Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: May 22, 2025
Is the Princess justified in disciplining him? How much of her discipline is due to the event that cuts short the Play? Judging from his character, do you think he will stand the "twelvemonth" test? Is Berowne the oldest as well as the deepest and wisest of the men? How does he show all this? Why does Rosaline discipline him? Is she in insight superior to him as the Princess is to the King?
Armado now takes his next turn at making Costard's sentence a hollow mockery by sending him as a messenger to Jacquenetta. How is this first letter-carrying made to lead to a second, doubling the mockery and promising new confusions? Has Moth anything to do with the scheme of the Play? Who is the "Boy" of whom Berowne speaks repeatedly in his speech concluding this Act?
Bring out the argument, in full, on both sides, as expressed by the King and his lords, on the one side, and by one lord who is less subservient on the other side. What does Berowne object to in the King's idea about study and fame?
If Shakespeare's spirit, as manifested in this Play, had been more influential practically, do you think a different road would have been taken? How far is Berowne to be taken as the spokesman of Shakespeare? Why does so frolicsome a Comedy end so seriously? Does that make it funnier? Is there really a moral in the Play in favor of nature and sincerity or is it merely read into it?
Is the Princess too hard upon him? Why does Berowne scoff so fiercely at Boyet? Is the presentation of the Nine Worthies too absurd in itself to mix well with the courtliness, learning, and elaborate wit of the rest of the Play? The Princess's defence of it and its correspondence with that of Theseus for the show of the "base mechanicals" in the "Midsommer Nights Dreame."
How does it all prepare the way for the sudden sad message, and also for the decision of the Ladies to rebuff love that is not serious? What special point is there in the kind of trial Rosaline and her mistress each specially propose for Berowne and the King?
Why does the Princess discount Boyet's remarks and accuse him of joking? Does she give any clew to her own feelings? Why is it in keeping with the Play that Berowne should be the first of the Lords to be foresworn? In making Armado the keeper of Costard, the Clown's breaking of the vow has already been satirized by the King's own act.
Berowne, as the name appears in the Folio, is an English spelling of the French name Biron, to which it is changed in modernized editions of Shakespeare. Longavill is an English equivalent of Longueville, and Dumaine or Dumane of De Mayenne, names which also are changed in the modernized editions, although not consistently. All these names are associated with Navarre's struggles in France.
Is Costard the bumpkin the best actor in the Mask of the Worthies? Why? Why is Jaquenetta the least and Moth the most discomfitted of the third group of characters? Dowden says the women of the Play "have not the entire advantage on their side." What do they lack? He also says, to bear this out, that "Berowne is yet a larger nature than the Princess or Rosaline."
Of what use are all these new characters to the Plot? One has been before heard from, but is he of the most or least use here? Are they of use to the story in any other way, later? In what respects do their tricks of speech and affectation of learning suit the aim of the Comedy? Show how the Sonnet-writing is made the means of unmasking the lovers to each other and all of them to Berowne.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking