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with all things that delight fife heart of man
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my four and twenty years of liberty I'll
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spend in pleasure and in dalliance.
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thou hast nature in thee, bear it not, let not
the royal bed of Denmark bell Adieu, adieu,
adieu, remember me.
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Estragon : If it hangs you, it will hang
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anything.
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(400 words)
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Discuss romantic exuberance in the comedies of
Shakespeare. (400 words)
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Discuss sin and redemptions in Dr.Faustus.
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Show the importance of man woman relationship 20
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in Look Back In A nger . (400 words)
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The ending in The Playboy of the W estern world is
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not satisfactory. Do you agree ? (400 words)
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W aiting for Godot. (400 words)
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Comment on the use of the device of chums in
Murder in the cathedral. (400 words)
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Term-End Examination
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June, 2011
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MEG-2 : BRITISH DRAMA
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Time : 3 hours Maximum Marks : 100
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Note : Answer Question no. 1, which is compulsory and any
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To sleep : perchance to dream; ay, there is
the rub.
(e) Homo fuge! Within should I fly ?
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If unto God, he'll throw me down to hell'.
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tragedy in Elizabethan drama (400 words)
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Discuss the nature of the four temptations that
Beckett confronts in Murder in the Cathedral (400
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words)
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What is Romantic comedy ? How did
Shakespeare alter the romantic comedy formula
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Analyse the structure of The Alchemist (400 words)
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Anger (400 words)
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difference in Pygmalion ? (400 words)
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Outline the changes that Lucky and Pozzo
undergo during the course of the play Waiting for
Godot (400 words) tG
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7. Write short notes on any two of the following is
not more than 200 words each : 2x10=20
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MASTER'S DEGREE PROGRAMME IN
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Term-End Examination
June, 2012
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MEG-2 : BRITISH DRAMA
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damned souls !
Why wert thou not a
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Whether 'tis nobler in the
mind to suffer
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The Slings and arrows of
outrageous fortune,
Or to take up arms against
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a sea of troubles,
And by opposing , end them.
To die , to sleep -
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(c) What a miracle she is ? Set
all the eyes
Of court a - fire , like a burning glass,
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upon a gallant orphan cleft
his father with one blow to the
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breeches belt.
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when I'm not - watching
and wanting you . I've got
to hit out somehow . Nearly
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four years of being in the
same room with you , night
and day , and I still
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can't stop my sweat break -
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2. Discuss critically the modernity of Elizabethan 20
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How did Shakespeare alter the Romantic
Comedy formula in A Midsummer Night's
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OR
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It is through Subtle that Ben Jonson has exposed
and satirized the cheats and swindlers who
flourished in his age. ( 400 words )
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4. Bring out the full significance of the play within 20
play in Hamlet. (400 words)
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Make a critical assessment of Jimmy - Alison
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relationship in Look Back In Anger.
(400 words)
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(400 words)
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Is Shaw's Verbal humour only funny, or is it also
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(b) Renaissance spirit in Elizabethan comedy
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(c) Lucky in waiting for Godot
(d) Helen in Dr. Faustus
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Term-End Examination
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MEG-2 : BRITISH DRAMA
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A local habitation and name.
(b) Give me that man
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As I do thee--
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Of a new shop, and it like your worship;
just,
At corner of a street.
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(Here's the plot on't)
And I would know by art,
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sir, of your worship,
Which way I should make my door, by
neeromancy,
And, where my selves. And, which
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should be for boxes.
And, which for pots.
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(d) I rage and shout my head off, and every one
thinks = poor chap!" or = What an
objectionable young man?" But that girl
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having.
Estragon : Unforgettable
Vladimir : And it's not over.
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OR
Bring out the role of the fairies in A Mid Summer
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Night's Dream. (400 words)
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strains in Dr. Faustus. (400 words)
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The tragedy of Hamlet is the tragedy of a man
obsessed with melancholy. Examine it critically.
(400 words) tG
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4. What makes the Alchemist so popular among 20
theatre groups both in the Elizabethan and the
Modern age. (400 words)
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Examine the playboy of the Western world as an
extravagant comedy and bildungsroman.
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(400 words)
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Bring out the element of misogyny in Look Back In
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romance in. the play in harmony with the
ideology of Pygmalion ? (400 words)
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Discuss, the unity of time, place and action in
Elizabethan comedy. (400 words)
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7. Write short notes on any two of the following
in not more than 200 words each : 2x10=20
(a)
(b)
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Horatio in Hamlet
Significance of dream. A Midsummer Night's
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Dream.
