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WAEC - Literature In English (2024 - No. 36)

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...

At the end of the speech, 

Hippolyta storms out of the place
Philostrate announces the prologue
the ladies settle down
the curtain is drawn

Explanation

At the end of Theseus' speech in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Philostrate announces the prologue for the play-within-the-play performed by the mechanicals. Theseus has just shared his thoughts on how even the most eloquent speakers can falter in his presence, and after this, the performance of Pyramus and Thisbe begins, introduced by Philostrate.

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