DISTANCE EDUCATION
B.A. (English)/ B.A. (English) (Addl) 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 moral of the play 'Midsummer Night's
Dream'.
2. Write a short note on the importance of the opening scene
in Richard II.
3. Describe the circumstances leading to the banishment of
Bolingbroke and Mowbray.
4. Why does Calpurina try to prevent Caesar from going to
the Capitor?
5. How does Antony Sway the Roman mob to his side?
6. Why does Leontes suspect Hermione and Polixene?
7. Write briefly on Leontes's reunion with Hermione.
8. Write a paragraph on Shakespeare's theatre.
PART B — x 15 60 marks)
Answer any FOUR of the following.
9. Justify the title Midsummer Night's Dream.
10. "Midsummer Night's Dream is one of Shakespeare's
crowning comedy of love" Comment.
Sub. Code
31/107
DE-3481
2
SER
11. Discuss Shakespeare's Richard II as a historical play.
12. Describe the funeral orations of Brutus and Antony.
13. Comment on the deaths of Cassius and Brutus.
14. Discuss The Winter's Tale as one of Shakespeare's final
plays.
15. Write an essay on Shakespeare's fools and clowns.