ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
William Shakespeare was a great writer of both tragedy and comedy.
A
True
B
False
C
We don’t know
D
None of the above
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The text and the images are used here only for educational purposes. 1. William Shakespeare was a great writer of both tragedy and comedy. True.

Detailed explanation-2: -Plays. A number of Shakespeare’s plays are widely regarded as among the greatest in the English language and in Western literature. He wrote tragedies, histories, comedies and romances, which have been translated into every major living language, in addition to being continually performed around the world.

Detailed explanation-3: -In the First Folio, the plays of William Shakespeare were grouped into three categories: comedies, histories, and tragedies; and modern scholars recognize a fourth category, romance, to describe the specific types of comedy that appear in Shakespeare’s later works.

Detailed explanation-4: -Between about 1590 and 1613, Shakespeare wrote at least 37 plays and collaborated on several more.

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