Drama A. King Lear 1. Why did King Lear wish to take no further part in the government of Britain? King Lear decided to take no further part in the government of Britain because he became old and he wanted to divide his kingdom between his three daughters. 2. Why did he call his three daughters to him? He called his three daughters to distributed his fortune and kigdom between them according to their love. 3. Which daughters each gained a half of Lear’s kingdom? Why was Cordelia left with nothing? Goneril and Regan each gained a half of the kingdom and Cordelia left with nothing because she said that she loves her dad for her duty. 4. “Old age had made Lear unwise. Give examples from the story to show the truth of this. - King Lear couldn’t tell truth from untruth, nor a brightly painted speech from words that came from the heart. He was so angry at Cordelia’s plainness of speech, which he called pride, that he shared the third part of his kingdom equally between Cordelia’s two sisters and their husbands. 5. What did the king keep for himself? - He kept only the title of king for himself, and it was agreed that he, and a hundred soldiers to serve him, should live month by month in each of his daughter’s palaces in turn. 6. How did the Earl of Kent try to interfere? What was the result of this? The Earl of Kent tried to speak for Cordelia but the honest words of this good Earl only made the king more angry. He ordered him to leave the country, and gave him only five days to prepare to do so or he would put him to death. 7. Name the two men who had wanted to marry Cordelia. Which of them finally did so? The king of France and Duke of Burgundy each wanted Cordelia for his wife. She finally married the king of France. 8. How did Regan and Goneril show their true characters? They were ungrateful daughters who were harsh with their father, disrespected and did not want him to be with them in the palace. They locked the door and left him in the distant storm with his soldiers. 9. What did Kent do in order to stay in Britain? - He dressed as a servant and offered his services to the king. 10. Where did Lear go when he left Goneril’s palace? What was the first thing he saw on his arrival? He went to Regan and sent his servant Caius with letters to his daughter Regan to prepare her palace for his arrival. The first thing he saw when he entered the castle was Caius is ordering to be publicly beaten and tied up in the square for everyone to see so King Lear saw his servant sitting in that shameful situation. 11. Why did Kent go to France? The earl of Kent went to France because he wanted to tell Cordelia of her father's pitiful conditions and how it had been caused by the cruelty of her sisters . 12. With whom did both Regan and Goneril fall in love with? It was Edmund, a natural son of the dead earl of Gloucester by has evil actions, he had removed his brother Edgur, the lawful heir from his possession and was now earl himself. 13. How did Regan and Goneril die? Goneril killed Regan by giving her poison and when Goneril's husband discovered what she had done, he put her in prison where she soon ended her own life. 14. What was Cordelia’s “sad end”? The sad end that was waiting for Cordelia is that the armies, which Goneril and Regan had sent out under the command if Edmund caught her and she was taken to prison and killed there. B – Romeo and Juliet 1. Who were the two chief families in Verona? Why were they enemies? - Two wealthy families of Verona, the Capulets and the Montagues, have been enemies for years because of an old quarrel. Their hatred caused fierce arguments and fights. 2. To which family did Romeo belong? Why did he go to the feast of his enemy? - Romeo belonged to Montegue's family. He went to the feast his enemy because he wanted to see Rosalina (his first love, before Julia). 3. With whom did Romeo go to the feast? Why were they not recognised? - He went with Benvolio and their friend Mercutio to this party of the Capulets. They weren’t recognized because they were wearing masks. 4. Who was Tybalt? How did he recognize Romeo at the ceremony? - Tybalt was a nephew of Lord Capulet. He heard Romeo by chance and knew him by his voice. 5. Give two reasons why Lord Capulet would not let Tybalt ‘strike young Romeo dead’. - Lord Capulet wouldn't let Tybalt strike Romeo dead, respecting for his guests and because Romeo behaved like a gentleman. 6. With whom did Romeo fall in love at the feast? How did he first show his love? - At the feast Romeo fell in love in beautiful Capulet's daughter, Juliet. 7. What did Romeo do after the feast was over? - He was unable to stay away from the house where he had left his heart, and he climbed over a wall into a garden which was at the back of Juliet’s house. 