WAEC - Literature In English (2022 - No. 32)
William Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night's Dream
Read the extract below and answer the following questions
Go, Philostrate,
Sir up the Athenian youth to merriments;
Awake the pert and nimble spirit of mirth;
Turn melancholy forth to funerals:
The pale companion is not our pomp
Hippolyta, I wooed thee with my sword,
And won thy love doing thee injuries;
But I will wed thee in another key,
With pomp with triumph, and with reveling ( Act 1, Scene One, Lines 12-20)
Philostrate is
Clown of Hippolyta
Duke's entertainer
Fairy king's cuckold
Rival of Puck
Explanation
Philostrate is Duke Theseus's party planner. His official title is "Master of the Revels," which happened to be a court-appointed position in Shakespeare's day. Basically, the Master of the Revels organized courtly entertainments and also determined which plays could be performed at court and on public stages.
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