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University of Calicut
First Semester Model Examination (CUCSS PG), 2010
MA English Language and Literatur
Optional-Group A EN1E01- Shakespeare
Time: 3 Hrs. Weightage: 36

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I. Answer all the following questions in a word, phrase or sentence:
1. To what does Rosalind compare the declarations of love from Orlando, Silvius, and Phoebe?
2. Why does Rosalind doubt that Orlando is truly in love?
3. What is the source of As You Like It?
4. Mention the year in which As You Like It was first published? (4 x 1/2 = 2)

5. How does Cleopatra die?
6. The Source text of Antony and Cleopatra?
7. Mention the title of the Bernard Shaw’s play based on Antony and Cleopatra.
8. How does Antony react to the news of Fulvia’s death? (4 x 1/2 =2)

II. Answer any six of the following questions in a paragraph:
9. Seven stages of life as described in As You Like It.
10. Opening Scene in King Lear.
11. The relationship between madness and blindness in King Lear.
12. The character of Enobarbus.13. Magical elements in The Tempest.
14. Songs in The Tempest.15. Shakespeare’s Prose.
16. The ending of Measure for Measure.
17. Transcendence of time in Shakespearean Sonnets.
18. Comment on the Nature Imagery in sonnet No.15. (6x2 = 12)