課程名稱︰ 莎劇選讀
課程性質︰ A1通識
課程教師︰ 邱錦榮
開課學院： 文學院
開課系所︰ 文學以外
考試日期（年月日）︰ 103年4月15日
考試時限（分鐘）：2小時
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試題 : Shakespeare in Love, Romeo and Juliet, Othello
I. Identify the speaker. 40%
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│ Characters in Shakespeare in love: │
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│ Will Shakespeare Richard Burbage Dr. Moth Queen Elizabeth│
│ Viola Lord Wessex John Webster Fennyman Ned Alleyn │
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│ Characters in Romeo and Juliet: │
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│ Romeo Juliet Capulet Tybalt Nurse Paris │
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│ Characters in Othello: │
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│ Othello Barbantio Cassio Iago Duke of Venica │
│ Desdemona Emilia │
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1. ...and she in spite of nature,/ Of years, of country, credit, everything,/To
fall in love with what she feared to look on!
2. I'm the money.
3. Show a fair presence and put off these frowns,/An ill-beseeming semblance
for a feast.
4. It fits when such a villain is a guest. I'll not endure him.
5. She is abused, stol'n from me, and corrupted/By spells and medicines
bought of mountebanks.
6. Did my heart love till now? Forswear it, sight! For I ne'er saw true beauty till
this night.
7. O strumpet,...weepest thou for him in my face?
8. You will never age for me, nor fade, nor die.
9. My plantations in Virginia are not mortgaged for a nutmeg.
10.Can a play show us the very truth and nature of love? I bear witness to the
wager, and will be the judge of it as occasion arises.
11.Love goes toward love as schoolboys from their books,/But love from love,
toward school with heavy looks.
12.What lady's that which doth enrich the hand/Of yonder knight?...? O,
she doth teach the torches to shine.
13.I was a lad of eighteen. Anne Hathaway was a women, half as old again.
14.Virtue? A fig! 'Tis in ourselves that we are thus or thus. Our bodies are our
gardens, to the which our wills are gardeners....
15.Are you lately humbled in the act of love?
16.My only love sprung from my only hate!/Too early seen unknown, and
known too late!
17.The robbed that smiles steals something from the theif;/He robs himself
that spends a bootless grief.
18.Some bloody passion shakes your very frame,/These are portents; but yet I
hope, I hope,/They do not point on me.
19.Can I go forward when my heart is here?/Turn back, dull earth, and find
thy center out.
20.I pray you in your letters...then must you speak/Of one that lov'd not
wisely, but too well.
II. Fill in the blanks with appropriate words. 20%
1. She lov'd me for the ___ I has pass'd,
2. And I lov'd her that she ___ them.
3. I think that tale would w___ my daughter too....
4. ...my story being done,/She gave me for my p___ a world of sighs...
5. She wish'd she had not heard it; yet she wish'd ___ had made her such a
husband.
6. If I profane with my unworthiest hand/This holy s___, the gentle
7. sin is this:/My lips, two blushing p___, ready stand
8. To s___ that rough t___ with a tender kiss.
9. My bounty is as b___less as the sea,/My love as deep; the more I give
10.thee,/The more I have, for both are ___.
III. Essay questions. Choose only one from the following. 20%
1. Is the movie Shakespeare in Love a true story about the Bard? Explain.
2. Do you think Shakespeare romanticizes or idealizes the hero and heroine in
Romeo and Juliet?
3. What is the function and significance of the strawberry-patterned
handkerchief in Othello?
4. Iago makes a disproportionate revenge on Othello and perhaps on
Desdemona as well. What are his reasons given out in the play? "He is evil
because he is evil," Dr. Stanly Wells comments on Iago. Do you agree to this
view?
IV. Take-home essay 20%
(The professor would allow you to write an essay before the exam which you
must hand in on the day of the exam.)