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MEG-2 British Drama Important question n strategy


Block-wise important question from each play based on old question paper & Other important questions from exam point of view


Block-1 Doctor Faustus - 17RTC
1. Tragedy of the Renaissance and Reformation - IIII
2. Christian faith
3.Dr. Fanstus stands for the Renaissance man // tragedy of the aspirational Renaissance man.
4. Tragic irresolution is the strength // Tragedy in Dr. Faustus - I // a tragedy of human heroism.
5. A tragedy of neurosis and relate it to the predicament of contemporary man.

TRAGIC CONFLICT
a) Dr. Faustus attempts to depart from a comedy of evil to become a tragedy of human heroism.
b) role of Mephistophilis - II
c) dramatic poetry.
d) Homo, fuge : Whither should I fly ?"
The Split Personality of Doctor Faustus
Notes - Helen, The agony of Dr. Faustus
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Block-2 A Midsummer Night's Dream 11RTC

a) Shakespearean romantic comedy - III //basic plot of Romantic Comedy// How does Shakespeare alter the romantic comedy formula in A Midsummer Night's Dream ?

b) "grand quarrel scene" between Hermia and Helena

PLAY WITHIN THE PLAY

c) role played by the Mechanicals - I, especially Bottom

d) common points between the main play and the Mechanicals' play in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream

Fairies- I
Titania-Oberon plot
significance of the pastoral
The element of fantasy in A Mid Summer's Night Dream.

Dreams - III
gender issues// Shakespeare's treatment of women

"Celebrating love within the institution of marriage." Is it an apt description of A Midsummer Night's Dream ?
Notes - Bottom - II, Beatrice, Puck, Hermia
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Block-3 William Shakespeare : Hamlet - 16RTC
Analyse Hamlet as a revenge play - III // Revenge is the central theme of Hamlet.
tragedy of a man obsessed with melancholy - I
Tragedy of irresolution and inaction - I
Hamlet as a Shakespearean tragic hero.
"To be, or not to be"
major themes in Hamlet's soliloquies. - IIII
significance of the play within play - I
Hamlet's attitude towards Claudius
"Claudius rather than Hamlet is the protagonist of the play."
Notes - Osric - I, Horatio - I , Claudius - I, Gertrude, Ophelia, Laertes-Hamlet Clash
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Block-4 Ben Jonson : The Alchemist - 13RTC
Structure
the use of alchemy in the Alchemist
through Subtle that Ben Jonson has exposed and satirized the cheats and swindlers // Subtle - II
What makes the Alchemist so popular among theatre groups both in the Elizabethan and the Modern age.
"The issues with which he chose to deal were among the most deeply ingrained preoccupations of his age." Discuss with reference to Ben Jonson's The Al
The illusion of reality with regard to alchemy as the central motif - I
Jacobean society - II
Ben Jonson's The Alchemist attempts to capture the spirit of his age.
a satire on human follies and foibles - I // Satirical comedy

