“Did He Even Know He Was Shakespeare?” Comprehension Qs
Answer the following questions in complete sentences.
1.[P13] What is the main idea of this paragraph?
[P14] What is the writer’s purpose for mentioning the project The Works of Benjamin Jonson?
3.[P18-19] Why were “the internal title pages for individual plays” in most cases “deliberately misdated (P18)”?
4.[P21] In this paragraph, the writer repeats the sentence pattern of “We assume~” three times. Why? What is the writer’s purpose for doing so?
5.[P28] What are “the two “Pavier” plays that were published as Shakespeare’s (P28)”? Name the plays.
6.[P25-29] Briefly summarize how the First Folio left and then came back to the Bodleian.