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Time : 3 hours Maximum Marks : 100

Note : Answer Question no. 1, which is compulsory and any

four from the remaining questions. All questions carry

equal marks.

1. Annotate any four of the following passages with

reference to content , in not more than 150 words

each. 4x5=20

(a) Such was Pythagoras' thigh, Pandora's tub

And all the fable of media's charms.

The manner of our work;

(b) I hit a blow on the ridge of his skull laid him

stretched out, and he split to the knob of his

gullet.

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and I can't think what it was to, feel young,

really young.

(d) To die, to sleep;

To sleep : perchance to dream; ay, there is

the rub.

(e) Homo fuge! Within should I fly ?

If unto God, he'll throw me down to hell'.

2. Critically examine the elements of Aristolehiss 20

tragedy in Elizabethan drama (400 words)

Discuss the nature of the four temptations that

Beckett confronts in Murder in the Cathedral (400

words)

3. Critically analyse Hamlet as a revenge play (400 20

words)

What is Romantic comedy ? How did

Shakespeare alter the romantic comedy formula

in A Midsummer Night's dream ?

4. "Doctor Faustus is a Tragedy of the Renaissance 20

and Reformation comment (400 words).

Analyse the structure of The Alchemist (400 words)

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5. Examine The Playboy of the Western World as an 20

"extravagant comedy" (400 words)

Comment on the title of the play Look Back in

Anger (400 words)

6. How does Shaw attack social snobbery and class 20

difference in Pygmalion ? (400 words)

Outline the changes that Lucky and Pozzo

undergo during the course of the play Waiting for

Godot (400 words)

7. Write short notes on any two of the following is

not more than 200 words each :

(a) Chorus in Murder in the Cathedral

(b) Pegcen Mike

(d) The cheats in The Alchemist

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December, 2011

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Time : 3 hours Maximum Marks : 100

Note : Answer Question no. 1, which is compulsory and any

four from the remaining questions. All questions carry

equal marks.

1. Annotate any four of the following passages with

reference to context, in not more than 150 words

4 each : x5=20

(a) This soul should fly from me,

And I be changed into some brutish beast.

(b) Well, you're the walking playboy of the

Western World, and that's the poor man yciu

had divided to his breeches belt.

Words without never to heaven go.

(d) Woman upset everything. When you let

them into your life, you find that the woman

is driving at one thing and you're driving at

another.

(e) It is not in time that my death shall be

known ? It out of time that my dicision is

taken.

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2. Examine the tradition of the English Morality play. 20

Analyse the idea of Martyrdom in murder in the

cathedral.

3. Discuss the "grand quarell scene" between 20

Hermia and Helena in A Midsummer Night's

Dream.

Outline the major themes in Hamlet's soliloquise.

4. Do you agree with the idea that Doctor Faustus is 20

a study in the duality of Christian faith ?

Comment on the use of alchemy in the Alchemist

5. Discuss the Playboy of the Western World as a dark 20

comedy.

Analyse the Jimmy - Alison relationship in Look

Back in anges.

6. Discuss Doolilttle's criticism of middle class 20

morality in Pygmalion.

Critically examine the structures of Waiting for

Godot.

7. Write short notes on any two of the following in

not more than 200 words each :

(a) Romantic Comedy

(b) Shawn Keogh

(d) Lucky

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Time : 3 hours Maximum Marks : 100

Note : Answer Question no. 1, which is compulsory and any

four from the remaining questions. All questions carry

equal marks.

1. Annotate any four of the following passages with

reference to the context in not more than

150 words each : 4x5=20

(a) Let Faustus live in hell

a thousand years,

A hundred thousand and

at last be saved !

0, no end is limited to

damned souls !

Why wert thou not a

creature wanting soul ?

Or why is this immortal

that thou hast ?

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(b) To be , or not to be , that is

the question

Whether 'tis nobler in the

mind to suffer

The Slings and arrows of

outrageous fortune,

Or to take up arms against

a sea of troubles,

And by opposing , end them.

To die , to sleep -

No more.

all the eyes

Of court a - fire , like a burning glass,

And work 'em into cinders ;

when the jewels

Of twenty states adorn thee,

and the light

Strike out the stars; and that ,

when thy name is mentioned,

Queens may look pale :

(d) From this out I'll have

no want of company when all

sorts is bringing me their

food and clothing ( he swaggers

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to the door , tightening his belt ),

the way they'd set their eyes

upon a gallant orphan cleft

his father with one blow to the

breeches belt.

(e) There's hardly a moment

when I'm not - watching

and wanting you . I've got

to hit out somehow . Nearly

four years of being in the

same room with you , night

and day , and I still

can't stop my sweat break -

ing out when I see you

doing -- something as ordinary

as leaning over an ironing

board.

2. Discuss critically the modernity of Elizabethan 20

tragedy. (400 words)

How did Shakespeare alter the Romantic

Comedy formula in A Midsummer Night's

Dream ? (400 words)

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3. Dr. Fanstus stands for the Renaissance man ? Is 20

this a fair assessment of his character ?