Comedy of Humours
The Alchemist as a comedy of character and event.
role played by the swindlers and the Dupes
classical tragedy in which unities of time, place and action are strictly followed.
Notes- Cheats, Widow Quinn
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Block-5 The Playboy of the Western World - 7RTC
"extravagant comedy" - III
either a comedy nor a tragedy.
Bildungsroman - I
as a dark comedy. - I
Folk Play - I
Title
Imagery
Discuss the role of J.M. Synge in the Irish Dramatic Movement with special reference to The Playboy of the Western World.
The farcical elements
"The Playboy of the Western World is a play about the instinctive desire to rebel against tradition."
"The Playboy of the Western World is a play about rebellion.
The Playboy of the Western World illustrates the changed concept of comedy in the modern world. Discuss.
Notes - Pegeen Mike, Shawn Keogh, Christy
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Block-6 Bernard Shaw: Pygmalion - 9RTC
social snobbery and class difference // Class Conflict // Pygmalion examines class and gender difference in a comic perspective. // Shaw denounce social snobbery - I
Doolilttle's criticism of middle class morality
Is Shaw's Verbal humour only funny, or is it also instructive ?
element of romance in. the play in harmony with the ideology - I
How is Pygmalion, an early 20thcentury play set in England meaningful to you in India at the end of the millenium ?
"Pygmalion hinges on the contrast of characters."
themes and issues use of myth contribute to the enrichment
the comic conventions in Pygmalion - II
social implications of the different modes of English speech - I
comment on the verbal comedy
The character of Eliza - II
Notes - Higgins - II, Use of myth, Colonel Pickering
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Block-7 T.S. Eliot: Murder in the Cathedral - 7RTC
nature of the four temptations that Beckett confronts in Murder in the Cathedral - I //significance of the fourth temptation - II
idea of Martyrdom - IIII
Chorus - IIII III
Becket's silence after the fourth temptation
Eliot's Christian perspective
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Block-8 John Osborne: Look In Anger - 10RTC
title of the play - I
element of misogyny
Gender and class conflict - I
Characters in Look Back in Anger are enmeshed in class and gender issues.
The Angry young men - IIII I
Jimmy - Alison relationship - III
character-sketch of Jimmy
Discuss the Romantic and Modernist conceptions of character in the presentation of Jimmy as the play's protagonist.
’Notes - Alison
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Block-9 Samuel Beckett: Waiting for Godot - 5 RTC
Theatre of Absurd - IIII // Absurd Play
existentialist play - III // existentialist crisis of modern man
Title
Tragicomedy
Structure - III
the irrationality of human experience is transferred to the stage.
interaction of the two tramps, Estragon and Vladimir
changes that Lucky and Pozzo undergo during the course of the play - I
"Beckett rejects the received logic of form and conventional structure."
analyze Lucky's speech
Notes - Lucky-IIII, Estragon , Time in Waiting for Godot
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MEG02: British Drama

(Important Questions answers)

Q1: - Critically examine Ben Jonson's comedy of Humours.

Q2: - What is the dramatic structure of hamlet?

Q3: - Analyze the structure of Hamlet.

Q4: - What are the THEMES of Hamlet.

Q5: - Discuss the main features of Elizabethan tragedy. OR Discuss the main features of Elizabethan
drama focusing on Shakespeare and Marlowe.

Q6: - How does Jonson produce the illusion of reality with respect to alchemy.

Q7: - Explain how irresolution becomes the dramatic strength of both Marlowe's Doctor Faustus

Q8: - Discuss Dr. Faustus as a tragedy. It is from british drama Doctor Fautus.

Q9: - How did Shakespeare alter the Romantic Comedy formula in A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

Q10: - Comment on themes and issues that show raises in Pygmalion.

Q11: - Comment on the title, The Playboy of the Western World.

Q12: - What is the Major Themes Playboy of the Western World.

Q13: - Discuss Waiting for Godot as an existentialist play?

Q14: - What is the significance of Becket's silence after the fourth temptation?

Q15: - Why is "Murder in the Cathedral" called a poetic play?

Q16: - Write short note on Romantic Comedy.

Q17: - Write short note on Shawn Keogh.

Q18: - Themes/Issues “The Playboy of the Western World”.

Q19: - Define the Helen in Dr. Faustus.

Q20: - Lucky in waiting for Godot.

Q21: - Critically examine the structures of Waiting for Godot.

Q22: - Discuss Doolilttle's criticism of middle class morality in Pygmalion.

Q23: - Outline the major themes in Hamlet's soliloquise.

Q24: - Examine the tradition of the English Morality play.

Q25: - Comment on the title of the play Look Back in Anger.

Q26: - Briefly tell me about "romantic exuberance" in the comedies of Shakespeare.

Q27: - Discuss sin and redemptions in Dr.Faustus.

Q28: - Analysis of Major Characters “A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM”.

Q29: - The tragedy of Hamlet is the tragedy of irresolution and inaction. Is it a fair assessment of
Hamlet? Discuss

Q30: - Is Dr. Faustusa successful Christian tragedy? Give a reasoned answer

Q31: - Discuss the character of Mephastophilis. How much of a role does he play in Faustus’s
damnation? How does Marlowe complicate his character and inspire our sympathy?

Q32: - Write short note on Horatio.?

Q33: - Examine the growth of English tragedy since the Mystery and Miracle plays.

Q34: - Discuss the gender issues in the play A Midsummer Night's Dream.

Q35: - Write short note on Pozzo.

Q36: - Write short note on Hermia's dream.

Q37: - Write short note on Widow Quin.

Q38: - Write short note on Dupes in The Alchemist.

Q38: - Write short note on Blank verse in tragedy.

Answers


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