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SYLLABUS
DETAILED STUDY :
1. Henry IV Part I
2. Hamlet
NON-DETAILED STUDY :
3. Sonnets
(12, 18, 20, 23, 30, 33, 55, 60, 64, 73, 94, 116, 123, 130 and 144)
4. Twelfth Night
5. Tempest
UNIT 1 : Annotations passages from 1 and 2
UNIT 2 : Essay questions on 1 and 2
UNIT 3 : Essay questions on 3
UNIT 4 : Essay questions on 4 and 5
UNIT 5 : Questions (essay (short notes) on background, genre, etc.

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 C ONTENTS
[Link]. Particulars Page No.
1. Introduction to Shakespeare and His Age 01
2. Back Ground to Elizabethan Drama 23
3. Back Ground to Elizabethan Drama - Continued 27
4. Back Ground to Elizabethan Drama - 30
The nature of tragedy
5. Back Ground to Elizabethan Drama - 34
The nature of tragedy - Continued
6. Introduction to History Plays 38
7. Henry IV - Part - I - An Introduction 41
8. Henry IV - Part - I - An Introduction - Continued 44
9. Character of Falstaff 77
10. Henry IV - Structure of The Play 84
11. Henry - IV - Part - I - An Introductory Summary 87
12. Hamlet - An Introduction 92
13. The Story of Hamlet 138
14. Hamlet - William Shakespeare 146
15. Hamlet - William Shakespeare - Continued 149
16. The Supernatural Element in “Hamlet” 153
17. The Soliloquies in Hamlet 155
18. Shakespeare’s Sonnets - An Introduction 159
19. The Sonnet and Elizabethan Sonneteers 187
20. The Theme of the Sonnets 191
21. Are the Sonnets Autobiographical 196
22. Order, Style and Vision of the Sonnets 199
23. The Tempest - An Introduction 203
24. The Story of The Tempest 232
25. The Tempest - Introduction 236
26. Commentary 243
27. Twelfth Night - An Introduction 247
28. Twelfth Night the Story 278
29. Twelfth Night - The Story - Continued 282
30. Shakespearean Comedy 286

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 c) Is It justificable to say that Prospero is a auto-
MODEL QUESTION PAPER (JUNE 2010) biographical extension ofthe dramatist ? Dis-
M.A. (Previous Degree Examination cuss.
English Language and Literature Or
Paper II : SHAKESPEARE d) Write a critical note on the plot and structure of
Time : Three hours Maximum : 100 Marks The Tempest
All questions carry equal marks. UNIT -V
Question No.1 is compulsory and answer ONE from 5. a) “Shakespeare has only heroines,but no
each question hereoes”. discuss.
Or
1. Annotate any FOUR of the following passages : b) Write a critical essay onthe Elizabethan audi-
a) As the honey of Hybla, my old lad of the cstle. ence.
And is not a buff jerkin a most sweet robe of Or
durance? c) Write short notes on any two of the following
b) Go, hand thyself in thine own heir apparent gar- i) Hamlet’s soliloquies.
ters! If I be taken, I”ll peach of this. ii) Malvolio in Twelfth Night.
c) A thousand pound, Hal! a million : thy love is iii) Caliban in Teh Tempest.
worth a million : thou owest me thy love. iv) Granedigger’s scene in hamlet.
d) O gentleman; the time of life is short ! v) Hotspur in Henry IV Part I.
e) Thu7s was I, sleeping, by a brother’s hand of
life, of crown, of queen, at once dispathced.
(JANUARY 2010)
f) Though this is madners, yet there is method in
Paper II : SHAKESPEARE
it. Will you walk out of the air, my lord?
Time : Three hours Maximum : 100 Marks
g) The body is with the king, but the king is not with
the body. All questions carry equal marks.
The king is a thing - Question No.1 is compulsory and answer ONE from
each question
h) Forty thousand brothers
couldnot, with all their quantity of love,
1. Annotate any FOUR of the following passages :
Make up my sum.
a) As the honey of Hybla, my old lad of the cstle.
UNIT - II
And is not a buff jerkin a most sweet robe of
2. a) Examine Henry IV Part-I as a historical play durance?
Or b) Go, hand thyself in thine own heir apparent gar-
b) Discuss Shakespeare’s art of characterization ters! If I be taken, I”ll peach of this.
in Henry IV Part I. c) A thousand pound, Hal! a million : thy love is
Or worth a million : thou owest me thy love.
c) Write a critical note on the theme of procrastina- d) O gentleman; the time of life is short !
tion in Hamlet. e) Thu7s was I, sleeping, by a brother’s hand of
Or life, of crown, of queen, at once dispathced.
d) Do you consider that Hamlet is an artistic fail- f) Though this is madners, yet there is method in
ure ? Discuss. it. Will you walk out of the air, my lord?
g) The body is with the king, but the king is not with
UNIT- III the body.
