FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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It contains facts
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It contains opinions
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Either A or B
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -He is often called England’s national poet and the “Bard of Avon” (or simply “the Bard"). His extant works, including collaborations, consist of some 39 plays, 154 sonnets, three long narrative poems, and a few other verses, some of uncertain authorship.
Detailed explanation-2: -William Shakespeare was born in 1564 in Stratford-upon-Avon, a market town in a farming area of the Midlands. About 1000 people lived there. Shakespeare, England’s greatest writer, may have been born on St. George’s Day: he was baptised on 26th April, so it is possible, but we really don’t know.
Detailed explanation-3: -Sudden death stifled the articulate Roman’s tongue, and all he had time to say was, ‘Et tu, Brute!
Detailed explanation-4: -Shakespeare is often misunderstood or underappreciated by the modern reader. Many have suggested that this is due to the popular approach to his works; that is, reading them as merely a text when they are, in actuality, much more.