Starter quiz
- In 'A Midsummer Night's Dream', which characters are supernatural?
- Bottom
- Puck ✓
- Titania ✓
- Theseus
- Oberon ✓
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- What type of play is 'A Midsummer Night's Dream'?
- supernatural
- history
- myth
- comedy ✓
- tragicomedy
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- When we talk about Shakespeare's plays, we give them genres. What does genre mean?
- the amount of humour in a text
- the style or type of text ✓
- the ending of a text
- when the text was written
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- Shakespeare wrote just under 40 plays. What genre of plays did he write?
- horrors
- comedies ✓
- tragedies ✓
- histories ✓
- epilogues
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- 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' is a comedy. What are some of the key features of a Shakespearean comedy?
- They end in chaos and disorder.
- They include chaos and disorder. ✓
- They include the supernatural.
- They end in marriage(s). ✓
- They have intricate plots. ✓
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- A pupil said: "Shakespeare created the name and character of Puck/Robin Goodfellow". How would you correct them?
- Robin Goodfellow was a well known figure in Elizabethan folklore. ✓
- Shakespeare stole these names from another playwright.
- The word "puck" was a common name for an evil fairy in Elizabethan England. ✓
- The name Puck was famous, but he came up with Goodfellow to show Puck is kind.
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