(400 words)

It is through Subtle that Ben Jonson has exposed

and satirized the cheats and swindlers who

flourished in his age. ( 400 words )

4. Bring out the full significance of the play within 20

play in Hamlet. (400 words)

Make a critical assessment of Jimmy - Alison

relationship in Look Back In Anger.

(400 words)

5. Examine critically The Play boy of the Western 20

World as a Dark Comedy. (400 words)

6. Examine the interaction of the two tramps, 20

Estragon and Vladimir, in waiting for Godot.

(400 words)

Is Shaw's Verbal humour only funny, or is it also

instructive ? Illustrate your answer with examples

from Pygmalion. (400 words)

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7. Write short notes on any two of the following

in 200 words each : 2x10=20

(a) Martyrdom in Murder in the Cathedral

(b) Renaissance spirit in Elizabethan comedy

(d) Helen in Dr. Faustus

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Time : 3 hours Maximum Marks : 100

Note : Answer Question no. 1, which is compulsory and any

four from the remaining questions. All questions carry

equal marks.

1. Annotate any four of the following passages with

reference to the context, is not more than

150 words each : 4x5=20

(a) --- a s imagination bodies forth

The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen

Turns them to shapes, and gives to aery

nothing

A local habitation and name.

(b) Give me that man

that is not passion's slave, and I will wear

him

In my heart's core, ay in my heart of heart,

As I do thee--

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Of a new shop, and it like your worship;

just,

At corner of a street.

(Here's the plot on't)

And I would know by art,

sir, of your worship,

Which way I should make my door, by

neeromancy,

And, where my selves. And, which

should be for boxes.

And, which for pots.

(d) I rage and shout my head off, and every one

thinks = poor chap!" or = What an

objectionable young man?" But that girl

there can twist your arms off with her

silence ---

I want to be there when you groved. I want

to be there, I want to watch it. I want the

front seat.

(e) Vladimir : Charming evening we are

having.

Estragon : Unforgettable

Vladimir : And it's not over.

Estragon : Apparently not. --

Estragon : It's awful.

Vladimir : Worse than mine.

Estragon : The circus.

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2. Comment on the senecan influence over the 20

Elizabethan tragedy. (400 words)

Bring out the role of the fairies in A Mid Summer

Night's Dream. (400 words)

3. Examine the Renaissance and Reformation 20

strains in Dr. Faustus. (400 words)

The tragedy of Hamlet is the tragedy of a man

obsessed with melancholy. Examine it critically.

(400 words)

4. What makes the Alchemist so popular among 20

theatre groups both in the Elizabethan and the

Modern age. (400 words)

Examine the playboy of the Western world as an

extravagant comedy and bildungsroman.

(400 words)

Bring out the element of misogyny in Look Back In

Anger. (400 words)

5. What is so unique about the structure of Waiting 20

for Godot ? Illustrate from the text. (400 words)

Bring out the role that the chorus plays in

Murder in the Cathedral. (400 words)

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6. Was Bernard Shaw a romantic? Is the element of 20

romance in. the play in harmony with the

ideology of Pygmalion ? (400 words)

Discuss, the unity of time, place and action in

Elizabethan comedy. (400 words)

7. Write short notes on any two of the following

in not more than 200 words each : 2x10=20

(a) Horatio in Hamlet

(b) Significance of dream. A Midsummer Night's

Dream.

(d) The theatre of the Absurd

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Time : 3 hours Maximum Marks : 100

Note : Answer Question No. 1, which is compulsory and any

four from the remaining questions. All questions carry

equal marks.

1. Annotate any four of the following passages with

reference to context in not more than 150 words

each : 4x5=20

(a) Her lips suck forth my soul:

See where it flies !

Come, Helen, come, give me

my soul again.

(b) Your vows to her and me,

put in two scales,

will even weigh; and both as

light as tales.

from Ormus,

That shall yield him such a

commodity

of drugs - This is the west, and

this the south ?

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(d) If then last nature in thee

bear it not,

Let not the royal bed of

Denmark bell

Adien, adien, adien, remember me.

(e) Nearly four years of being in the same room

with you, night and day, and I still can't

stop my sweat breaking out when I see you

doing something as ordinary as

leaning over an ironing board.

2. Discuss the main features of Elizabethan tragedy. 20

(400 words)

Critically examine Ben Jonson's comedy of

Humours (400 words)

3. Analyse the structure of Hamlet. (400 words) 20

How does Jonson produce the illusion of reality

with respect to alchemy ? (400 words)

4. Do you think tragic irresolution is the strength of 20

Doctor Faustus ? (400 words)

How did Shakespeare alter the Romantic Comedy

formula in A Midsummer Nights Dream ?

