WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: A Midsummer Night's Dream
Read the extract and answer the following question.
As wagish boys in a game themselves forswear;
So the boy Love is perjured everywhere;
For ere Demetrius looked on Hermia's eyne,
He hailed down oaths that he was only mine;
And when this hail some heat from Hermia felt,
So he dissolved and showers of oaths did melt
The speech shows that the speaker is
The speaker's mood stems from
The speaker has just said farewell to
The speaker resolves to tell
Read the extract below and answer the following question:
(In the Town Hall)
Jonsey: (By himself, centre right, looking sulky) How does anyone keep faith with himself In such an ill-made place?
Bassy, Ba-a-ssy!
Bassy: Here. Anything the matter?
Jonsey: (Moves front stage centre right) Your mayoral hopeful.
Jonsey's opening speech illustrates