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English Drama
YGK These English Dramas That Aren't By Shakespeare
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Author of The Spanish Tragedy | Thomas Kyd |
| Genre pioneered and popularized by The Spanish Tragedy | Revenge tragedy |
| War setting for The Spanish Tragedy | War between Portugal and Spain |
| Spanish soldier killed by Portuguese prince Balthazar | Don Andrea |
| Two Spanish soldiers who capture Balthazar | Lorenzo and Horatio |
| Spirit who returns with Andrea's ghost to watch events | Revenge |
| Andrea's former lover who falls in love with Horatio | Bel-imperia |
| Character who conspires with Balthazar to kill Horatio | Lorenzo |
| Method used by Bel-imperia to expose Lorenzo's schemes | Letter written in her own blood |
| Climactic scene type where Hieronimo and Bel-imperia take vengeance | Play-within-a-play |
| Shakespearean play influenced by The Spanish Tragedy | Hamlet |
| Author of The Jew of Malta | Christopher Marlowe |
| Jewish merchant whose fortune is seized by Malta’s governor | Barabas |
| Malta's governor who seizes Barabas's fortune | Ferneze |
| Barabas's daughter | Abigail |
| Governor's son killed in a duel sparked by Barabas | Lodowick |
| Barabas's slave who helps poison convent occupants | Ithamore |
| Nationality aided by Barabas in conquering Malta | Turks |
| How Barabas is killed as the Maltese retake the island | In a boiling cauldron |
| Shakespearean play thought to be influenced by The Jew of Malta | The Merchant of Venice |
| Author of Doctor Faustus | Christopher Marlowe |
| Two scholars who teach Faustus how to summon a demon | Valdes and Cornelius |
| Demon summoned by Faustus | Mephistophilis |
| Entity to whom Faustus signs his soul over | Lucifer |
| Duration of healthy life Faustus is granted in exchange for his soul | 24 years |
| Person whose "shade" Faustus summons, prompting the "face that launch'd a thousand ships" quote | Helen of Troy |
| How Faustus knows his deal is expiring | A clock's chimes |
| What happens to Faustus when the deal expires | Devils appear and drag him to hell |
| Author of Every Man in His Humour | Ben Jonson |
| Setting of Every Man in His Humour | Jonson’s contemporary London |
| Type of comedy Every Man in His Humour is | Humours play |
| Old gentleman who worries about his son's involvement with Wellbred | Knowell |
| Knowell's son | Edward |
| Fun-loving gallant Londoner | Wellbred |
| Merchant who worries about Wellbred's behavior giving his business a bad reputation | Kitely |
| Knowell’s mischievous servant | Brainworm |
| Braggart-captain character | Bobadill |
| Kindly figure who settles all grievances at the end of the play | Justice Clement |
| Author of Volpone | Ben Jonson |
| Setting of Volpone | Venice |
| Meaning of "Volpone" in Italian | Fox |
| Artistic device where characters' names are based on animals | Animal archetypes |
| Character who fakes a fatal illness to cajole gifts | Volpone |
| Characters who give Volpone gifts by believing they are in his will | Corbaccio, Corvino, Voltore |
| Volpone's servant, named for the Italian word for "fly" | Mosca |
| Corbaccio’s son, whom he disinherits | Bonario |
| Corvino’s wife, whom Volpone attempts to rape | Celia |
| English traveler who humiliates Sir Politick Would-Be | Peregrine |
| Outcome for all wrongdoing at the end of Volpone | Punishment |
| Author of The Duchess of Malfi | John Webster |
| Historical period of The Duchess of Malfi | Jacobean period |
| The widowed Duchess's love interest, a nobleman below her station | Antonio Bologna |
| The Duchess's twin brother who denounces her out of incestuous envy | Ferdinand |
| The Duchess's other brother, who hires a spy | A Cardinal |
| Former galley-slave hired to spy on the Duchess | Bosola |
| How the Cardinal kills his mistress Julia | With a poisoned bible |
| The three characters who kill each other in the climax of Malfi | Bosola, the Cardinal, and Ferdinand |
| Who inherits what remains at the end of The Duchess of Malfi | The son of the Duchess and Antonio |
| Author of All for Love | John Dryden |
| Playwright whom Dryden "professed to imitate" in All for Love | Shakespeare |
| The story retold in All for Love | The story of Mark Antony and Cleopatra |
| Roman general who tries to separate Antony and Cleopatra | Ventidius |
| Antony's wife who travels to Alexandria to convince him to reconcile | Octavia |
| Eunuch who falsely tells Antony that Cleopatra has committed suicide | Alexas |
| How Antony dies in All for Love | Falls upon his sword |
| How Cleopatra dies in All for Love | Lets herself be bitten by a poisonous snake |
| Priest of Isis who eulogizes the dead lovers | Serapion |
| Author of The Way of the World | William Congreve |
| Type of comedy The Way of the World is | Restoration comedy |
| Two lovers who wish to marry in The Way of the World | Mirabell and Millimant |
| Millimant's aunt whose approval is needed for her marriage | Lady Wishfort |
| Character Lady Wishfort wants Millimant to marry | Sir Wilfull Witwoud |
| Married servants enlisted by Mirabell in a trick | Waitwell and Foible |
| Character Waitwell disguises himself as | Sir Rowland |
| Woman who exposes Mirabell's scheme | Mrs. Marwood |
| Character who tries to blackmail his mother-in-law Lady Wishfort | Mr. Fainall |
| Document Mirabell produces to invalidate the blackmail attempt | An old contract |
| Author of She Stoops to Conquer | Oliver Goldsmith |
| Alternate title for She Stoops to Conquer | The Mistakes of a Night |
| Son of a wealthy gentleman sent to visit the Hardcastle home | Charles Marlow |
| Hardcastle’s daughter whom Marlow is sent to meet | Kate |
| Marlow's traveling companion | George Hastings |
| Kate’s half-brother who tricks the travelers into thinking the Hardcastle home is an inn | Tony Lumpkin |
| The reason Kate "stoops" to impersonating a barmaid | Marlow is only charming to lower-class women |
| The woman Mrs. Hardcastle wants Tony Lumpkin to marry | Constance Neville |
| The secret fiancé of Constance Neville | George Hastings |
| The object Mrs. Hardcastle guards that Constance and Hastings try to obtain | A casket of jewels |
| The discovery Tony Lumpkin makes that allows him to refuse his arranged marriage | He is an adult (older than he was told) |
| Author of The Rivals | Richard Brinsley Sheridan |
| The heroine of The Rivals who wants her life to imitate romantic novels | Lydia Languish |
| The wealthy character who pretends to be "Ensign Beverley" | Jack Absolute |
| The "country gentleman" suitor of Lydia Languish | Bob Acres |
| The Irish baronet who sends letters to "Delia" | Sir Lucius O’Trigger |
| Lydia’s guardian who uses the pseudonym "Delia" | Mrs. Malaprop |
| Term for the accidental substitution of similar-sounding words, named after a Sheridan character | Malapropism |
| Jack Absolute's father who exposes his son's deception | Sir Anthony Absolute |
| The quarreling pair of lovers who reconcile alongside Lydia and Jack | Julia and Faulkland |
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