(c) The Angry young men
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Term-End Examination
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MEG-2 : BRITISH DRAMA
Time : 3 hours Maximum Marks : 100
Note : Answer Question No. 1, which is compulsory and any
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1. Annotate any four of the following passages with
reference to context in not more than 150 words
4x5=20
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each :
(a) Her lips suck forth my soul:
See where it flies !
Come, Helen, come, give me
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my soul again.
(b) Your vows to her and me,
put in two scales,
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from Ormus,
That shall yield him such a
commodity
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bear it not,
Let not the royal bed of
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Denmark bell
Adien, adien, adien, remember me.
(e) Nearly four years of being in the same room
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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.
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Discuss the main features of Elizabethan tragedy. 20
en
(400 words)
OR
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How does Jonson produce the illusion of reality
with respect to alchemy ? (400 words)
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in Pygmalion ? (400 words)
OR
Comment on the title, The Playboy of the Western
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World. (400 words)
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(400 words)
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Comment on Becket's silence after the fourth
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temptation in Murder in the Cathedral.
(400 words)
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7. Write short notes on any two of the following
(200 words each) 2x10=20
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Term-End Examination
December, 2013
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MEG-2 : BRITISH DRAMA
Time : 3 hours Maximum Marks : 100
Note : Answer Question No. 1, which is compulsory, and any
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to heaven go.
(b) Helen, whose beauty caused
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Speak not the scripture oft
in parallels ?
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(e) " and I not knowing at all there was
the like of you drawing nearer, like the stars
of God."
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2. Examine the role of the Renaissance in the growth 20
of Elizabethan drama (400 words)
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Analyse the basic plot of romantic comedy
(400 words).
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What aspects of Jacobean society have been
depicted in Jonson's The Alchemist ? (400 words).
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What is the role played by the Chorus in Murder
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in the Cathedral ? (400 words)
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(200 words each) 2x10=20
(a) Lucky
(b) Miracle Plays
(c) Pegeen
(d) Prick
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Term-End Examination
June, 2014
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MEG-02 : BRITISH DRAMA
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Note : Answer Question no. 1, which is compulsory and any four
from the remaining questions. All questions carry equal marks.
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Critically comment on any four of the following 4x5=20
passages with reference to context, in not more
than 150 words each:
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scorn?
Scorn and derision never come in tears.
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The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
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And by opposing, end them.
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(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
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of you and the like of me.
OR.
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Renaissance tragedy.
NO
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Discuss.
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OR.
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of the play A Midsummer Night's Dream?
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Discuss 'Hamlet' as a tragedy. 20
OR.
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Discuss The Play boy of the Western World
as a folk play.
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OR.
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Back in Anger? Explain.
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OR.
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in the growth of the Elizabethan Drama.
7. ntG
Write short notes on any two of the following 2x10=20
in not more than 200 words each:
(a) Claudius.
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(b) Bottom
(c) Eliza
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December, 2014
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MEG-2 : BRITISH DRAMA
of his gullet.
(b) Have you not done tormenting me with
your accursed time ! ... One day, is that not
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(c) 0 God,
If thou wilt not have mercy on my soul
Yet, for Christ's sake, whose blood hath
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ransom'd me
Impose some end to my incessant pain.
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Calls virtue hypocrite, takes off the rose
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From the fair forehead of innocent love
And sets the blister there.
(e) You do advance your cunning more and more.
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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
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as dramatic poetry.
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What are the common points between the main
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OR
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Discuss Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot as an
Existentialist play.
6. Give a brief character-sketch of Jimmy in
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Osborne's Look Back in Anger. 20
OR
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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
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(a) Beatrice
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(b) Subtle
(c) Higgins
(d) Eliot's views on Poetic Drama
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when all sorts is bringing me their food
and clothing (he swaggers to the door,
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tightening his belt), the way they'd set
their eyes upon a gallant orphan cleft his
father with one blow to the breeches belt.
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(d) It is not in time that my death shall be known;
It is out of time that my decision is taken
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If you call that a decision
To which my whole being gives entire consent.
I give my life
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To the law of God above the law of Man.
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(e) But, you see, I was the only one who cared. His
family were embarrassed by the whole business.
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Reformation strain in Elizabethan tragedy.
(450 words) 20
.co
OR
What is the basic plot of Romantic Comedy ? Why
does it end in feasting and dancing ? (450 words)
uru
3. Bring out the enormous significance of the
soliloquies in Hamlet. (450 words) 20
ntG
OR
Discuss The Alchemist as a classical tragedy in
which unities of time, place and action are strictly
followed. (450 words)
e
nm
OR
Examine The Playboy of the Western World as an
extravagant comedy and bildungsroman.