3. a) Write a critical note on the “Fair Youth” and the The king is a thing -
“Dark Lady” of the Sonnets of Shakespeare. h) Forty thousand brothers
Or couldnot, with all their quantity of love,
b) How far can the sonnets of Shakespear be con- Make up my sum.
sidered “Criticism of Life”? Discuss. UNIT - II
Or 2. a) Examine Henry IV Part-I as a historical play
c) Show that Shakespeare’s sonnets are a blend Or
of tradition and individual talent.
b) Discuss Shakespeare’s art of characterization
UNIT - IV in Henry IV Part I.
4. a) Examine Twelfth Night as a romantic comedy. Or
Or c) Write a critical note on the theme of procrasti-
b) Bring out a comparative study of the charac- nation in Hamlet.
ters of Olivia and Viola in Twelfth Night. Or
Or

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 d) Do you consider that Hamlet is an artistic fail- to show the line and the predicament
ure ? Discuss. Wherein you range under this subtle Kind.
e) Indeed, this counsellor
UNIT- III It now most still, most secret, and most grave,
3. a) Write a critical note on the “Fair Youth” and the who was in file a foolish prating knave.
“Dark Lady” of the Sonnets of Shakespeare. f) O what portents are these?
Or Some heavy business hath my lord in hand,
b) How far can the sonnets of Shakespear be And I must know it, else he loves me not.
considered “Criticism of Life”? Discuss. g) Rightly to be great
Or Is not to stir without great argument,
c) Show that Shakespeare’s sonnets are a blend But greatly to find quarrel in a straw
of tradition and individual talent. When honour’s at the stake.
UNIT - IV h) Alexander died, Alexander was buried,
4. a) Examine Twelfth Night as a romantic comedy. alexander returnth into dust; the dust is earth;
Or of earth we make loam; and why of that loam
b) Bring out a comparative study of the charac- where to he was converted might they not stop
ters of Olivia and Viola in Twelfth Night. a beer-barred?
Or
c) Is It justificable to say that Prospero is a auto- 2. a) Describe the events at boar’s head Tavern at
biographical extension ofthe dramatist ? Dis- Eastcheap in the Shakespeare an play pre-
cuss. scribed for your study.
Or Or
d) Write a critical note on the plot and structure of b) Sketch the character of Hotspur.
The Tempest Or
UNIT -V c) Write a brief note on the opening scene of the
5. a) “Shakespeare has only heroines,but no play Hamlet.
hereoes”. discuss. Or
Or d) Comment on the roles of Rosncrantz and
b) Write a critical essay onthe Elizabethan audi- Guildenstern in Hamlet.
ence.
Or 3. a) Write note on the music and melody of
c) Write short notes on any two of the following Shakespeare’s sonnets.
i) Hamlet’s soliloquies. Or
ii) Malvolio in Twelfth Night. b) Account for the popularity of Shakespeare’s
iii) Caliban in Teh Tempest. sonnets.
iv) Granedigger’s scene in hamlet. Or
v) Hotspur in Henry IV Part I. c) Write a critical appreciation of sonnet no. 116.

M.A. (Previous) Degree Examination.(JUNE 2009) 4. a) Write a note on songs in Twelfth Night.
English Language and Literature Or
Paper II : SHAKESPEARE b) Sketch the character of Maludio
Time : three hours maximum : 100 Marks Or
Answer Question No.1 and any FOUR others c) What part do the minor characters play in the
Gempest?
All questions carry equal marks.
Or
1. Annotate any FOUR of the following passages :
d) Compare and contrast caliban and Ariel.
a) Come, go we to the king:
This must by known; which, being kept close,
might move 5. a) Write an essay on ‘Elizabethan Stage”.
More grief to hide than hate to utter love. Or
b) For he that brought them in the very heat And b) Make a note on Shakespeare’s Language.
pride of their contention did take horse, Uncer- Or
tain of the issue any way. c) Write a short notes on any TwO of the following
c) Thou hast the most unsavory similes and art :
indeed the most comparative rascallest, sweet i) Supernatural elements in Shakespeare’s
young prince. plays.
d) O Pardon, if that I descend so low, ii) Dark lady in Shakespeare’s sonnets.

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 iii) Elizabethan Chronicle plays. magician to a man governed solely in his actions
iv) Role of Fool in shakespeare’s plays. by parental devotion?
v) The significance of masque in or
Shakespeare’s plays. c) “Twelfth Night makes us laugh at the follies of
mankind, not despise them’ - Comment.
M.A.(Pre) Degree Examination. 2008 Unit V
English Language Literature 5. a)Examine the characteristic reatures of
Paper II SHAKESPEARE Shakespearean comedy.
Time : 3 hours] [Maximum : 100 Marks or
All questions carry equal marks b) Discuss the importance of the soliloquies in
Question No. 1 in Unit I is compulsory and answer Shakespeare’s plays.
