ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS

MACBETH

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Twelfth Night opens with the speech of?
A
Viola
B
Duke
C
Olivia
D
Malvolio
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -If music be the food of love, play on; Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die. That strain again!

Detailed explanation-2: -The Duke of Illyria, Orsino, is presented through his melodramatic declarations of love for a noblewoman named Olivia. He shows his obsession with this love throughout the entire first scene of Twelfth Night.

Detailed explanation-3: -In Shakespeare’s comedy Twelfth Night, the play opens with Duke Orsino seated gloomily in his chair listening to the sad strains of music played for him. He is unhappy because he cannot get what he wants.

Detailed explanation-4: -He tells the young lad that “if ever [Cesario] shalt love, ” then he should remember how Orsino suffered while he experienced love’s sweet pangs.

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