ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

LITERATURE QUESTIONS

MISCELLENEOUS QUESTIONS

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
What was the name of the play we saw in Malaga?
A
The taming of the shrew
B
A midsummer night’s dream
C
Much ado about nothing
D
King Lear
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Act 1, scene 2 Six Athenian tradesmen decide to put on a play, called “Pyramus and Thisbe, ” for Theseus and Hippolyta’s wedding. Pyramus will be played by Bottom the weaver and Thisbe by Francis Flute the bellows-mender.

Detailed explanation-2: -The title of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream has both literary and social significance. The title tells the audience right away that the play is going to deal in some way with a sort of dream on a summer night. To dream, a person must be asleep; however, most of the characters are awake throughout the play.

Detailed explanation-3: -A Midsummer Night’s Dream takes place across two settings: the court of Athens and the woods.

Detailed explanation-4: -I had a dream, past the wit of man to say what dream it was… The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath not seen, man’s hand is not able to taste, his tongue to conceive, nor his heart to report, what my dream was.

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