Choose two scenes you read in this collection. In the case of each, describe a backdrop that would create atmosphere and intensify the emotion of the scene.
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P. 108 Shakespeare Quiz
All the answers to these questions can be found in this Shakespeare chapter. Each correct answer scores 2 marks.
1. How many plays did Shakespeare write: 27, 37 or 47? 2. What is the correct term for the central idea that runs through a play?
3. Shakespeare wrote in a poetic form called: free verse, blank verse or rhyming verse?
4. Into how many acts is each play divided?
5. True or false: A soliloquy is when the character speaks a long speech to one other character.
6. Which play has made a balcony in Verona famous? 7. In which play do we meet Portia and Nerissa? 8. In which play does this line appear: ‘All the world’s a stage’? 9. Name Shakespeare’s play about an assassinated Roman emperor.
10. What is the name of the theatre most associated with Shakespeare? 11. Name three plays in this chapter that are set in Italy.
12. Name the man who said about Shakespeare, ‘He was not of an age, but for all time’.
13. What does the word ‘dénouement’ mean?
14. What is the word for a small movement that conveys meaning without words?
15. Some of Shakespeare’s plays are tragedies; some are and some are histories.
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