ONE question from each Other units. or
Unit - I c) Write short notes on any TWO of the following:
1. Annotate any Four of the following passages : i) fools in Shakespeare’s plays
a) It seems, then, that the tidings of this broil ii) Shakespearean Tragedy
Break off our business for the Holy hands iii) Character of Melvolio
b) Give him as much as will make him a royal iv) The sub plot in The Tempest
man, v) Elizabethan audience.
and send him back again to my mother.
c) Rob me the exchequer the first thing thou M.A.(Pre) Degree Examination. 2007
dost, English Language Literature
and do’nt with unwashd hand too. Paper II SHAKESPEARE
d) The king hath many maskings in his coats. Time : 3 hours] [Maximum : 100 Marks
e) Murder most foul, as in the best it is; All questions carry equal marks
But this most foul, strange and unnatural. Question No. 1 in Unit I is compulsory and answer
f) get thee to a nunnery. why wouldst than be a ONE question from each Other units.
breeder of sinners? Unit - I
g) O heat, dry up my brains! tears seven - times 1. Annotate any Four of the following passages :
salt, a) The king doth wake to - night and takes
Burn out the sense and virtue of nine eye! - his rouse,
h) Here, thou incestuous, murderous, damned Keeps wassail, and swaggering u-spring
reels;
Dane,
And, as he drains his draughts of Rhenish
Drink off this potion :- is try union here?
down,
UNIT II
The triumph of his pledge.
2. a) Examine the character of Hotspuer as a
b) he took me by the wrist and held me hard;
spiritual descendent of the knights errant of
medieval romance. Then goes he to the lenght of all his arm;
or And, with his other hand thus o’er his brow,
b) Bring out a character contrast between Haland He falls to such perusal of my face
Hotspur. As he would draw it.
or c) If by derect or by collateral hand
c) Discuss the theme of procrastination in Hamlet They find us touch’d, we will our kingdom
or give
d) Examine Hamlet as a Revange Tragedy. our crown, Our life, and all that we call ours
UNIT III To you in satisfaction.
3. a) in Shakespeare’s sonnets one can find the d) An earnest conjuration from the king-
“soul’s tragedy of fiery passion and noble As England was his faithful tributary,
thoughts”. Discuss. As love between them like the palm might
b) Evaluate Shakespeare’s cantribution to the flourish
sonnet. As peace should still her wheaten garland
UNIT IV wear
4. a) Sum up Shakespeare’s moral vision as And stand a comma ‘tween their amities.
revealed in The Tempest. e) And like bright metal on a sullen ground,
b) How does Shakespeare depict the change in My reformation glittering o’er my fault, Shll show
Prospero’s character from that of a ruteless more goodly and attract more eyes

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 Shall show more goodly and attract more eyes b) Write a nor on Shakespearean stage and his
Than that which hath no soil to set if off. exploitation of its reatures.
f) Tell me (sweethord) What is’t that takes from or
thee Write short notes on Two of the following:
Thy stomach, thy pleasure, and thy golden i) Role of Gadshill in Henry IV Part I.
sleep? ii) Play within the play.
Why dost thou bend thine eyes upon the iii) The Rival poet in Shakespeare’s sonnets.
earth? iv) Character of Sir Toby Belch.
And start so often when thou sitt’st alone? v) Significance of Epilogue i The Tempest.
Why hast thou lost the fresh blood in thy
cheeks? English Language and Literature(2006)
g) Not an eye Paper -II : SHAKESPEARE
But is a-weary of thy common sight , (Unit System)
Save mine, which hath desir’d to see thee Time : Three hours Maximum : 100 marks
more,
Answer question No. 1 and any FOUR others.
Which nowdoth that I would not have it do,
All questions carry equal marks.
Make blind itself whth foolish tenderness.
h) Fore well you know, we of the offring side
1. Annotate any FOUR of the following passages:
Must keep aloof from strictar bitrament.
(a)Well, for two of them, I know them to be as
And stop all sight-holes, every loop, from
true bred
tolerance
towards as ever turned back ; and for the
The eye of reason may pry in upon us.
third, if he
Unit II
fight longer than he sees reason, I’ll for
2. a) Comment on Shakespeare’s historical
swear arms,
interweaving in Henry IV PartI.
or (b) O, I could divide myself and go to buffets,
for moving
b) Does the play, Henry IV Part I, acquire a real
dramatic unity, or is it just a series of such a dish of skim milk with so honourable
episodes? Explain. an action!
or (c) So when he had occasion to be seen, He was
c) Comment on the “ Local colour” in Hamlet. but as the Cuckoo is in June, Heard, not
regarded ;
d) Trace the motif of delay in Hamlet.
3. a) Comment on the music and melody of
Shakespeare’s sonnerts. (d) A rendezvous, a home to fly unto, If that the devil
and mischance look big Upon the maiden
or
head of our affairs.
b) “ The Sonnets can be interpreted as a
(e) Haste me to know’t, that I with wings a swift As
drama”. Do you agree? Explain.
meditation or the thoughts of love,
or
May sweep to my revenge,
c) write an essay on Shakespeare’s use of
(f) No, my good lord ; but as you did command,
Imagery in his sonnets.
