Question

The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia and An Apology for poetry are the famous works of ................

• A. Edmund Spenser
• B. Christopher Marlowe
• C. Philip Sidney
• D. John Donne

Answer 1

Answer:

C. Philip Sidney

• Elizabethan literature, body of works written during the reign of Elizabeth I of England (1558–1603), probably the most splendid age in the history of English literature, during which such writers as Sir Philip Sidney, Edmund Spenser, Roger Ascham, Richard Hooker, Christopher Marlowe, and William Shakespeare flourished.

• The epithet Elizabethan is merely a chronological reference and does not describe any special characteristic of the writing.