The pilgrims in Geoffrey Chaucer's late 14th-century Canterbury Tales set out for Canterbury from London – specifically, from the Tabard inn, Southwark. William Shakespeare spent a large part of his life living and working in London; his contemporary Ben Jonson was also based there, and some of his work—most notably his play The Alchemist—was set in the city. A Journal of the Plague Year (1722) by Daniel Defoe is a fictionalisation of the events of the 1665 Great Plague. Later important depictions of London from the 19th and early 20th centuries are Dickens' novels, and Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories. Modern writers pervasively influenced by the city include Peter Ackroyd, author of a "biography" of London, and Iain Sinclair, who writes in the genre of psychogeography. COUNT 5
QSN1 What famous Elizabethan playwright spent much of his life in London? ANS1 William Shakespeare QSN2 What contemporary of Williams Shakespeare wrote a play entitled The Alchemist? ANS2 Ben Jonson QSN3 What author of Robinson Crusoe also wrote a fictionalized account of the Great Plague of 1665? ANS3 Daniel Defoe QSN4 The people in Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales begin their pilgrimage from what London establishment? ANS4 the Tabard inn QSN5 Arthur Conan Doyle brought to life what famous detective in a series of novels? ANS5 Sherlock Holmes