(400 words)

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5. Comment on themes and issues that show raises 20

in Pygmalion ? (400 words)

Comment on the title, The Playboy of the Western

World. (400 words)

6. Discuss Waiting for Godot as an existentialist play. 20

(400 words)

Comment on Becket's silence after the fourth

temptation in Murder in the Cathedral.

(400 words)

7. Write short notes on any two of the following

(200 words each) 2x10=20

(a) Chorus in Murder in the Cathedral

(b) Theatre of Realism

(d) Angry young man

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Time : 3 hours Maximum Marks : 100

Note : Answer Question No. 1, which is compulsory, and any

four from the remaining questions. All questions carry

equal marks.

1. Annotate any four of the following poems/

passages with reference to the context in not more

than 150 words : 4x5=20

(a) My words fly up, my

thoughts remain below :

words without thoughts never

to heaven go.

(b) Helen, whose beauty caused

Troy to burn, will do

the same for faustus ; the

immortality offered by

the kisses of a demon lover is an

eternity in hell.

disgusting sounds has no right to be

anywhere - no right to live

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(d) Was not all the knowledge of the Egyptians

writ in mystic symbols ?

Speak not the scripture oft

in parallels ?

(e) " and I not knowing at all there was

the like of you drawing nearer, like the stars

of God."

2. Examine the role of the Renaissance in the growth 20

of Elizabethan drama (400 words)

Analyse the basic plot of romantic comedy

(400 words).

3. Describe critically "To be, or not to be" in the 20

context of Shakespeare's Hamlet (400 words).

What aspects of Jacobean society have been

depicted in Jonson's The Alchemist ? (400 words).

4. Analyse the role of Mephistophilis in Doctor 20

Faustus (400 words).

Discuss the significance of the pastoral in A

Midsummer Nights Dream. (400 words)

5. Discuss critically the Alison-Jimmy relationship 20

in Look Back in Anger. (400 words)

Discuss the comic conventions in Pygmalion

(400 words).

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6. Analyse the structure of Waiting for Godot 20

(400 words).

What is the role played by the Chorus in Murder

in the Cathedral ? (400 words)

7. Write short notes on any two of the following :

(200 words each) 2x10=20

(a) Lucky

(b) Miracle Plays

(d) Prick

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Time : 3 hours Maximum Marks : 100

Note : Answer Question no. 1, which is compulsory and any four

from the remaining questions. All questions carry equal marks.

1. Critically comment on any four of the following 4x5=20

passages with reference to context, in not more

than 150 words each:

(a) His faith is great; I cannot touch his soul;

But what I may afflict his body with I will

attempt, which is but little worth.

(b) Why should you think that I should woo in

scorn?

Scorn and derision never come in tears.

Look when I vow, I weep; and vows-so born,

In their nativity all truth appears.

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Whether' tis nobler in the mind to suffer

The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,

Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,

And by opposing, end them.

(d) I'm only a common ignorant girl:

and in my station I have to be careful.

There can't be any feelings between the like

of you and the like of me.

(e) 0, what else, sir?

And that you'll make her royal with the stone,

And empress; and yourself king of Bantam.

2. "The Alchemist" is a satire on human follies 20

and foibles." Discuss,

OR.

Discuss 'Doctor Faustus' as essentially a

Renaissance tragedy.

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3. The chorus in Murder in the cathedral, 20

reflects the growth in Thomas Becket.

Discuss.

OR.

What is the significance of 'dream' in the title

of the play A Midsummer Night's Dream?

4. Discuss 'Hamlet' as a tragedy. 20

OR.

Discuss The Play boy of the Western World

as a folk play.

5. Does Shaw's use of myth contribute to the 20

enrichment of Pygmalion? Justify your

answer.

OR.

Discuss Samuel Becketts Waiting for Godot

as a tragicomedy.

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6. What is your understanding of the concept 20

of the 'angry young man' in the play Look

Back in Anger? Explain.

OR.

Critically examine the role of Renaissance

in the growth of the Elizabethan Drama.

7. Write short notes on any two of the following 2x10=20

in not more than 200 words each:

(a) Claudius.

(b) Bottom

(d) The Theatre of the Absurd

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Time : 3 hours Maximum Marks : 100

Note : Answer question no. 1, which is compulsory and

any four from the remaining questions. All

questions carry equal marks.

1. Critically comment on any four of the following

passages with reference to context, in not more

than 150 words each : 4 x5=20

(a) I hit a blow on the ridge of his skull, laid

him stretched out, and he split to the knob

of his gullet.

(b) Have you not done tormenting me with

your accursed time ! ... One day, is that not

enough for you, one day he went dumb, ...

one day we were born, one day we shall die,

the same day, the same second ...

If thou wilt not have mercy on my soul

Yet, for Christ's sake, whose blood hath

ransom'd me

Impose some end to my incessant pain.

Car- .1r- 1=1 *al

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(d) Such an act

That blurs the grace and blush of modesty,

Calls virtue hypocrite, takes off the rose

From the fair forehead of innocent love

And sets the blister there.

(e) You do advance your cunning more and more.

