Reading Comprehension
As enthusiasm for Shakespearean drama has increased, the tendency has been steadily away from realism and spectacle and steadily
toward a rediscovery of the Shakespearean play in a condition resembling its first staging. It has, for instance, been realized that the
alternation of scenes—swift scenes following the major crises, gay scenes switching the mood from sadness, comedy breaking in on dire
tragedy—enormously enhances the emotional effect of the whole play. Shakespeare wrote his plays to be acted at a single stretch. The
alternation of scene and mood is like the orchestration of a symphony, the climaxes carefully prepared in subsidiary themes, the tension
heightened or relaxed, the movement quickened or slowed to suit the general rhythm of the drama. It follows that Shakespeare cannot be
successfully confined on a stage within a picture-frame set statically fixed throughout the three-quarters of an hour allotted to each act.
The stage must be one on which the quick succession of scenes and rapid alternation of moods is technically possible. 【題組】Certain scenes in a Shakespearean play are written to __________.
(A) provide a musical theme
(B) decrease production costs
(C) show Shakespeare’s versatility
(D) contribute to a desired effect
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