Question

BOTTOM.

Well, I will undertake it. What beard were I best to play it in?

QUINCE.

Why, what you will.

BOTTOM.

I will discharge it in either your straw-colour beard, your orange-tawny beard, your purple-in-grain beard, or your French-crown-colour beard, your perfect yellow.

QUINCE.

Some of your French crowns have no hair at all, and then you will play barefaced. But, masters, here are your parts, and I am to entreat you, request you, and desire you, to con them by tomorrow night; and meet me in the palace wood, a mile without the town, by moonlight; there will we rehearse, for if we meet in the city, we shall be dogg’d with company, and our devices known. In the meantime I will draw a bill of properties, such as our play wants. I pray you fail me not.

BOTTOM.

We will meet, and there we may rehearse most obscenely and courageously. Take pains, be perfect; adieu.

QUINCE.

At the Duke’s oak we meet.

BOTTOM.

Enough. Hold, or cut bow-strings.



From A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare

Question
Use the passages to answer the question. Select Passage 1 and Passage 2.

Select the correct answers from the lists.

(1 point)
Shakespeare’s play uses the same
as Ovid’s book, but the
Shakespeare uses is very different.

Answer 1

Shakespeare’s play uses the same **theme** as Ovid’s book, but the **style** Shakespeare uses is very different.