I did repel his letters, and denied
4. a) Comment on songs in Twelfth Night.
His access to me.
or
(g) Get thee to a nunnery. Why wouldst than be a
b) Sketch the character of Maria in Twelfth breeder of sinners?
Night.
(h) Imperious Caesar, dead and turned today,
or Might stop a hole to keep the wind away.
d) Discuss briejly the significance of the 2. (a) Consider Henry IV Part I as a play concerned
recalcitrant attitude of Antonow and Sebastian with the education of a Prince.
for the reconciliation theme in the closing
Or
scene of The Tempest.
(b) ‘Falstaff is our unofficial self? Substantiate.
5. a) “A quibble is to Shakespeare, what
luminous vapours are to the traveller; he Or
follows it at all adventures; it is sure to lead (c) In spite of his division *to put an antic
him out of his way, and sure to engulf him in disposition on’, Hamlet was really mad’.
the mire” (Johnson). Comment on this Discuss.
statement with reference to his plays you have Or
studied. (d) Evaluate Hamlet as a revenge tragedy.
or 3. (a) Examine the major themes of the sonnets of

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 Shakespeare. O, I could wish this tavern were my drum!
Or (e) ........... what is a man
(b) Evaluate the achievement of Tf his chief good and market of his time Be but
Shakespeare as a sonneteer. to sleep and feed ? A beast, no more.
Or (f) If thou didst ever hold me in thy heart, Absent
(c) Critically comment on the thee from felicity awhile.
autobiographical element in the sonnets (g) There’s a divinity that shapes our ends, Rough
of Shakespeare. - hew them how we will.
4. (a) ‘Prospero is controlling not merely a (h) For murder, though it have no tongue, will speak
Shakespearean play, but the with most miraculous organ.
Shakespearean World? Discuss. 2. (a) Comment on Shakespeare’s handling of history
Or in Henrv IV-Part L
(b) Discuss the importance of the role played Or
by Caliban in The Tempest. (b) “Falst&ff as a wiiote i& for greater than the sum
Or of his parts” Discuss.
(c) Critically comment on the subplot Or
Twelfth Night. (c) Is Hamlet a play of feigned madness ?
Or Or
(d) Bring out a comparative study of (d) Consider Hamlet and Claudius as the ‘two
the characters of Olivia and Viola in mighty opposites’ in the play.
Twelfth Night. 3. (a) Trace the autobiographical note in
5. (a) Write a critical essay on the Shakespeare’s sonnets.
Shakespearean theatre. Or
Or (b) Evaluate Shakespeare’s place as a Sonneteer
(b) ‘Shakespeare’s tragedy seems to be in Elizabethan poetry.
skill, his comedy to be instinct* - Or
Examine.
(c) ‘Love is not Time’s Fool’. How is this theme
Or presented in Shakespeare’s sonnets ?
(c) Write short notes on any TWO of 4. (a) Discuss Twelfth Nieht as a romantic comedy.
the following :
Or
(i) Soliloquies of Hamlet
(b) Write a critical note on appearance and reality
(ii) Historical play as a theme in Twelfth Nisht.
(iii) Shakespeare’s clowns Or
(iv) Ariel in The Tempest (c) T race the theme of forgiveness and
(v) Grave diggers scene in Hamlet. reconciliation in the Tempest.
Or
M.A. (PREVIOUS)DEGREE EXAMINATION (d) “The Tempest reflects Shakespeare s
(2005) mature philosophy of life”. Discuss.
English Language and Literature 5. (a) Write an essay on the world of Shakespeare’s
Paper II : SHAKESPEARE comedies.
(Unit System) Or
Time : Three Hours Max. Marks : 100 (b) Bring out the significance of the role played by
Answer question No.l and any four others. ‘fool’ in Shakespeare’s plays.
All questions carry equal marks. (c) Write short notes on two of the following :-
1. Annotate any four of the following passages :- (i) Elizabethan revenge tragedy,
(a) No more shall trenching war channel her (ii) Poetic justice in Shakespeare,
fields, Nor bruise her flowerets with the
(iii) Use of sub-plot in a Shakespearean
armed hoofs of hostile paces. \
play,
(b) Harry to Harry shall, hot horse to horse
(iv) Character of Malvolio.
Meet and ne’er part till one drop down a
corse. (v) Supernatural element in Shakespeare.
(c) For some displeasing service I have M.A. (Previous) DEGREE EXAMINATION.
done, That, in his secret doom, out of my English Language and Literature (2004)
blood Hell breed revengement and a Paper II — SHAKESPEARE
scourge for me. (Effective from the Admitted Batch of 1993-1994)
(d) Rare words! brave world ! Hosters, my Time : Three hours Maximum : 100 marks
breakfast, come ! Answer ALL questions.

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 All questions carry equal marks.
