Question

The first English Tragedy is

• A. Doctor Faustus
• B. Gorboduc
• C. Hamlet
• D. Macbeth

Answer 1

Answer:

B. Gorboduc

• Gorboduc, play by Thomas Norton and Thomas Sackville that takes as its subject Gorboduc, a mythical king of ancient Britain.

• First performed in 1561, it is the earliest English tragic play in blank verse.