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(450 words)
UA
OR
How is Pygmalion, an early 20th century play set
in England meaningful to you in India at the end
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Cathedral ? (450 words) 20
OR
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Discuss the gender issues in A Midsummer
Night's Dream. List the many instances of
Shakespeare's sympathy for women in the play.
uru
(450 words)
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(c) The children of perdition are, oft-times
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Beside, we should give somewhat to man's nature,
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And fume of metals, that intoxicate
(d)
ntG
But when it comes to business, to the life
that she really leads as distinguished from
the life of dreams and fancies, she likes
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Freddy and she likes the Colonel; and she
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Elizabethan England. (450 words) 20
OR
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How is a Romantic comedy different from a
comedy of humours ? (450 words)
uru
3. Bring out the nature of tragic conflict of Faustus.
(450 words) 20
ntG
OR
The tragedy of Hamlet is the tragedy of
irresolution and inaction. Do you agree with the
assessment ? (450 words)
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nm
(450 words) 20
OR
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6. What is so commendable about the structure of
Waiting for Godot ? Illustrate with reference to
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the text. (450 words) 20
OR
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Murder in the Cathedral. (450 words)
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June, 2016
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gullet.
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Of the Egyptians writ in mystic symbols ?
Speak not the Scriptures oft in parables ?
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in Jonson's plays. 20
OR
ntG
Discuss The Alchemist as a satirical comedy.
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20
OR
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What is the significance of the fourth temptation
in Murder in the Cathedral ?
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7. Write short notes on any two of the
following : (200 words each) 2x10=20
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tG
Note : Answer question no. 1, which is compulsory and
any four from the remaining questions. All
questions carry equal marks.
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1. Annotate any four of the following passages with
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really young.
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what it is to act or suffer
They know and do not know,
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that action is suffering
And suffering is action.
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(d) Our youth and strength with
drinking the elixir,
And so enjoy a perpetuity
tG
of life and lust.
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(e) Thou traitor, Faustus, I arrest thy soul,
For disobedience to my sovereign Lord.
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OR
sig
OR
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Dr. Faustus in the context of this statement. 20
OR
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Comment on the Titania-Oberon plot in
A Midsummer Night's Dream.
uru
5. What do you understand by the angry young
man' in the context of Look Back in Anger ? 20
OR
What according to Shaw are the social
tG
implications of the different modes of English
speech ?
en
6. In Waiting for Godot, the irrationality of human
experience is transferred to the stage. Comment. 20
nm
OR
Critically analyze the role of the chorus in
Murder in the Cathedral.
sig
(a) Bottom
(b) Christy
OU
(c) Osric
(d) Time in Waiting for Godot
IGN
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Term-End Examination
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Or that the Everlasting had not fix'd
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His canon `gainst self-slaughter !
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Ay, we must die an everlasting death.
What doctrine call you this, Che sera, sera,
"What will be shall be" ? Divinity, adieu !
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(e) They know and do not know, what is it to
act or suffer
They know and do not know that action
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is suffering
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OR
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perspective with reference to Murder in the
Cathedral. 20
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OR
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romantic comedy.
ntG
4. Discuss the play-within-the-play and metaphors
of theatre with reference to the plot of Hamlet. 20
OR
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20
OR
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Bernard Shaw.
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in class and gender issues. Discuss. 20
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OR
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with reference to the prescribed plays.
(d) Mephistophilis
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sig
As
OU
IGN
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Term-End Examination
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June, 2018
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MEG-2 : BRITISH. DRAMA
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Time : 3 hours Maximum Marks : 100
Note : Answer question no. 1, which is compulsory.
Attempt any four from the remaining questions. All
ntG
questions carry equal marks.
(d) But, you see, I was the only one who cared.
His family were embarrassed by the whole
business. Embarrassed and irritated.
IGN
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OR
.co
Critically analyze Dr. Faustus as a Renaissance
tragedy.
uru
3. Discuss the theme of martyrdom in Murder in the
Cathedral. 20
OR
ntG
Analyze Shakespeare's treatment of women in
A Midsummer Night's Dream.
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4. Revenge is the central theme of Hamlet. Discuss. 20
nm
OR
OR
Godot.
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OR
.co
What do you understand by the 'modernity' of
Elizabethan tragedy ?
uru
7. Write short notes on any two of the
following in not more than 200 words each : 2x10=20
(a) Hermia
ntG
(b) Eliot's 'The Three Voices of Poetry'
(c) Widow Quin
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(d) Horatio
nm
sig
As
OU
IGN
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MASTER'S DEGREE PROGRAMME IN
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ENGLISH
Term-End Examination
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D 1. S? 1. December, 2018
Time : 3 hours
tG Maximum Marks : 100
en
Note : Answer question no. 1, which is compulsory and
any four from the remaining questions. All
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everywhere, just waiting for rather mad,
.co
slightly satanic and very timid little
animals. Right ?
