M.A-M.A English 1st Year SHAKESPEARE(Acharya Nagarjuna University (ANU), Guntur, Andhra Pradesh-2012)
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First Year
English
Paper II — SHAKESPEARE
Time : Three hours Maximum : 100 marks
Question No. 1 is Unit I is Compulsory
Answer any TWO questions from Unit II and TWO questions from UNIT III.
All questions carry equal marks.
UNIT I
1. Annotate any FOUR of the following : (4 × 5 = 20)
(a) And let men say we be men of good Government being governed, as the sea is, by our
noble and chaste mistress the moon, under whose countenance - we steal.
(b) Tell me, sweet lord, what is’t that takes from thee thy stomach, pleasure and thy golden
sleep?
(c) … you have deceived our trust,
And made us doff our easy robes of peace,
To crush our old limbs in ungentle steel.
(d) When that this body did contain a spirit,
A kingdom for it was too small a bound.
(e) I doubt it is no other but the main;
His father’s death and our o’erhasty marriage.
(f) …. mow could I drink hot blood
And do such bitter business as the day
Would quake to look on.
(g) That skull had a tongue in it, and could sing once; how the know jowls it to the ground, as if it were Cain’s jaw-bone, that did the first murder! (h) …. in mine ignorance Your skill shall, like a star i’ the darkest night Stick fieug off indeed.
UNIT II
2. Examine the historical basis of the play Henry IV Part I and point out the historical inaccuracies.
3. ‘Falstaff is a complete pragmatist, weighing everything by its contribution to the one object of
his life which is to go on boisterously’. Discuss.
4. In hamlet, ‘The poet depicts the immense gap between a sense of duty and its fulfilment’.
Discuss.
5. Consider ‘Hamlet’ as a great tragedy of Shakespeare.
6. Critically comment on the plot construction of a Shakespearean play.
UNIT III
7. Bring out the salient features of a Shakespearean sonnet.
8. Indicate the gentle satire upon the vain and the foolish in Twelfth Night.
9. Critically comment on the characteristics in The Tempest.
10. Write short notes on any FOUR of the following :
(a) Significance of the opening scene in a Shakespearean play.
(b) Character of Prince Henry.
(c) English chronicle play.
(d) Character of Caliban.
(e) Character of Ophelia.
(f) Play within the play in Hamlet.
(g) Clown is Twelfth Night.
(h) Theme of a Shakespearean sonnet.
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