DISTANCE EDUCATION
M.A. (English) DEGREE EXAMINATION, MAY 2018.
SHAKESPEARE
Time Three hours Maximum 100 marks
PART A — x 8 40 marks)
Answer any FIVE of the following.
1. Discuss the role of Viola in Twelfth Night.
2. Write the importance of Church Scene in Much Ado
About Nothing.
3. Write the Mock Interview between Hal and Falstaff.
4. Discuss the dominant feature of the Play Antony and
Cleopatra.
5. Describe the effect of the Ghost's appearance to Hamlet
in Gertrude's room.
6. How do the clowns behave in Hamlet?
7. Sketch the character of Iago.
8. Write about the various elements of a Masque in
The Tempest.
PART B — × 15 60 marks)
Answer any FOUR questions.
9. Consider Twelfth Night as a Romantic Comedy.
10. Examine the elements of improbability in the play Much
Ado About Nothing.
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11. What is the basic theme of Antony and Celopatra? How
has this theme been expressed in the play?
12. Write an essay on the plot construction in Henry IV,
Part I.
13. Discuss Hamlet as a Revenge Tragedy.
14. Describe the death of Desdemona and Othello.
15. "The Tempest is the theme of forgiveness" Elucidate.