FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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True
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False
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Either A or B
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -An outbreak in 1592-93 closed London’s theatres and the decision would have been financially crippling to Shakespeare, who was only 28 years-old at the time. Refusing to bow to the disease however, the Bard turned to writing love poetry as a creative outlet and enjoyed great success.
Detailed explanation-2: -Shakespeare lived his life in plague-time. He was born in April 1564, a few months before an outbreak of bubonic plague swept across England and killed a quarter of the people in his hometown.
Detailed explanation-3: -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-4: -Part of the reason Shakespeare’s Sonnets speak to us so directly is that they are written with their own afterlife in mind. These are poems designed to commemorate the poet’s beloved for all eternity.