1. Annotate FOUR of the following : (c) Attempt a character sketch of Caliban.
(a) As the honey of Hybla, my old lad of the 5. Answer ONE of the following :
castle, (a) Write a critical essay on the Elizabethan theatre
And if not a buff j’erkino a more sweet and the Elizabethan audience,
robe (b) ‘Shakespeare’s tragedy seems to be skill, his
of durance? comedy to be instinct’. Examine.
(b) If the rascal have not given me (c) Write short notes on any TWO of the
medicines to following:
make me (i) Influence of Seneca on Shakespeare
love him, 1’11 be hanged; it could not be (ii) Shakespeare’s humour
else; I have drunk medicines, (iii) Falstaff
(iv) The relationship between Hamlet and
(c) See how this river comes me cranking Ophelia.
in, And cuts me from the best of all my (c) Write short notes on any TWO of the following:
land And huge half-moon, a monstrous (i) Influence of Seneca on Shakespeare
cantle out. (ii) Shakespeare’s humour
(d) Rare words! brave world! Hostess, my (iii) Falstaff
break fast,
(iv) The relationship between Hamlet and Ophelia.
Come! O, I could wish this tavern were
Model Question Paper - I
my drum!
Paper II SHAKESPEARE
(e) leave her to heaven
Time : 3 hours] [Maximum : 100 Marks
And to those thorns that in her bosom
lodge, To prick and sting her. All questions carry equal marks
Unit - I
(f) I doubt it is no other but the main,
His father’s death, and our overhasty Annotate any Four of the following :
marriage. (a) Imagination of some great exploit
(g) Thou wretched, rash, intruding fool, Drives him beyond the bounds of patience.
farewell! (b) Why, thou knowest I am as valiant as Hercules;
I took thee for thy better; take thy fortune; but beware instinct; the lion will not touch the true
Thou find’st to be too busy is some prince.
danger, (c) So when he had occasion to be seen,
(h) Jtfiperious Caeser deep and turned to He was but as the cuckoo is in June,
clay, Might stop a hole to keep the wind Heard, not regarded;
away; (d) If he outline the envy of this day,
England did never owe so sweet a hope,
2. Answer ONE of the following: So much misconstrued in his wantonness.
(a) Consider Hamlet as a revenge tragedy. (e) Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice;
(b) Write a critical essay on the soliloquies Take each man’s censure, but reserve thy
of Hamlet. judgement.
(c) Is Henry IV Part I a part of a series or is it (f) Where lone is great, the littlest doubts are fear;
self-contained? Discuss. Where little fears grow great, great line grows
3. Answer ONE of the following : there.
(a) Write a critical essay on the theme of (g) A man may fish with the worm taht hath eat of a
love in Shakespeare’s sonnets. king, and eat of the fish that hath fed of that worm.
(b) Shakespeare’ s sonnets ‘stand forth (h) Imperious Caesar, dead and turn’d to clay,
rounded and whole, like a work of art’. Might stop a hole to keep the wind away :
Discuss. Unit - II
(c) The Dark Lady of the sonnets of (a) “Some of Hamlet’s actions and speeches seem
Shakespeare is both person and anterior to his true character”. Discuss.
symbol’ — Discuss.
or
4. Answer ONE of the following :
(b) Write a critical essay on the relationship between
(a) Discuss Much Ado About Nothing as Hamlet and Ophelia.
a romantic comedy.
or
(b) How does Shakespeare depict the
(c) Bring out the importance of the comic spirit in
change in Prospero’s character from that
Henry IV Part I.
of a ruthless magician to a man
governed solely in his actions by Unit - III
parental devotion. (a) Write a ciritical essay on anytwo of the sonnets of
Shakespeare.
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(b) Shakespeare’s sonnets are ‘full of abstract We will not now be troubled with reply,
meditations on the ravages of time and the We offer fair; take it advisedly.
nature of love.” Discuss. (g) It please your majesty to turn your looks
Unit - IV Of favour from myself and all our house,
(a) Critically examine the view thatTwelfth Night is And yet I must I remember you my lord,
a comedy of humours with reference to Malvolio. We were the first and dearest of your friends.
or (h) Talk not of dying, I am out out of fear
(b) Bring out the character contrast between Viola Of death or death’s hand for this one-half year.
and Olivia in Twelfth Night.
Unit - II
or
Answer one of the following :
(c) Evaluate The Tempest as a Shakespearean
(a) Sketch the character of Prince Hal.
Utopia.
(b) Discuss the importance of Falstaff in Henry
Unit - V
IV Part I.
(a) Write a critical note on the sources of the plays
(c) Comment on Hamlet as an existential hero.
of Shakespeare prescribed for the study.
Unit - III
or
Answer one of the following :
(b) Write an essay on Shakespeare’s conception
(a) Discuss the theme love as expounded is
of Tragedy.
Sonnets.
or
(b) Attempt a critical appreciation of anytwo Sonnets
(c) Write short notes on any Two of the following :
prescribed for study.
(i) Soliloquies in the plays of Shakespeare
(c) Write a note on the style of Sonnets.