When truth kills truth, 0 devilish-holy fray !

These vows are Hermia's: will you give her o'er ?

Weigh oath with oath, and you will nothing

weigh.

2. Write a note on Comedy of Humours with special

reference to Ben Jonson's The Alchemist. 20

Attempt a critical appreciation of Doctor Faustus

as dramatic poetry.

3. Delineate the nature of the four temptations that

Becket undergoes in the play Murder in the

Cathedral. 20

What are the common points between the main

play and the Mechanicals' play in Shakespeare's

A Midsummer Night's Dream ?

4. Write a critical note on Hamlet's attitude

towards Claudius in the play Hamlet. 20

Write an essay on imagery in J.M. Synge's

The Playboy of the Western World.

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5. How does Shaw denounce social snobbery and

class distinctions in his play Pygmalion ? 20

Discuss Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot as an

Existentialist play.

6. Give a brief character-sketch of Jimmy in

Osborne's Look Back in Anger. 20

Discuss the salient features of the mature

Elizabethan tragedy.

7. Write short notes on any two of the following in

not more than 200 words each : 2 x10=20

(a) Beatrice

(b) Subtle

(d) Eliot's views on Poetic Drama

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Time : 3 hours Maximum Marks : 100

Note : Answer question no. 1, which is compulsory and

any four from the remaining questions. All

questions carry equal marks.

1. Annotate any four of the following passages with

reference to the context, in not more than 150

words each : 4 x 5=20

(a) Now, Faustus, must thou needs be damned ?

And canst thou not be sav'd.

What boots it then to think of God or heaven ?

Away with such fancies, and despair;

Despair in God, and trust in Belzebub.

(b) Such an act

That blurs the grace and blush of modesty,

Calls virtue hypocrite, takes off the rose

From the fair forehead of innocent love

And sets the blister there, make marriage vows

As false as dicers' oaths - 0, such a deed ...

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when all sorts is bringing me their food

and clothing (he swaggers to the door,

tightening his belt), the way they'd set

their eyes upon a gallant orphan cleft his

father with one blow to the breeches belt.

(d) It is not in time that my death shall be known;

It is out of time that my decision is taken

If you call that a decision

To which my whole being gives entire consent.

I give my life

To the law of God above the law of Man.

(e) But, you see, I was the only one who cared. His

family were embarrassed by the whole business.

Embarrassed and irritated ... We, all of us

waited for him to die ... Every time I sat on the

edge of his bed, to listen to him talking or

reading to me, I had to fight back my tears. At

the end of twelve months, I was a veteran ... you

see, I learnt at an early age what it was to be

angry — angry and helpless. And I can never

forget it. I knew more about — love ... betrayal

... and death, when I was ten years old than you

will probably know all your life.

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2. Bring out the interplay of the Renaissance and

Reformation strain in Elizabethan tragedy.

(450 words) 20

What is the basic plot of Romantic Comedy ? Why

does it end in feasting and dancing ? (450 words)

3. Bring out the enormous significance of the

soliloquies in Hamlet. (450 words) 20

Discuss The Alchemist as a classical tragedy in

which unities of time, place and action are strictly

followed. (450 words)

4. Make a critical assessment of Jimmy - Alison

relationship from a feminist perspective.

(450 words) 20

Examine The Playboy of the Western World as an

extravagant comedy and bildungsroman.

(450 words)

5. Bring out the full significance of the title Waiting

for Godot. (450 words) 20

How is Pygmalion, an early 20th century play set

in England meaningful to you in India at the end

of the millenium ? (450 words)

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6. What is the role of the chorus in Murder in the

Cathedral ? (450 words) 20

Discuss the gender issues in A Midsummer

Night's Dream. List the many instances of

Shakespeare's sympathy for women in the play.

(450 words)

7. Write short notes on any two of the

following : 2x10=20

(a) Dr. Faustus as the tragedy of a

Renaissance man

(b) Lucky in Waiting for Godot

(d) Prof. Higgins in Pygmalion

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Time : 3 hours Maximum Marks : 100

Note : Answer question no. 1, which is compulsory and

any four from the remaining questions. All

questions carry equal marks.

1. Annotate any four of the following passages with

reference to the context, in not more than 150

words each : 4x5=20

(a) Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss.

Her lips suck forth my soul: see, where it flies !

Come, Helen, come, give me my soul again.

Here will I dwell, for heaven is in these lips,

And all is dross that is not Helena !

(b) We'll put on those shall praise your excellence

And set a double varnish on the fame

The Frenchman gave you; bring you, in fine,

together,

And wager o'er your heads: he, being remiss,

Most generous and free from all contriving,

Will not peruse the foils; ...

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Made instruments even of the greatest works.

Beside, we should give somewhat to man's nature,

The place he lives in, still about the fire,

And fume of metals, that intoxicate

The brain of man, and make him prone to passion.

(d) But when it comes to business, to the life

that she really leads as distinguished from

the life of dreams and fancies, she likes

Freddy and she likes the Colonel; and she

does not like Higgins and Mr. Doolittle.

