(b) () (@) @ @ @ D/7(207)}—S00 (4) Which critic called Hamlet an artistic failure? What message does Rosencrantz deliver from the Queen? What was Prospero’s title before his position was usurped and he was forced to flee from Italy? How long have Prospero and Miranda been on their island? What was the name of Caliban’s mother? Where does the opening scene of Twelfth Night take place? Who forges the letter that Malvolio thinks is from Olivia? Where does the final battle of the play Henry IV, Part I take place? Who was the King before Henry IV? tee M/Sem II/03 Total No. of Questions : 5] [Total No. of Printed Pages : 4 Roll No. . M/Sem 11/03 M. A. (Semester II) Examination 2016-17 ENGLISH Paper No. Course-7 : ENG-203 : Drama-tl (Shakespeare) Time : 3 hours Full Marks : 70 (Write your Roll No. at the top immediately on the receipt of this question paper) The figures in the right-hand margin indicate marks Answer all Sections Candidates are required to write their answers in their own words as far as practicable Section—A Long Answer Type questions to be answered in about 500 words each : 1, Examine how Twelfth Night belongs to a genre of romantic comedy. 12 Or “Though the concept of honour is one of the principal themes of the play, it has not been given any consistent definition in Henry IV, Part 1.” Elaborate. D/7(207|—S00 (Tum Over)(2) 2. Discus how the mystery of Hamlet's dilemma can be called the Sphinx of modern literature. 12 Or Discuss the utopian and dystopian elements in The Tempest. Section—B . Explain with reference to the context any three of the following passages in about 200 words each : 3x6 @ We are such stuff ‘As dreams are made on, and our little life Is rounded with a sleep. () You taught me language, and my profit on’t Is I know how to curse. The red plague rid you For learning me your language! (c) This above all : to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, ‘Thou canst not then be false to any man. (d) Thus conscience does make cowards of us all; And thus the native hue of resolution Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought, And enterprises of great pith and moment With this regard their currents turn awry, And lose the name of action. /7(207) (Continued) (3) (e) 1 must be crue! only to be kind. ‘Thus bad begins and worse remains behind. Section—C 4. Answer any three questions in about 200 words each : 3x6 (a) Discuss A. C. Bradley as an impressionist critic of Shakespeare. (b) How does Samuel Johnson defend Shakespeare’s neglect of unities? (c) G. Wilson Knight wrote an essay on Hamlet called The Embassy of Death (collected in The Wheel of Fire). The essay is sort of a troll. He argues that but for Hamlet himself, Denmark is a happy, lively place. Discuss. (d) Discuss Caroline Spurgeon’s analysis of different types of images and motifs in Shakespeare's works. (e) Discuss how Greenblatt has explored the connexions between history and text in his Renaissance criticism. Section—D 5. Answer the following questions in a sentence each : 10x1 (a) What had Bernardo seen at a prior watch? D/7(207) (Turn Over)