(ii) The supernatural element in the plays of
Unit - IV
Shakespeare
Answer One of the following :
(iii) The grave-diggers scene in Hamlet.
(a) Sketch the character of Beatrice.
(iv) The sonnet.
(b) “Much Ado About Nothing” ranges over almost
Model Question Paper - II
the entire gamut of human experience.” Discuss.
Paper II SHAKESPEARE
(c) Sketch the character of Prospero.
Time : 3 hours] [Maximum : 100 Marks
Unit - V
All questions carry equal marks
Answer one of the following :
Unit - I
(a) Discuss the background to the emergence of
Annotate Four of the following : Shakespearean tragedy.
(a) O God, God, (b) Write in detail on Romantic comedy.
How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable Seem to (c) Write short notes on two of the following:
me all the uses of this world ! Fie ou’t, ah, fie
(1) tragi-comedy.
- ’tis an unweeded garden That goes to seed.
(2) three unities
(b) Why what should be the fear ?
(3) tragic flaw.
I do not set my life at a pin’s fee,
(4) Shakespeare’s Threate.
And for my soul, what can it do to that,
Being a thinhg immortal as in itself ?
Model Question Paper - III
(c) For Hecuba !
Paper II SHAKESPEARE
What’s Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba
Time : 3 hours] [Maximum : 100 Marks
That he should weep for her ?
All questions carry equal marks
(d) To die, to sleep
Unit - I
No more ? and by a sleep, to say we end The
Annotate Four of the following :
heart ache and the thousand natural shocks
That flesh is heir to. (a) But, look, the morn, in russet mantle clad
‘walks O’er the dew of you high eastward hill:
(e) Then are we all undone
(b) Though this he madness, yet there is method
It is not possible, it cannot be,
in’t
The king should keep his word in loving us;
Will you walk out of the air, my lord?
He will suspect us still and find a time
O, from this time forth,
To punish this offense in other faults.
(c) My thoughts be bloody, or be nothing worth !
(f) So tell your cousin, and bring me word
(d) Let Hercles himself do what he may,
What he will do; but if he will not yield
The cat will mew and dog will have his day.
Rebuke and dread correction wait on us
(e) Well, for two of them, I know them
And they shall do their office. So, be gone;
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 back; and for the third, if he fight longer (g) The Fool
then he sees reason, I’ll forswear arms. (h) The tragic irony
(f) Some heavy business hath My lord in hand,
And I must know it, else he loves me not. Model Question Paper - IV
(g) A hundred thousand rebels die in this: Paper II SHAKESPEARE
Thou shalt have charge and sovereign trust herein. Time : 3 hours] [Maximum : 100 Marks
(h) Tut, tut; good enough to toss; food All questions carry equal marks
for powder, food for power; they’ll Unit - I
fill a pit as well as better; tush, man, Annotate four the following :
mortal men, mortal mem. (a) By heaven methinks it were an easy leap
Unit - II To pluck bright honor from the palefaced moon
(a) ‘Hamlet is a mere doubting and irresolute Or dive into the bottom of the deep
waverly, a Jhon-a- dreams, an Where fathomline could not thouch the ground
ultraconscientious thinker; Discuss. And pluck up drowned honor by the locks.
or (b) O Harry, thou hast robbed me of my youth !
(b) Bring out the character contrast between Hal I better brook the loss of brittle life
and Hotspur. Than those round titles thou hast won for me
or They wound my thoughts worse than thy sword my flesh.
(c) Comment on the criticism that King Henry IV is (c) What I have done my safety urged me to;
claculating and coll, always a political And I embrace this fortune patiently,
Manipulator, seldom as understanding father. Since not to be avoided it falls on me.
Unit - III (d) I do not think a braver gentleman,
(a) Attempt a critical analysis of the themes of the More active-valiant or more valiant-young
sonnets of Shakespeare.
More during or more bold is now alive
(b) Write a critical note on ‘The Dark Lady’ of the
To grace this latter age with noble deeds
sonnets of Shakespeare.
(e) Nay, their endeavour keeps in the wonted
or
pace; but there is, Sir, an eyrie of children,
(c) The sonnets of Shakespeare ‘are varied in
quality, ranging from the perfect to the trivial : little eyases, that cry out on the top of question
That they are often obscure, alluding to matters and are most tyrannically clapped for it.
of which we have, and can have, no full (f) Ay, springes to catch woodcocks. I do know
cognisance; and that they are intensely When the blood burns, how prodigal the soul
personal.’ Discuss. Lends the tongue vows.
Unit - IV (g) I am but mad north-north west; when the wind
(a) ‘Twelfth Night makes us laugh at the follie of is southerly I know a hawk from a handsaw.
mankind, not despise them. Comment. (h) And in the up an union shall he throw
or Richer than that which four successive kings
(b) Sum up the moral vision of Shakespeare as In Denmark’s crown have worn.
revealed in ‘The Tempest.
Unit - II
or
(a) Attempt a critical estimate of Hamlet as a tragic hero.
(c) How far would you agree with the view That
or
‘Learning’ is major theme in The Tempest.