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(d) They know and not know,
what it is to act or suffer
They know and not know, that
tG
action is suffering
And suffering is action.
en
(e) 0, good sir!
nm
OR
OU
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temptation in Murder in the Cathedral. 20
.co
OR
How does Shakespeare alter the romantic comedy
formula in A Midsummer Night's Dream ?
uru
4. "Claudius rather than Hamlet is the protagonist
of the play." Do you agree ? 20
tG OR
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"The Playboy of the Western World is a play about
the instinctive desire to rebel against tradition."
Discuss.
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OR
Comment on the structure of Waiting for Godot.
As
OR
Critically examine the role of the Renaissance in
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7. Write short notes on any two of the
following in not more than 200 words each : 2x10=20
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(a) Morality Play
(b) Mephistophilis
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(c) Bottom
tG
en
nm
sig
As
OU
IGN
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Term-End Examination
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•- `14 Ft
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ntG Maximum Marks : 100
troubles,
And, by opposing, end them ? To die, to
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sleep —
No more ...
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interesting it is to take a human being and
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change her into a quite different human being
by creating a new speech for her. It's filling up
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and soul from soul.
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the spirit of his age. Comment. 20
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OR
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3. Examine critically the idea of martyrdom in
Eliot's Murder in the Cathedral.
ntG 20
OR
"Celebrating love within the institution of
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marriage." Is it an apt description of
A Midsummer Night's Dream ? Discuss.
nm
OR
"The Playboy of the Western World is a play about
s
rebellion. Comment.
UA
OR
Discuss Waiting for Godot as a play that presents
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in Anger. Discuss. 20
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OR
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circumstance. Comment.
(b)
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Experimentation in Modern Drama
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December, 2019
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(c) Now, Faustus, must thou needs be damn'd ?
Canst thou not be sav'd ?
.co
Despair in God, and trust in Beelzebub.
Now go not backward, Faustus; be resolute :
Why waverest thou ?
uru
(d) They know and do not know, what it is to
act or suffer.
tG
They know and do not know, that action is
suffering
And suffering is action. Neither does the
en
actor suffer
Nor the patient act. But both are fixed ...
nm
OR
human heroism.
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3. Discuss the notions of martyrdom and temptation
with reference to modern times in Eliot's Murder
.co
in the Cathedral. 20
OR
uru
Comment on the use of the play within the play
in A Midsummer Night's Dream.
4.
tG
Discuss the significance of Hamlet's soliloquies
en
with reference to the soul-searching he
undergoes. 20
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OR
OR
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6. Critically examine the concept of the angry young
man with reference to the character of Jimmy in
.co
Look Back in Anger. 20
OR
uru
Examine the concept of tragic flaw with reference
to Elizabethan tragedy.
7.
tG
Write short notes on any two of the
en
following in about 200 words each : 2x10=20
RAF0.2)
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IN ENGLISH
Term-End Examination
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Thou needs be damned and canst thou not
.co
be saved
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resolute.
tG
days running a sweet-stall, I may write a book
about us all It'll be recollected in fire and
en
blood. My blood.
(d) We have only to conquer
nm
another.
2. The Alchemist is a satire on human follies and
OU
foibles. Discuss. 20
OR
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that Beckett confronts.
OR
.co
The Mechanicals' play is inextricably related to
the main plot of A Midsummer Night's Dream.
uru
Illustrate.
OR
OR
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about 200 words each. 2x10=20
.co
(a) Religious beginning of Elizabethan drama
uru
(c) The element of fantasy in A Mid Summer's
Night Dream.
tG
(d) Characterization in the comedy of Humours.
en
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sig
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MASTER’S DEGREE PROGRAMME IN
ENGLISH (MEG)
Term-End Examination
u.c
February, 2021
ur
MEG-2 : BRITISH DRAMA
Time : 3 hours
tG Maximum Marks : 100
en
Note : Answer question no. 1, which is compulsory and
any four from the remaining questions. All
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O God !
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off, it won’t be in aid of the old-fashioned,
grand design. It’ll just be for the Brave
New-nothing-very-much-thank-you.
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(d) Now is my way clear, now is the meaning
plain :
Temptation shall not come in this kind again.
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The last temptation is the greatest treason :
(e)
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To do the right deed for the wrong reason.
Women upset everything. When you let
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them into your life, you find that the woman
is driving at one thing and you’re driving at
another.
