“LAST LAUGHS”
Following are the final lines of five Shakespeare plays often classified as comedies. Match the right title to each concluding statement.
1. Tis a wonder, by your leave, she will be tam’d so.”
2. Sir John/To Master Brooke you yet shall hold your word,/For he tonight shall lie with Mistress Ford.”
3. We came into the world like brother and brother;/And now let’s go hand in hand, not one before another.”
4. Well, while I live I’ll fear no other thing/So sore, as keeping safe Nerissa’s ring.
5. Till then I’ll sweat and seek about for eases,/And at that time bequeath you my diseases.
a. The Merry Wives if Windsor
b. The Comedy of Errors
c. The Taming of the Shrew
d. Troilus and Cressida
e. The Merchant of Venice
ANSWERS:
1.C spoken by Lucentio
2. A spoken by Ford to Falstaff
3. B Dromio of Ephesus
4. E Gratiano
5. D Pandarus bequeathing his venereal diseases.
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