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1. Story written by Ben Johnson - there is an outbreak of the plague - and Lovewit leaves for the country - leaving a butler in charge of his house - -crazy things happen in the house - and the depravity of man and greed are shown by their actions when

2. Written by Christopher Marlowe - story about a man sells his soul to the devil for power and knowledge - allotted twenty-four years of life on Earth - during which time he will have Mephistophilis as his personal servant. Then - he must repay with ti

3. Written by George Bernard Shaw - old version of My Fair Lady

4. Men and Women - a collection of fifty-one poems in two volumes - all of which are monologues spoken by different narrators - some identified and some not - was written by...

5. Pen name for Mary Anne Evans - one of the leading writers of the Victorian era - went by a male name so that she would be taken seriously. Wrote The Mill on the Floss (1860) - Silas Marner (1861) - Middlemarch (1871-72) - and Daniel Deronda (1876)

6. Self published books by Robert Browning are entitled as what?

7. Taming of the Shrew was written by...

8. Modern English authors

9. John Keats was known for what kind of writings?

10. Mary Shelley was his second wife

11. The Waste Land and Four Quartets are written by...

12. Scobie - Yusef - Tallit - Dicky commits suicide - and tries to make it seem natural

13. The Faerie Queene - an allegorical work - written in praise of Queen Elizabeth I - an epic - incomplete poem and fantastical allegory celebrating the?

14. Wrote Frankenstein - started writing at age 18 - and published at age 21

15. Who is taken as prisoner to a people group smaller than him in Jonathon Swifts famous work?

16. Who wrote The Eve of St. Agnes - Ode to a Nightingale - Ode on a Grecian Urn

17. Written by Christopher Marlowe - Barabas is the protagonist - who uses his daughter (Abigail) to make others mad - and when she finds out - she joins a nunnery. She is then poisoned.

18. Kubla Khan The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Christabel.is associated with what?

19. The Lady of the Lake - an Arthurian Legend was written by...

20. A collection of English poems by Robert Browning - first published in 1845 as the seventh volume in a series of self-published books

21. The poem satirises a petty squabble by comparing it to the epic world of the gods - Pope keeps a sense that beauty is fragile - and that the loss of a lock of hair touches Belinda deeply.

22. Criseyde then falls for Deiphobus - Troilus is killed by who?

23. What time period are -Thomas Moore -Philip Sidney -Edmund Spenser -Shakespeare -Christopher Marlowe

24. Works by Charles Dickens

25. What does Troilus reflect on in the story of Troilus and Criseyde?