CLASS: M.A. ENGLISH LIT.
11N/372
St. JOSEPH’S COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS) TIRUCHIRAPPALLI – 620 002
SEMESTER EXAMINATIONS – NOVEMBER 2011
TIME: 3 Hrs.
MAXIMUM MARKS: 100
SEM
SET
PAPER CODE
TITLE OF THE PAPER
I
2011
10PEN1105
SHAKESPEARE
SECTION – A
Answer any TEN questions in about one or two sentences
each:
10 x 2 = 20
1.
What is the full title of the play Twelfth Night?
2.
Mention the setting (place) of the play Twelfth Night.
3.
What is the major conflict of the play Twelfth Night?
4.
Comment on the setting (place) of the play Othello.
5.
What is the climax of the play Othello?
6.
What are the symbols used in the play Othello?
7.
What are the sources of the play Richard II?
8.
Mention the historical context of the play Richard II.
9.
State whether the play Richard II is a History or Tragedy?
10.
Mention the setting (place) of the play The Merchant of Venice.
11.
What is the major conflict of the play The Merchant of Venice?
12.
Explain the climax of the play The Merchant of Venice.
13.
What is the setting (place) of the play The Tempest?
14.
Explain ‘rising action’ of the play The Tempest.
15.
What are the symbols used in the play The Tempest?
SECTION – B
Answer all the questions:
5 x 8 = 40
Annotate the following passages:
16.
a.
“Give me thy hand,
And let me see thee in thy woman’s weeds”.
OR
17.
b.
“I thank my stars, I am happy, I will be strange, shout, in yellow stockings, and crossgartered, even with the swiftness of putting on. Jove and my stars be praised”.
a.
“My wayward husband hath a hundred times
Wooed me to steal it…..”
OR
b.
“I took by th’ throat the circumcised dog
And smote him thus”.
Write paragraphs on the following in about 200 words each:
18.
a.
Comment on the rise of Machiavellian King in Richard II.
OR
19.
b.
Analyze the medieval political theology, The King’s two bodies, as portrayed in Richard
II.
a.
Analyze the character of Shylock.
OR
20.
b.
Draw the character sketch of Portia.
a.
How
does
The Tempest?
Shakespeare
employ
the
three
unities
in
OR
b.
Comment on Prospero’s Books.
SECTION – C
Write essays on all the questions in about 500 words each:2 x 20 = 40
21.
a.
Critically appreciate Shakespeare’s sonnet 60.
OR
22.
b.
Is the ideal of love described in Sonnet 116 – without which the speaker “never writ, nor
no man ever loved” – constant throughout the sonnet?
a.
How does Shakespeare argue in favour of the divine quality of Mercy?
OR
b.
What type of character is Caliban?
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