8. How did Romeo discover that Juliet loved him? - Romeo discovered that Juliet loved him when he heard her admitting her love to him while he was standing under her balcony after the feast. 9. ‘There is more danger in your eye than in twenty of their swords’ Explain what Romeo meant by this. - Romeo said these words to Juliet when she blamed him for putting himself in danger by climbing the garden wall because if any of her family found him there, they would kill him. He said that to show her that her love is worth the risk. 10. What did Juliet promise to do the next day? - She promised she would send a messenger to him the next day to fix a time for their marriage. 11. Why did Romeo go to see Friar Lawrence? - Romeo went to see friar Lawrence to ask him to get him married to Juliet. 12. Why did Friar Lawrence agrees to marry Romeo and Juliet secretly? - Friar Lawrence agreed to marry Romeo and Juliet secretly because he thought that a marriage between young Juliet and Romeo might happily put an end to the long quarrel between the Caplets and the Montagues. 13. What caused the quarrel between Mercutio and Tybalt? What deaths resulted from this quarrel? - At first, Tybalt criticized Mercutio for being a friend Romeo and Mercutio replied angrily to this. Later, Romeo showed up and told Tybalt that he had no wish to quarrel with him because he was a relation of Juliet and much loved by her and he never entered into the family quarrel. Mercutio thought that Romeo’s manners was a kind of dishonour and with many disrespectful words, he forced Tybalt to fight him first. Tybalt killed Mercutio during the fight. When Romeo realized that Mercutio was dead, he lost his temper and killed Tybalt. 14. What judgment did the prince of Verona give after the quarrel? What advice did Friar Lawrence give to Romeo? - Prince of Verona decided to expel Romeo from Verona to Mantua. Romeo and Juliet were lovers so they were desperate that Romeo had to left Verona for ever. The friar advised him to go that night and say goodbye secretly to Juliet. Then he should go straight to Mantua, where he should stay until the friar found a suitable time to make the news of his marriage public, which might be a joyful way of making the two families friends again. 15. Describe the new difficulty Juliet found herself in after Romeo had gone to Mantua. How did she try to escape from it? After Romeo had gone to Mantua, Juliet's parents decided that their daughter should marry Paris. 16 Why did Juliet go to Friar Lawrence? What did he tell her to do? - Juliet went to friar Lawrence to beg him to help her because her father wanted her to marry Paris the following Thursday. He told her to go home and pretend to accept to marry Paris then take a medicine that would make her lose consciousness and pretend to die for 42 hours, then when she woke up she would be with Romeo away from Verona. 17. Why was the “marriage feast turned to a black funeral’? - Juliet's family thought that she had died, so instead of marriage feast was black funeral. 18. “Bad news always travels faster than good.” Give an example of this front the story. Friar Lawrence sent a messenger to Romeo with his plan with Juliet. Unfortunately, the messenger didn't get to Romeo, so he couldn't know anything about Lawrence's plan. Instead, he found out about the death of his wife. 19. What work did an apothecary do? Why did Romeo visit one in Mantua? He sold poison to Romeo. Romeo visited him because he saw the man's beggarly appearance and empty boxes standing on dirty shelves so he was sure that he will give him the poison. 20. Where and when did Romeo and Paris meet? What happened as a result of this meeting? - Romeo and Paris meet on cemetery, over Julia's grave, after Romeo came back to Verona. As a result of meeting Romeo killed Paris, after that, he drunk poison (which he bought in Matua). 21. How did (a) Romeo and (b) Juliet die? a) Romeo had killed himself by drinking a poison beside Juliet in her tomb after killing Paris. b) When Juliet woke up and found Romeo dead beside her she used the knife, which Romeo used to kill Paris to kill herself. 22. Why did Friar Lawrence go to the tomb that night and why did he run away? - Friar Laurence went to the tomb that night to set Juliet free from her grave because the hour had come at which he had promised that she would wake. He was surprised to find a light already burning in the Capulets' grave, and to see swords and blood near it, and Romeo and Paris lying lifeless there. He ran away frightened by the noise. 23. What good resulted from the deaths of Romeo and Juliet? - The deaths of Romeo and Juliet removed the hates and jealousies of the two families and made the lords Capulet and Montague tri to do better than each other in their newfound friendship.
