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WAEC - Literature In English (2024 - No. 32)

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: A Midsummer Night's Dream

Read the extract below and answer the question:

Where I have come, great clerks have purposed

To greet me with premeditated welcomes;

Where I have seen them shiver and look pale,

Make periods in the midst of sentences,

Throttle their practised accent I their fears,

And in conclusion, dumbly have broken off,

Not paying me a welcome...

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: A Midsummer Night's Dream

Read the extract below and answer the question:

Where I have come, great clerks have purposed

To greet me with premeditated welcomes;

Where I have seen them shiver and look pale,

Make periods in the midst of sentences,

Throttle their practised accent I their fears,

And in conclusion, dumbly have broken off,

Not paying me a welcome...

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: A Midsummer Night's Dream

Read the extract below and answer the question:

Where I have come, great clerks have purposed

To greet me with premeditated welcomes;

Where I have seen them shiver and look pale,

Make periods in the midst of sentences,

Throttle their practised accent I their fears,

And in conclusion, dumbly have broken off,

Not paying me a welcome...

The speaker is

Helena
Hermia
Philostrate
Theseus

Explanation

The lines in the extract are spoken by Theseus, the Duke of Athens, in A Midsummer Night’s Dream. In this passage, Theseus is describing how scholars and learned men (great clerks) become nervous and tongue-tied in his presence, despite their attempts to prepare formal welcomes for him. This happens in Act V Scene I. Theseus addresses Hippolyta about the play that is about to be acted by Peter Qunince and the mechanicals. 

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