DISTANCE EDUCATION
B.A. (English)/B.A.(English (addl) DEGREE EXAMINATION,
MAY 2016.
ELIZABETHAN LITERATURE
Time Three hours Maximum 100 marks
SECTION A — 8 40 marks)
Answer any FIVE questions.
1. Write briefly on the Civil War during the Elizabethan
Period.
2. What does G.M. Trevelyan say about the happenings in
England during the time of
3. Whose help does Spenser seek in his ''Prologue to Faerie
Why?
4. What thoughts about his friend does Shakespeare
express in ''Sonnet
5. How does Herbert describe the way God bestowed His
gifts on Man?
6. How does Hythloday describe Utopian society?
7. How does Edmund, earl of Kent meet with his death?
8. What makes Jane agree to Marry Hammon in
Shoemaker's holiday''.
Sub. Code
14/102
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SECTION B — × 15 60 marks)
Answer any FOUR questions.
9. How were Various forms of art patronized during the
Elizabethan Age?
10. How does the speaker in Nightingale talk about
'the thorn within him?
11. Summarise the sentiments of Nashe as he expresses
them in "A Litany in the time of Plague"?
12. Critically examine Andrew Marvell's "To his Coy
Mistress'.
13. Critically evaluate Bacon as an essayist.
14. Discuss Isabella and Mortimer's role in the happenings of
the play, Edward II.
15. How does Ben Jonson satirise the follies and greed of
the society of his times in The Alchemist?