Dr Bhim Rao Ambedkar University 2007 M.A British Dra (MEG-02) - Question Paper

March-07 MEG-02 1
Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Open University
Term End exam : March-2007
Master of Art in English (MEG)
British Drama (MEG-02)
Date O Sunday, 08-04-2007 Total Marks O 70
Time O 11-00 to 02-00 Weightage O 70 %
Note :
1. All ques. are compulsory
2. Indicate clearly the choices you attempt.
3. All ques. carry equal marks.
1. Illustrate the ideas in Doctor Faustus that current a meeting point for the
movements of Renaissance and Reformation. [14]
OR
"Hamlet rises above the avg. revenge play and answers to subtler
demands of a great tragedy." Critically respond to this statement.
2. Bring out the note of social realism in Jonsonian Comedy. [14]
OR
explain the use of irony in The Playboy.
3. Was Shaw a romantic? Is the element of romance in Pygmalion in harmony
with the 'ideology' of Bernard Shaw? [14]
OR
Trace the development of Becket's martyrdom in the play Murder in the
Cathedral.
4. explain the way in which Romantic and Modernist conceptions of character
are combined in the presentation of Jimmy as the play's protagonist. [14]
OR
Comment on the tragic, comic and absurdist elements in Waiting for Godot.
5. Write Short Notes on any 2 of the following: [14]
1) The Alchemist as a satire
2) Rhetorical devices in Hamlet.
3) The Dreams in A Midsummer Night's Dream.
4) Marlowe: An ironist.
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