JSC Unseen : Shakespeare
Read the following text carefully and answer questions 4 and 5.
The greatest dramatist of English literature named Shakespeare was born and died at the same date. It was on the 23rd April. He was born on Stratford on Avon. This is why he is called the ‘Bard of Avon’. He wrote 37 plays and 154 sonnets. Spreads fame to his unrivalled knowledge of human nature and the sympathy and understanding with which he has painted almost every type and class of character.
This is a poem in which the poet’s love of nature has found an eloquent expression as has as an undertone, his deep concern for the limitations of human society. In the rough weather nature has no particular enmity towards man and it treats all equally. The forest is the place for one who is content with the small pleasures of life and has little ambition. |
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4.Complete the following table with the information given in the passage
Who | Events | Where/ How many | Time/What |
Shakespeare | Was born | (i)————– | On 23rd April |
He | Is called | (ii)———- | |
He | (iii) —— | 154 | Sonnets |
He | Wrote | (iv)————– | Plays |
He | died | (v)————- |
5. Read the passage again and write True or False beside the following statements. Give answers for the false statements :
- a) Shakespeare is mostly known for his Sonnets.
- b) He was born in England.
- c) He wrote 37 dramas.
- d) His name and fame is still unrivaled.
- e) He painted only tragic type of character in his plays.