Question

A play retells a classical tragedy in five acts. The stage directions contain minimal setting description. Most of the dialogue is written in iambic pentameter. In which literary era was this okay most likely written?

A. Victorian
B. Restoration
C. Elizabethan
D. Modern

Answer 1

C. Elizabethan

Step-by-step explanation:

Elizabethan literature saw the flowering of plays of classical tragedy, drama and comedy told in five acts, with a minimal description of the setting and focused on characters' dialogues, which was usually written in iambic pentameter. A great Elizabethan play-writer whose works had those features was William Shakespeare. Likewise, this age saw the development of many great poets that preferred writing sonnets, a poem consisting of 14 lines that followed a specific pattern, usually, a five-foot iambics rhyming, which gave the verse a rhythmical and melodious sound.

Answer 2

Elizabethan

Step-by-step explanation:

In this literally era the five-act structure was widely used, and the iambic pentameter was the chosen structure for the verses in most lines of Shakespeare's plays for example.