Write a critical essay on Shakespeare’s landing
Unit - V
of sources in Hamlet.
(a) Write a critical note on the scheme of
(b) Henry IV, Part I integrates actions that suggest
Shakespeare’s Historical Plays.
comedy and tragedy as well as history. Elaborate.
or
or
(b) Write a critical note on Shakespearean comedy.
Comment on the different perspectives on honour
or offered by Falstaff, Hotspur, Prince Hal and the
(c) Write short notes on any four of the following : King.
(a) Shakespearean theatre Unit - III
(b) The comic relief in the tragedies Attempt an essay on one of the following:
(c) Shakespeare’s wit and humor (a) “There are three important problems connected
(d) The three unities. with the sonnets : the historical, the literary, the
(e) The historical drama autobiographical” - Elaborate.
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 Comment on the identity and personality traits (f) The undiscovered country, form whose bourn
ofthe Dark Lady referred to in the Sonnets. No traveller returns - puzzles the will,
Unit - IV And make us rather bear those ills we have
Attempt one of the following : Than fly to others that we know not of ?
(a) 1. Caliban is both villian and clown- Comment. Thus conscience does make cowards of us all.
or (g) What if his this cursed hand
2. “The Tempest is both a charming were thicker than it self with brother’s blood ?
entertainment, full ofmusic and stage
Is there not rain enough in the sweet heavens
spectacle and a serious philosophical
drama.” Elaborate. To wash it white as snow ?
(b) 1. Consider the absurdlies in twelfth night (h) - let us know,
or Our indiscretion some time serves us well,
Write a note on the domestic significance of the Malvolio When our deep plots do pall; and that
episode. Do you consider it to be a satire on should learn us
puritanism. There’s a divinity that shapes our ends.
Unit - V Rough - hew them how we will.
Attempt one of the following : Unit - II
(a) Describe the characteristics of Shakespearean Tragedy. Answer one of the following :
(b) Comment on Shakespeare’s use of the supernatural element. (a) Give an account on the historical background of
(c) Attempt an estimate of the function of subplots in Henry IV Part I.
Shakespeare’s plays. (b) Comment on the dramatic importance of ghost
(d) Write short notes on two of the following : scenes in Hamlet.
(i) Shakespeare’s treatment of History. (c) Discuss Hamlet as an existential play.
(ii) Elizabethan Stage. Unit - III
(iii) Play within the play. Answer one of the following :
(iv) Soliloquies in Shakespeare. (a) Write a note on the poetic imagery of Sonnets.
Model Question Paper - V (b) Explain the problem of Dark Lady of Sonnets.
Paper II SHAKESPEARE (c) Discuss the theme of love in Sonnets.
Time : 3 hours] [Maximum : 100 Marks Unit - IV
All questions carry equal marks Answer one of the following :
Unit - I (a) Discuss the structure of Twelfth Night.
Annotate four of the following passages : (b) Sketch the character of Orisino.
(a) If all the year were playing holidays, (c) Comment on the character of Caliban in
To sport wouldbe as tedious as to work; Tempest.
But when they seldom come, the wished for Unit - V
come, Answer one of the following :
And nothing pleaseth but rare accidents. (a) What is the nature of Shakespearean tragedy ?
(b) Do you not love me ? do you not indeed ? (b) Explain Romantic Comedy.
Well, do not then, for since you love me not (c) Write short notes on two of the following :
I will not love myself. Do you not love me ? (a) Chronicle play.
Nay, tell me if you speak in jest or no. (b) Play within play in Hamlet.
(c) I had rather be a kitten and cry mew (c) three unities
Than one of these same meter ballad-mongers; (d) tragic flaw.
I had rather hear a brazen canstick turned, Model Question Paper - VI
or a dry wheel qrate n the axletree, Paper II SHAKESPEARE
And that would set my teeth nothing on edge, Time : 3 hours] [Maximum : 100 Marks
(d) And if we live, we live to tread on kings, All questions carry equal marks
If die, drave death when princes die with us! Unit - I
Now, for our consciences, the arms are fair, Annotate four of the following passages:
When the intent of bearing them is just, (a) If they speak more or less than truth, they are
(e) What a piece of work is a man. How villains and the sons of darknes ?
noble in reason, how infinite in faculties. (b) Faith, for their poverty, I know not
In form and moving how express and Where they had that, and for their bareness
admirable, in action how like an angel, I am sure they never learned that of me.
in apprehension how like a god. The (c) But I will never be a truant, love
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 Till I have learned they language. Shakespearean play.
(d) I am content that he shall take the adds (d) Write short notes on any two of the following :
Of his great name and estimation. (i) Shakespeare’s idea of a man.
And I will, to save the blood on either side, (ii) Theme of revenge.
They fortune with him in a single fight. (iii) Shakespearean utopia.
(e) By in directions find directions out : (iv) Music in Shakespeare.
