J. B. Priestly was a significant comedy writer who used the ........ as themes for his plays ?

Ans: theorist of time

20. ......... are the modern Comedy writers ?

Ans: Terence - Rattigan, Lawrence Housemen, and J. M. Barrie

21. Noel Coward wrote plays about the leisured classes as ........and......?

Ans: Hay Fever, The Happy Breed.

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2021-11-06 16:23:22 Very Tricky Mcqs :

1. Essay on Man - a poem by Pope

2. Essay on Milton - a prose by Macaulay

3. Essay on Criticism - a poem by Pope

4. Essay in Criticism - a prose by Mathew arnold

5. Essay of Elia - Charles Dickens

6. Essay on Ancient and Modern - T. S. Eliot

7. The Rape of lock - Epic poem by Pope

8. The Rape of Lucrece - a long poem by Shakespeare

9. The way of the world - A comedy by William Congreve

10. The way of All Flesh - a novel by Samuel Butler

11. The Prelude - A poem by William wordsworth

12 Preludes - A poem by T. S. Eliot

13. Elizabethan essays - prose by T.S. Eliot

14. Elizabeth and Essex - prose by Lytton Stratchey

15. Everyman - One of the best known morality plays

16. Everyman in His Humour - satirical comedy by Ben Jonson

17. The Book of The Duchess- The poem by Chaucer

18. The Book of Martyrs - a story by John Foxe

19. The Pilgrim progress - By John Bunyan

20. The Pilgrims of the Rhine - Bulwer Lytton

21. The life of opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gent - a novel by sterne

22. Tristram and Iscult - Mathew arnold

23. Lyrical Ballads - collection poems by Coleridge and wordsworth

24. Preface to Lyrical Ballads - A prose by Wordsworth

25. All for love - A blank verse Tragedy by Dryden

26. Love Labour's Lost- A Drama by Shakespeare

27. A portrait of the Artist as a Young man - a novel by Joyce

28. Portrait of the Artist as a Young dog - Dylan Thomas

29. Portrait of Dare - a novel by Francis Bret James

30. A portrait of a lady - a novel by Henry James

31. The Duchess of Dadna - a drama by Oscar wilde

32. The Duchess of malfi - Tragedy John webster

33. A Tale of Two Cities - a novel by Dickens

34. A Tale of Manchester life - a novel by Mrs. E. Gaskell

35. The Anatomy of Melancholy - a critique by Robert Burton

36. The Anatomy of the World - a poem prince Henry written by John Donne

37. The Battle of books - a satire by Swift

38. A Battle of Maldon - Anglo-Saxon war poem

39. A women killed with kindness - a drama by Heywood

40. The women in the moon - a play by Lily

41. Ode on the Nativity - a poem by Milton

42. Ode on Duty - Poem by Wordsworth.
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