Galatea never does quite like Pygmalion: his

relation to her is too godlike to be altogether

agreeable.

(e) Why, why, why, why do we let these women

bleed us to death ? Have you ever had a

letter, and on it is franked 'Please Give

Your Blood Generously' ? Well, the

Postmaster-General does that, on behalf of

all the women of the world ... There aren't

any good, brave causes left ... No, there's

nothing left for it, me boy, but to let yourself

be butchered by the women.

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2. Discuss the features of revenge tragedy in

Elizabethan England. (450 words) 20

How is a Romantic comedy different from a

comedy of humours ? (450 words)

3. Bring out the nature of tragic conflict of Faustus.

(450 words) 20

The tragedy of Hamlet is the tragedy of

irresolution and inaction. Do you agree with the

assessment ? (450 words)

4. What role does Subtle play in Ben Jonson's The

Alchemist ? (450 words) 20

Dreams play an important role in A Midsummer

Night's Dream. Discuss with reference to the

play. (450 words)

5. The Playboy of the Western World is neither

a comedy nor a tragedy. Discuss critically.

(450 words) 20

What is your understanding of the concept of the

"angry young man" and its implications in the

context of Look Back in Anger ? (450 words)

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6. What is so commendable about the structure of

Waiting for Godot ? Illustrate with reference to

the text. (450 words) 20

Attempt a feminist reading of the chorus in

Murder in the Cathedral. (450 words)

7. Write short notes on any two of the

following : 2x10=20

(a) Use of myth in Pygmalion

(b) The agony of Dr. Faustus

(d) Lucky in Waiting For Godot

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Time : 3 hours Maximum Marks : 100

Note : Answer question no. 1, which is compulsory and

any four from the remaining questions. All

questions carry equal marks.

1. Annotate any four of the following passages with

reference to the context, in not more than

150 words each : 4x5=20

(a) 0, my offence is rank, it smells to heaven,

It hath the primal eldest curse upon't,

A brother's murder !

(b) When I behold the heavens, then I repent,

And curse thee, wicked Mephistophilis,

Because thou halt depriv'd me of those joys.

I should woo in scorn ?

Scorn and derision never come in tears.

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(d) I hit a blow on the ridge of his skull, laid him

stretched out, and he split to the knob of his

gullet.

(e) Was not all the knowledge

Of the Egyptians writ in mystic symbols ?

Speak not the Scriptures oft in parables ?

2. Discuss the aspects of Jacobean society reflected

in Jonson's plays. 20

Discuss The Alchemist as a satirical comedy.

3. Critically examine Dr. Faustus as a Renaissance

Tragedy. 20

Discuss the role played by the Mechanicsls,

especially Bottom, in A Midsummer Night's

Dream.

4. Examine Hamlet as a revenge play. 20

Discuss Hamlet as a Shakespearean tragic hero.

5. Do you think Shaw's Pygmalion is critical of

social snobbery and class distinctions ? Give a

reasoned answer. 20

Examine The Playboy of the Western World as a

folk play.

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6. What changes do Pozzo and Lucky undergo in the

course of Waiting for Godot ? 20

What is the significance of the fourth temptation

in Murder in the Cathedral ?

7. Write short notes on any two of the

following : (200 words each) 2x10=20

(a) Freddy

(b) Estragon

(d) Ophelia

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" 1 9 64 December, 2016

MEG-2 : BRITISH DRAMA

Time : 3 hours Maximum Marks : 100

Note : Answer question no. 1, which is compulsory and

any four from the remaining questions. All

questions carry equal marks.

1. Annotate any four of the following passages with

reference to the context, in not more than

150 words each : 4x5=20

(a) List, list, 0 list !

If thou didst ever thy

dear father love ...

Revenge his foul and most

unnatural murder ...

(b) I keep looking back, as far as

I remember, and I can't think

What it was to feel young,

really young.

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what it is to act or suffer

They know and do not know,

that action is suffering

And suffering is action.

(d) Our youth and strength with

drinking the elixir,

And so enjoy a perpetuity

of life and lust.

(e) Thou traitor, Faustus, I arrest thy soul,

For disobedience to my sovereign Lord.

2. Discuss T.S. Eliot's views on poetic drama. 20

Discuss the basic plot of Romantic Comedy with

reference to A Midsummer Night's Dream.

3. Critically analyze Hamlet's soliloquies in the

play. 20

What is the role played by the swindlers and the

Dupes in The Alchemist ?

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4. "Homo, fuge : Whither should I fly ?" Analyze

Dr. Faustus in the context of this statement. 20

Comment on the Titania-Oberon plot in

A Midsummer Night's Dream.

5. What do you understand by the angry young

man' in the context of Look Back in Anger ? 20

What according to Shaw are the social

implications of the different modes of English

speech ?

