2015
(November)
ENGLISH
(Major)
Course: 501
(Reading Drama)
Full Marks: 80
Pass Marks: 32
Time: 3 hours
The figures in the margin indicate full marks for the questions
1. Answer any eight of the following: 1x8=8
- From where does Shaw take the title of the play, Pygmalion?
- Who is Clara in Shaw’s play, Pygmalion?
- Who has translated the French play, En attendant Godot into English?
- Who is the dramatist of the play, The Silver Box?
- Who has authored the play, The Spanish Tragedy?
- Out of the three dramatists, Robert Greene, John Lily, William Shakespeare, who is not considered as one of the University Wits?
- Who, out of these three, William Congreve, George Peele, Christopher Marlowe, is a Restoration dramatist?
- With what purpose Pozzo was going to the market withy Lucky in Act – I of Waiting for Godot?
- From which Shakespearean tragedy is Ophelia a character?
- Name the dramatist of The Madras House.
UNIT – I
2. Answer any one of the following: 12
- Write an illustrative note on the contribution of University Wits to Elizabethan drama.
- Prepare a critical note on Shakespeare’s Romantic comedy.
- Prepare a note on the Restoration comedy with special reference to Congreve, Wycherley and Etherege.
- Discuss George Bernard Shaw as the pioneer of modern English drama.
UNIT – II
3. Answer any one of the following: 12
- Discuss how the concept of ‘Regeneration through suffering’ is treated in the play, King Lear.
- Discuss the features of Shakespearean tragedy with special reference to King Lear.
- Critically evaluate the dramatic significance of the Gloucester-Edgar subplot in the play, King Lear.
UNIT – III
4. Answer any one of the following: 12
- Present a critical evaluation of the character of Henry Higgins in the play, Pygmalion.
- Evaluate the theme of appearance and reality as treated in the play, Pygmalion.
- Do you consider Shaw’s Pygmalion as a Romantic play or a problem play? Substantiate your answer with reasoned arguments.
UNIT – IV
5. Answer any one of the following: 12
- Assess Beckett’s Waiting for Godot as an absurd play?
- Discuss how a passive action like waiting is dramatized in the play, waiting for Godot.
- Critically evaluate the themes of purposelessness and meaninglessness of life as treated in the play, Waiting for Godot.
UNIT – V
6. Answer any four of the following: 6x4=24
- Prepare a brief assessment of the character of Edmund in King Lear.
- Present a brief discussion on the dramatic significance of the heath scene in King Lear.
- Evaluate Freddy Eynsford Hill as a Romantic hero.
- Present a brief character sketch of Alfred Doolittle.
- Discuss the dramatic significance of Godot in Waiting for Godot.
- Present a brief note on the dramatic significance of Lucky.
- Explain the following with reference to the context:
Liza: I sold flowers. I didn’t sell myself. Now you’ve made a lady of me I’m not fit to sell anything else. I wish you’d left me where you found me.
- Explain the following:
Estragon: We are happy. What do we do now, now that we are happy?
Vladimir: Wait for Godot. Things have changed here since yesterday.
Estragon: And if he doesn’t come?
Vladimir: We will see when the time comes. I was saying that things have changed here since yesterday.
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