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Daily dose: Capsule 1

1. Chaucer lived during the reigns of – Edward III, Richard II and Henry IV


2. Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales was written in – 1385 onwards


3. Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales belongs to – 3rd Period of Chaucer’s literary career


4. Norman Conquest took place in – 1066 (11th Century)


5. Wyclif’s Bible was published in – 1380


6. William Langland’s The Vision of William concerning Piers the Plowman was written in - 1362-90


7. The Travels of Sir John Maundeville was published in - 1400


8. The Hundred Years’ War was begun in - 1338 (14th Century)


9. The Hundred Years’ War was fought between – England and France


10. Wat Tyler’s Rebellion took place in - 1381


11. The War of Roses was fought between – The House of York and the House of Lancaster


12. The War of Roses was fought during the period – 1455-86


13. Thomas Malory’s Morte De Arthur was written in – 1470 (published in 1485)


14. Caxton’s Printing Press was set up in – 1476


15. Thomas More’s Utopia was published in – 1516 (Latin), 1551 (English)


16. The First English Comedy, Roister Doister was written in – 1550


17. Roister Doister was written by – Nicholas Udall


18. The First English Tragedy, Gorboduc was written in – 1561




19. Gorboduc was written by – Thomas Sackville, Lord of Buckhurst & Thomas Norton


20. Tottel’s Miscellancy was published in - 1557

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