6. In Waiting for Godot, the irrationality of human

experience is transferred to the stage. Comment. 20

Critically analyze the role of the chorus in

Murder in the Cathedral.

7. Write short notes on any two of the

following (200 words each) : 2x10=20

(a) Bottom

(b) Christy

(d) Time in Waiting for Godot

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June, 2017

MEG-2 : BRITISH DRAMA

Time : 3 hours Maximum Marks : 100

A rote : Answer question no. 1, which is compulsory.

Attempt any four of the remaining questions. All

questions carry equal marks.

1. Critically comment on any four of the following

pal3sages with reference to the context, in not

more than 150 words each : 4x5=20

(a) 0, my offence is rank, it smells to heaven,

It had the primal eldest curse upon't

A brother's murder ! Pray can I not.

':'hough inclination be as sharp as will.

(b) Galatea never does quite like Pygmalion :

relation to her is too godlike to be

alt( )gether agreeable.

Away with such fancies and despair;

Despair in God, and trust in Beelzebub ...

Abjure this magic, turn to God again.

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(d) Astride of a grave and a difficult birth.

Down in the hole, lingeringly, the

gravedigger puts on the forceps. We have

time to grow old. The air is full of our

cries. But habit is a great deadener.

(e) Thou speak'st aright

I am the merry wanderer of the night.

I jest to Oberon, and make him smile

When I a fat and bean-fed horse beguile,

Neighing in likeness of a filly foal

And sometimes lurk I in a gossip's bowl.

2. Discuss The Alchemist as a comedy of character

and event. 20

Examine Doctor Faustus as a tragedy of neu rosis

and relate it to the predicament of contemporary

man.

3. Critically examine the role of the chorus in Eliot's

Murder in the Cathedral. 20

Critically examine the significance of dreams in

A Midsummer Night's Dream.

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4. Discuss Hamlet as a revenge tragedy. 20

Discuss The Playboy of the Western World as a

bildungsroman that portrays the development of

the central character.

5. "Pygmalion hinges on the contrast of characters."

Critically comment. 20

"Beckett rejects the received logic of form and

conventional structure." Critically comment.

6. Discuss the Romantic and Modernist conceptions

of character in the presentation of Jimmy as the

play's protagonist. 20

Discuss the formulation of Elizabethan tragedy

with reference to the prescribed plays.

7. Write short notes on any two of the

following in not more than 200 words each : 2x10=20

(a) Hamlet's Soliloquies

(b) Romantic Comedy

(d) The concept of character in modern drama

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Term-End Examination

06401 December, 2017

MEG-2 : BRITISH DRAMA

Time : 3 hours Maximum Marks : 100

Note : Answer question no. 1, which is compulsory.

Attempt any four of the remaining questions. All

questions carry equal marks.

1. Critically comment on any four of the following

passages with reference to the context, in not

more than 150 words each : 4x5=20

(a) But you have no idea how frightfully

interesting it is to take a human being and

change her into a quite different human being

by creating a new speech for her.

(b) ... the spring, the summer,

The childing autumn, angry winter, change

Their wonted liveries, and the mazed world,

By their increase, now knows not

which is which.

And this same progeny of evils comes

From our debate, from our dissension;

We are the parents and original.

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Thaw and resolve itself into a dew !

Or that the Everlasting had not fix'd

His canon `gainst self-slaughter !

(d) Why then, belike we must sin, and so

consequently die.

Ay, we must die an everlasting death.

What doctrine call you this, Che sera, sera,

"What will be shall be" ? Divinity, adieu !

(e) They know and do not know, what is it to

act or suffer

They know and do not know that action

is suffering

And suffering is action.

2. "The issues with which he chose to deal were

among the most deeply ingrained preoccupations

of his age." Discuss with reference to Ben

Jonson's The Alchemist. 20

Tragic irresolution is the dramatic strength of

Doctor Faustus. Discuss.

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3. Critically comment on Eliot's Christian

perspective with reference to Murder in the

Cathedral. 20

Discuss A Midsummer Night's Dream as a

romantic comedy.

4. Discuss the play-within-the-play and metaphors

of theatre with reference to the plot of Hamlet. 20

Discuss the role of J.M. Synge in the Irish

Dramatic Movement with special reference to The

Playboy of the Western World.

5. Discuss Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot as an

existentialist play. 20

Was Shaw a romantic ? Is the element of romance

in Pygmalion in harmony with the ideology of

Bernard Shaw.

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6. Characters in Look Back in Anger are enmeshed

in class and gender issues. Discuss. 20

Examine the concept of the hero in modern drama

with reference to the prescribed plays.

7. Write short notes on any two of the

following in not more than 200 words each : 2x10=20

(a) The Theatre of the Absurd

(b) Claudius

(d) Mephistophilis

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June, 2018 16676

MEG-2 : BRITISH. DRAMA

Time : 3 hours Maximum Marks : 100

Note : Answer question no. 1, which is compulsory.

Attempt any four from the remaining questions. All

questions carry equal marks.

