Annamalai University B.A English B.A. Degree Examination, 2010 - English - Third year - Part - III - Paper - VII - Shakespeare Question paper

(ENGLISH)
( THIRD YEAR )
( PART - III )
( PAPER - VII)

720. SHAKESPEARE

( Common to B.A. English and
Communications)
( Including Lateral Entry )

May ] [ Time : 3 Hours
Maximum : 100 Marks

Answer ALL the questions.

All questions carry equal marks.

I. Annotate any FIVE of the following passages, choosing at least TWO from each group : (5×4= 20)

GROUP - A

(a) For know Iago, But that I love the gentle Desdemona I would not my unhoused free condition Put into circumspection and confine For the sea's worth.
(b) She that could think, and ne'er disclose her mind See suitors following and not look behind.
She was a wight, if ever such wights were.
(c) I'll catch him tame and talk him out of patience His bed shall seem a school, his board a shrift I'll intermingle everything he do 's With Cassio 's suit.
(d) I would have him nine years a killing, A fine woman ! A fine woman ! A fair woman ! A sweet woman!
(e) I must weep But they are cruel tears : this sorrow's heavenly : It strikes where it doth love.

GROUP - B

(f) You taught me language and my profit on' Is I know how to curse.
(g) We are such stuff. As dreams are made on, and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.
(h) I had rather crack my siners, break my back Than you should such dishonour undergo While I sit lazy by.
(i) Both, both my girl : By foul play as they say 'st were we heard thence But blessedly holp hither.
(j) How beauteous mankind is ! O brave new world That has such people in it !

II. Write an essay on ONE of the following: ( 1×20 = 20)

1. Write an essay on music, songs and pageantry in the "The Tempest".
2. Sketch the character of Ariel.
3. Treat "The Tempest" as the last play of Shakespeare.

III. Write an essay on ONE of the following: ( 1×20 = 20)

4. Treat Othello as a tragic hero of Shakespeare.
5. Sketch the character of Desdemona.
6. Analyze the features of a Shakespearean tragedy with special reference to "Othello."

IV. Write an essay on TWO of the following: ( 2 ×20 =40)

7. (a) Sketch the character of King Richard - II.
(OR)
(b) Examine Shakespeare's treatment of history in "Richard - II.

8. (a) Sketch the character of Romeo.
(OR)
(b) Analyze the quarrel between the Montagues and the Capulets in "Romeo and Juliet."

9. (a) Sketch the character of Viola.
(OR)
(b) Bring out the qualities of a Shakespearean Romantic comedy with special reference to 'Twelfth Night.'