ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Why might Shakespeare find it unusual for people to study his plays as great works of literature?
A
His plays were meant to be acted out and watched rather than read.
B
He didn’t think that he was a very good writer at all.
C
He was actually not even the person who wrote famous plays.
D
He was very private, and didn’t want anybody to enjoy his plays.
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -His plays give us the greatest sense of the value of human life; of how people live; of how people love and of the importance of human relationships than any other writers of his time or of any other time. Shakespeare’s plays are as popular as they are because he was perhaps the greatest writer who has ever lived.

Detailed explanation-2: -Shakespeare’s works have strong themes that run through each piece. And again, these themes are still relevant today – love, death, ambition, power, fate, free will, just to name a few. So Shakespeare’s works are timeless and universal. That also makes them relatable.

Detailed explanation-3: -Shakespeare’s unique writing style William Shakespeare’s style of writing evolved out of the conventional style of the time. Highly stylized, Shakespeare wrote in iambic pentameter–a type of unrhymed meter that contains 10 syllables in each phrase, with each unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable.

Detailed explanation-4: -Q: Why do some readers find Shakespeare’s writing difficult? Some readers find Shakespeare’s writing difficult because the English language was different at that time. It is not because of ignorance or illiteracy. The only reason is that many words have changed their meanings over these centuries.

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