1. Critically comment on any four of the following

passages with reference to the context, in not

more than 150 words each : 4x5=20

(a) Have you no modesty, no maiden shame,

No touch of bashfulness ? What, will you

tear. Impatient answers from my gentle

tongue ?

(b) 'Tis the secret

Of nature naturized 'gainst all infections,

Cures all diseases coming of all causes;

A month's grief in a day; a year's in twelve;

tales.

(d) But, you see, I was the only one who cared.

His family were embarrassed by the whole

business. Embarrassed and irritated.

(e) Suppose we repented "Our being born".

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2. What aspects of Jacobean society are depicted in

Ben Jonson's The Alchemist ? 20

Critically analyze Dr. Faustus as a Renaissance

tragedy.

3. Discuss the theme of martyrdom in Murder in the

Cathedral. 20

Analyze Shakespeare's treatment of women in

A Midsummer Night's Dream.

4. Revenge is the central theme of Hamlet. Discuss. 20

Discuss the farcical elements in The Playboy of

the Western World.

5. What are the social implications of the different

modes of English speech ? Answer with reference

to Shaw's Pygmalion. 20

Critically analyze Lucky's speech in Waiting for

Godot.

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6. Discuss Look Back in Anger in the context of the

angry young man'. . 20

What do you understand by the 'modernity' of

Elizabethan tragedy ?

7. Write short notes on any two of the

following in not more than 200 words each : 2x10=20

(a) Hermia

(b) Eliot's 'The Three Voices of Poetry'

(d) Horatio

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D 1. S? 1. December, 2018

MEG-2 : BRITISH DRAMA

Time : 3 hours Maximum Marks : 100

Note : Answer question no. 1, which is compulsory and

any four from the remaining questions. All

questions carry equal marks.

1. Critically comment on any four of the following

passages with reference to the context, in not

more than 150 words each : 4x5=20

(a) To die, to sleep;

To sleep : perchance to dream :

ay, there's the rub.

(b) Homo fuge! Whither should I fly ?

If unto God, he'll throw me down to hell.

MEG-2 1 P.T.O.

everywhere, just waiting for rather mad,

slightly satanic and very timid little

animals. Right ?

(d) They know and not know,

what it is to act or suffer

They know and not know, that

action is suffering

And suffering is action.

(e) 0, good sir!

There must be a world of ceremonies pass,

you must be bathed, and fumigated, first;

2. Discuss the illusion of reality with regard to

alchemy as the central motif in The Alchemist. 20

Dr. Faustus attempts to depart from a comedy of

evil to become a tragedy of human heroism. Do

you agree ? Give a reasoned answer.

MEG-2 2

3. Comment on the significance of the fourth

temptation in Murder in the Cathedral. 20

How does Shakespeare alter the romantic comedy

formula in A Midsummer Night's Dream ?

4. "Claudius rather than Hamlet is the protagonist

of the play." Do you agree ? 20

"The Playboy of the Western World is a play about

the instinctive desire to rebel against tradition."

Discuss.

5. Analyse the comic conventions in Pygmalion. 20

Comment on the structure of Waiting for Godot.

6. What is the significance of the title of the play

Look Back in Anger ? 20

Critically examine the role of the Renaissance in

the growth of Elizabethan drama.

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7. Write short notes on any two of the

following in not more than 200 words each : 2x10=20

(a) Morality Play

(b) Mephistophilis

(d) Colonel Pickering

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Term-End Examination

•-`14 F t

June, 2019

MEG-2 : BRITISH DRAMA

Time : 3 hours Maximum Marks : 100

Note : Answer question no. 1, which is compulsory and

any four from the remaining questions. All

questions carry equal marks.

1. Critically comment on any four of the following

passages with reference to the context, in not

more than 150 words each : 4x5=20

(a) To be, or not to be : That is the question —

Whether %is nobler in the mind to suffer

The slings and arrows of outrageous

fortune,

Or to take up against a sea of

troubles,

And, by opposing, end them ? To die, to

sleep —

No more ...

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(b) But you have no idea how frightfully

interesting it is to take a human being and

change her into a quite different human being

by creating a new speech for her. It's filling up

the deepest gulf that separates class from class

and soul from soul.

In one self-place; for where we are is hell,

And where hell is, there must we ever be :

(d) Have you not done tormenting me with your

accursed time ! ... One day, is that not enough

for you, one day he went dumb ... one day we

are born, one day we shall die, the same day,

the same second ...

(e) If we shadows have offended,

Think but this, and all is mended,

That you have but slumbered here

'While these visions did appear.

And this weak and idle theme,

No more yielding but a dream,

Gentles, do not reprehend;

If you pardon, we will mend :

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2. Ben Jonson's The Alchemist attempts to capture

the spirit of his age. Comment. 20

Discuss Dr. Faustus as a tragedy.

3. Examine critically the idea of martyrdom in

Eliot's Murder in the Cathedral. 20

"Celebrating love within the institution of

marriage." Is it an apt description of

A Midsummer Night's Dream ? Discuss.

