ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS

PLAY BY SAKESPEAR

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Who is Bertram’s main companion throughout much of the play, “All’s Well that Ends Well”?
A
Parolles
B
Lafew
C
The First Lord
D
The Clown
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -A genial French nobleman named Dumaine, he serves in the Florentine army and becomes friends with Bertram.

Detailed explanation-2: -Parolles, Bertram’s friend in Shakespeare’s All’s Well That Ends Well, has often eclipsed Bertram in productions of the play and become the male centre of it, much as Falstaff overshadows Prince Hal in Henry IV Parts 1 and 2.

Detailed explanation-3: -All’s Well That Ends Well, comedy in five acts by William Shakespeare, written in 1601–05 and published in the First Folio of 1623 seemingly from a theatrical playbook that still retained certain authorial features or from a literary transcript either of the playbook or of an authorial manuscript.

Detailed explanation-4: -Edmund Bertram is a lead character in Jane Austen’s 1814 novel Mansfield Park. He is Sir Thomas’s second son and plans to be ordained as a clergyman. He falls in love with Mary Crawford who constantly challenges his vocation. Edmund goes ahead with ordination.

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