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Dream ? Explain.
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theme of revenge in Hamlet. How do the various
characters in the play respond to the issue of
revenge ? 20
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OR
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evolution of the hero. Elaborate.
5.
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Beckett rejects the conventional structure of a
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play to depict the absurd predicament in Waiting
for Godot. Discuss. 20
nm
OR
OR
NO
dramatists.
MEG-2 3 P.T.O.
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following in about 200 words each : 210=20
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(b) Thomas Becket as a Martyr
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(d) The Play-Within-the-Play
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en
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NO
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MEG-2 4
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MASTER’S DEGREE PROGRAMME IN
ENGLISH (MEG)
Term-End Examination
u.c
June, 2021
ur
MEG-02 : BRITISH DRAMA
fortune,
UA
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Because thou hast depriv’d me of those joys.
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Down in the hole, lingeringly, the
grave-digger puts on the forceps. We have
time to grow old. The air is full of our cries.
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But habit is a great deadener.
(e) ... as imagination bodies forth
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The forms of things unknown, the poet’s pen
Turns them to shapes and gives to airy
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nothing.
A local habitation and a name.
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OR
Tragic irresolution is the dramatic strength of
s
OR
Critically comment on Shakespeare’s use of
Romantic Comedy formula in A Midsummer
IG
Night’s Dream.
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abstracting and generalizing habit over the
practical.’’ Discuss with reference to the play as a
revenge tragedy. 20
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extravagant comedy and a dramatic
bildungsroman.
5. ‘‘Unlikely
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conversions, miraculous
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transformations and providential assistance are
inseparable from comedy.’’ Discuss with reference
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to Shaw’s Pygmalion. 20
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following in about 200 words each : 210=20
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(b) Romantic Comedy
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(d) Poetic Drama and Modernism
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NO
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MASTER’S DEGREE PROGRAMME IN
ENGLISH
u.c
Term-End Examination
June, 2022
ur
tG
MEG-02 : BRITISH DRAMA
en
Time : 3 hours Maximum Marks : 100
that ?
MEG-02 1 P.T.O.
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OR
Analyse the structure of The Alchemist. 20
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3. ‘‘To be, or not to be: that is the question.’’
Critically examine Hamlet in light of this
statement. 20
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OR
Discuss the four temptations that Becket
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undergoes in Murder in the Cathedral. 20
OR
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Your minerals, vegetals, and animals,
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Could not relieve your corpse with so
much linen.
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(c) They know and do not know,
tG
what it is to act or suffer
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They know and do not know,
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(a) Bottom
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(c) The Theatre of the Absurd
ur
tG
en
nm
s sig
UA
NO
IG
MEG-02 4
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MASTER OF ENGLISH (MEG)
u.c
Term-End Examination
December, 2022
ur
MEG-02 : BRITISH DRAMA
P. T. O.
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[2] MEG-02
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If had the primal eldest curse upon’t,
A brother’s murder !
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(d) It is not in time that my death shall be known.
ur
If you call that a decision .............
tG
(e) With a bare fricace of your medicine : still
Or
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Or
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[3] MEG-02
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examples to support your answer. 20
Or
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“The Playboy of the Western World is a play
about the distinctive desire to rebel against
ur
tradition.” Do you agree ? Give a reasoned
answer.
tG
5. Can digging effect bring about a transformation
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in Dootille similar to the one he has brought
about in Eliza ? 20
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Or
Or
Elizabethan tragedy.
P. T. O.
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[4] MEG-02
om
about 200 words each : 2×10=20
u.c
(b) Myth in modernist drama
ur
(d) Horatio
tG
en
nm
s sig
UA
NO
IG
MEG–02
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MASTER’S DEGREE PROGRAMME IN
u.c
ENGLISH (MEG)
Term-End Examination
ur
June, 2023
tG
ME G-02 : BRITISH DRAMA
known :
P. T. O.
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[2] ME G-02
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consent
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(b) But, you see, I was the only one who cared
His family were embarrassed by the whole
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business. Embarrassed and irritated ... we
tG
all of us waited for him to die. Every time I
sat on the edge of his will you believe
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antiquity ? Records ?
his sister,
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[3] ME G-02
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brain of man, and make him prone to
passion.
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think but this, and all is mended,
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that you have but slumbered here
tG
while these visions did appear,
Hamlet. 20
NO
P. T. O.
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[4] ME G-02
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Murder in the Cathedral ? 20
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7. Write short notes on any two of the
following : 20
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(a) Gertude in Hamlet
tG
(b) Lucky in Waiting for Godot
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(c) Reformation
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