4. Discuss Hamlet as a revenge play. 20

"The Playboy of the Western World is a play about

rebellion. Comment.

5. Critically comment on the character of Eliza in

Pygmalion. 20

Discuss Waiting for Godot as a play that presents

the existentialist crisis of modem man.

MEG-2 3 P.T.O.

6. Gender and class conflict are central to Look Back

in Anger. Discuss. 20

Elizabethan tragedy focuses on character, not

circumstance. Comment.

7. Write short notes on any two of the

following in not more than 200 words each : 2x10=20

(a) The Split Personality of Doctor Faustus

(b) Experimentation in Modern Drama

(d) Comic Spirit in Modern Drama

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-72971 Term-End Examination

December, 2019

MEG-2 : BRITISH DRAMA

Time : 3 hours Maximum Marks : 100

Note : Answer question no. 1, which is compulsory and

attempt any four from the remaining questions. All

questions carry equal marks.

1.. Critically comment on any four of the following

passages, with reference to the context, in about

150 words each : 4x5=20

(a) 0 that this too, too solid flesh would melt,

Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew,

Or that the Everlasting had not fix'd

His canon 'gainst self-slaughter !

(b) I shall make a duchess of this

draggle-tailed guttersnipe.

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Canst thou not be sav'd ?

Despair in God, and trust in Beelzebub.

Now go not backward, Faustus; be resolute :

Why waverest thou ?

(d) They know and do not know, what it is to

act or suffer.

They know and do not know, that action is

suffering

And suffering is action. Neither does the

actor suffer

Nor the patient act. But both are fixed ...

(e) Will you believe antiquity ? Records ?

I'll shew you a book, where Moses and his

sister,

And Solomon have written of the art;

Ay, and a treatise penn'd by Adam —

2. Discuss the differences between Shakespearean

comedy and Jonsonian comedy with reference to

the prescribed plays in your course. 20

Critically examine Doctor Faustus as a tragedy of

human heroism.

3. Discuss the notions of martyrdom and temptation

with reference to modern times in Eliot's Murder

in the Cathedral. 20

Comment on the use of the play within the play

in A Midsummer Night's Dream.

4. Discuss the significance of Hamlet's soliloquies

with reference to the soul-searching he

undergoes. 20

The Playboy of the Western World illustrates the

changed concept of comedy in the modern world.

Discuss.

5. Pygmalion examines class and gender difference

in a comic perspective. Critically comment. 20

Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot presents

before us the existentialist crisis of modern man.

Comment.

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6. Critically examine the concept of the angry young

man with reference to the character of Jimmy in

Look Back in Anger. 20

Examine the concept of tragic flaw with reference

to Elizabethan tragedy.

7. Write short notes on any two of the

following in about 200 words each : 2x10=20

(a) Laertes-Hamlet Clash

(b) Renaissance Comedy

(d) Poetic Drama

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Term-End Examination

MEG-02 : BRITISH DRAMA

Time : 3 Hours] [Maximum : Marks : 100

Note: Answer question no. 1 which is compulsory.

Answer any four from the remaining questions.

All questions carry equal marks.

1. Critically comment on any four of the following

passages with reference to the context, in not

more than 150 words each: 4X5=20

) 'Tis now the very witching time of night,

When churchyards yawn and hell

Itself breathes out contagion to this world.

Now could I drink hot blood, and do

Such bitter business as the bitter day

Would quake to look on

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(b) Now, Faustus, must

Thou needs be damned and canst thou not

be saved

Despair in God, and trust in Belzebub:

Now go not backward : no, Faustus be

resolute.

days running a sweet-stall, I may write a book

about us all It'll be recollected in fire and

blood. My blood.

(d) We have only to conquer

Now, by suffering. This is the easier victory.

Now is the triumph of the cross.

(e) Women upset everything. When you let them

into your life, you find that the woman is

driving at one thing and you're driving at

another.

2. The Alchemist is a satire on human follies and

foibles. Discuss. 20

Examine Doctor Faustus as a tragedy of the

aspirational Renaissance man.

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Comment on the nature of the four temptations

that Beckett confronts.

The Mechanicals' play is inextricably related to

the main plot of A Midsummer Night's Dream.

Illustrate.

4. How do Hamlet's soliloquies contribute to the

play? 20

Discuss The Playboy of the Western World as

an extravagant comedy.

5. Critically comment on the verbal comedy in

Pygmalion.

Discuss the salient features of Elizabethan

tragedy with examples.

6. How do the characters in Look Back in Anger

function as sites for a discussion of class and

gender issues?

Discuss Waiting for Godot as an Absurd play.

MEG-02/ 5700 (3 ) P.T.O.

Write short notes on any two of the following in

about 200 words each. 2x10=20

(a) Religious beginning of Elizabethan drama

(b) The theatre of the Absurd

Night Dream.

(d) Characterization in the comedy of Humours.

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