So by my former lecture and advice, Paper II SHAKESPEARE
shall you my son. Model Question Paper - VII
(f) Or rather say, the cause of this defect, Time : 3 hours [Maximum : 100 Marks
For this effect defective comes by cause. Answer ALL Questions
(g) O God, I could be bounded in a nut shell and All questions carry equal marks
count myself a king of infinite space, were it not Unit - I
that I have bad dreams. Annotate FOUR of the following :
(h) Not a whit, we defy augury; there’s a special (a) He was prejurned like a milliner.
providence in the fall of a sparrow. (b) I better brook the loss of brittle life
Unit II Than those proud titles you fast won of me.
Attempt one of the following : (c) I shall think the better of myself and thee, during my life.
(a) (i) Sketch the character of Polonius. (d) This earth that bears thee dead,
(or) Bears not alive so stout a gentleman.
(ii) Attempt a critical appreciation of Hamlet’s (e) There’s the respect that makes calamity of so long life.
soliloquies. (f) There’s something in his soul,
(or) O’er which his melancholy sits on brood.
(b) (i) How does Shakespeare realte the political (g) I essentially am not a madness.
theme of the play Henry IV Part I to the moral But mad in craft.
flow in the king’s nature ?
(h) Rightly to be great,
(or)
Is not to stir without great argument.
(ii) Falstaff is entirely the darling of
Unit - II
Shakespeare’s imagination. Explain.
(a) Consider Hamlet as a tragic hero.
Unit III
or
Attempt an essay on any one of the following :
(b) Comment on the supernatural element in The Hamlet.
(a) Comment on the thematic pattern in
Shakespeare’s sonnets. or
(or) (c) Discuss the character of Prince Hal.
(b) Is the sonnet-sequence an allegory of some sort Unit - III
? Explain. (a) “The sonnets are intesely autobiographical.” Comment.
Unit IV or
Attempt one of the following : (b) Discuss the sonnet form used by
(a) (i) Sketch the character of Prospero the Shakespeare.
Shakespearean superman. or
(or) (c) Examine the themes of Shakespeare’ s
(ii) Discuss the use of classical unities in The sonnets.
Tempest. Unit - IV
or (a) Explain the significance of the title The Tempest.
(b) (i) Discuss the use of songs by Shakespeare or
in this gay comedy Twelfth Night. (b) Discuss the character of Prospero.
(or) or
(ii) Consider Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night as (c) Write a note on Viola.
a romantic comedy. Unit - V
Unit V (a) Give an account of Shakespeare’s use of the supernatural.
Attempt one of the following : or
(a) Explain the significance of Act Divisions in (b) Write notes on TWO of the following :
Shakespeare. i) Shakespeare, the man
(b) Comment on Bradley’ s views of a ii) Wit and humour in Shakespeare
Shakespearean tragedy. iii) Shakespeare’s use of song
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 Paper II SHAKESPEARE scutcheant and so ends my catechism.
Model Question Paper - VIII Unit - II
Time : 3 hours] [Maximum : 100 Marks (a) Write a critical note on Hamlet’s madness.
All questions carry equal marks or
Unit - I (b) Discuss the importance of the grave digger’s scene,
Annotate any FOUR of the following : or
(a) O that it could be proved (c) Attempt a character sketch of Ophelia.
That some night - tripping fairy had Unit - III
exchanged (a) Bring out the character contrast between Hal and Hotspur.
In cradle - clothes our children where they or
lay, (b) Write an essay on Shakespeare’s treatment of
And called mine percy, his Plantagenet ! history in Henry IV
(b) Wilt thou rob this leathern Jerkin, crystal - or
button Not - pated egatering, puke - (c) Bring out the importance of the comic spirit in Henry
stocking, caddlie - garter, smoeth - tongue, IV Part - I.
Spanish - Peueh. Unit - IV
(c) Rare words ! brave world ! Hostess, my (a) Evaluate the achievement of Shakespeare as a
breakfast, come ! O, I could wish this tavern sonneteer.
were my drum !
or
(d) Why, she would hang on him,
(b) Write essay on the autobiographical element of
As if increase of appetite had grown Shakespeare’s sonnets.
By what he fed on; end yet within a month, Unit - IV
Let me not think out, - frailty, thy name is (a) In what sense do Prospero, Ariel and Caliban
women! reprerent on allegory of the human situation. THE
(e) For in that sleep of death what dreams may TEMPEST.
come, or
When we have shuffled off this mortal coll, (b) In what sense THE TEMPEST can be called a
Must give us pause. ‘Romance’? Discuss.
(f) Here, thou ancestor, murderous, demand or
Dare, (c) Comment on the immense variety of love in “Twelfth
Drink off this potion : is thy union here ? Night”.
(g) I thought thy bride-bed to have decked, sweet maid (d) ‘Shakespeare is above all writers the post of nature
And not have strews’d thy grave. the poet that holds up to his readers a faithful mirror
(h) Why ? detraction will not suffer it. of man and his environment, manner and life’ -
Therefore I’ll none of it. Honour is a more Discuss.

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