M.a English Literature
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MASTER'S DEGREE PROGRAMME IN ENGLISH Term-End Examination June, 2012 MEG-2 : BRITISH DRAMA Time : 3 hours Note : Maximum Marks : 100
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Answer Question no. 1, which is compulsory and any four from the remaining questions. All questions carry equal marks.
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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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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. What a miracle she is ? Set 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 : From this out I'll have no want of company when all sorts is bringing me their food and clothing ( he swaggers 2
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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 tragedy. (400 words) OR How did Shakespeare alter the Romantic Comedy formula in A Midsummer Night's Dream ? (400 words) 20
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Dr. Fanstus stands for the Renaissance man ? Is this a
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MASTER'S DEGREE PROGRAMME IN ENGLISH Term-End Examination June, 2012 MEG-2 : BRITISH DRAMA Time : 3 hours Note : Maximum Marks : 100
09931
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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P.T.O.
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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. What a miracle she is ? Set 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 : From this out I'll have no want of company when all sorts is bringing me their food and clothing ( he swaggers 2
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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 tragedy. (400 words) OR How did Shakespeare alter the Romantic Comedy formula in A Midsummer Night's Dream ? (400 words) 20
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3.
Dr. Fanstus stands for the Renaissance man ? Is this a