MASTER'S DEGREEPROGRAMMEIN

ENGLISH
Term-End Examination
December, 2OO8
MEG-2: BRITISHDRAMA
Time : 3 hours

MaximumMorks: 700

Note : Answer question number 7, whtch is

compulsory, and any four from the
remaining questions. All questions carrv
equal marks.
1.

Annotate any four of the following passageswith

referenceto the context.in not more than 150 words

4x5:20
(i)

Her lips suck forth

See where it flies!
Come, Helen, come give me
my soul again.
Here will I dwell, for
heaven is in these lips.

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(ii) Thou speakestaright;

I am that merry wanderer of the night.
I jest to Oberon, and make him smile
When I a fat and bean-fed horse beguile,
Neighing in likenessof a filly foal;
(iii) 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 breaking out when I see
you doing - something as ordinary as leaning
over an ironing board.
(iv) What am I fit for ? What have you left me fit
for ? Where am I to go ? What am I to'do ?
What's to become of me ?
(v) My words fly up,
my thoughts remain below:
words without thoughts,
never to heaven go.

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2 . Discuss the comic and the tragic in Elizabethan

drama. (400 words)

20
OR

Discuss the

of time and place in Ben

Jonson'sThe Alchemist. (400 words)
3.

unity

Make a critical studv of the climax in Dr. Foustus.

(400 words)
20
OR
What are the major themes in Hamlet's soliloquies?
How do they contribute to the major thematic
concernsof the play ? (400 words)

4.

Contrast
Shakespeare's
of
the
use
play-within-the-playin Hamlet and A Midsummer
Night's Dream. (400 words)
OR
How is Pygmalion, an early 20th century English
play set in England,meaningfulto you in India at the
end of the millenium ? (400 words)

5.

What is your understandingof the concept of the

"angry young man" and its implication for the play
Look Back In Anger ? (400 words)

OR
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Make a critical evaluation of the theme of

Role-playingin The Playboy of the Western World.
(400 words)
6.

Waiting for Godot is also aboutthe emptinessof the

modern world that does not know that it is empty.
Do you agree with the statement? Discuss.
(400 words\
Z0
OR
DiscussMurder in the Cathedral as a Christianplay.
(400 words)

7.

Write short notes on any troo of the following in not

more than 200 words each :
2x70:20
(i)

Blank verse in tragedy

(ii) Romantic Comedy

(iii) Bottom
(iv) Dark Comedy

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7,000