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