DISTANCE EDUCATION
B.A. (English B.A.(English) Addl. DEGREE EXAMINATION,
MAY 2016.
SHAKESPEARE
Time Three hours Maximum 100 marks
PART A — 8 40 marks)
Answer any FIVE of the following.
1. What are the settings of A Midsummer Night's Dream?
2. Describe the circumstances leading to the banishment of
Bolingbroke and Mowbray.
3. Comment on the death of Gaunt and its consequences.
4. What are the super natural occurrences witnessed by
Casca?
5. Why is Brutus against the murder of Antony?
6. Why does Leontes suspect Hermione and Polixenes?
7. Describe the sheep-shearing feast and its result.
8. Write a paragraph about Elizabethan theatre.
PART B — × 15 60 marks)
Answer any FOUR of the following
9. Describe the fairies in A Midsummer Night's Dream.
10. Discuss A Midsummer Night's Dream as a
Shakespearean comedy.
Sub. Code
31/107
DE-3281
2
wk9
11. Write an essay on Richard II as a historical play.
12. Discuss Julius Caesar as a typical Shakespearean
tragedy.
13. Describe the trial scene in The winter's Tale.
14. Write an essay on the finale or the statue scene in
The winter's Tale.
15. What is A.C. Bradley's contribution to Shakespearean
criticism?