BDP
Assignment
December-2017 & June-2018
Elective Course
ENGLISH
(New Syllabus)
3rd Paper
The Restoration: EEG-3
1. Answer any two of the following questions:
20 × 2 = 40
a) Show how Neo-Classicism influenced the literature of its time in England.
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b) Examine Samuel Butler’s use of satire in Hudibras.
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c) Show how the Christian Puritan spirit is manifest in John Bunyan’s The Pilgrim's Progress.
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Pilgrim’s Progress.
d) What is the dramatic significance of the Proviso Scene in The Way of the World?
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2. Answer any three of the following questions: 10 × 3 = 30
a) Account
for the history of drama from its suppression in the Puritan age to its revival
in the Restoration.
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b) Comment on Dryden’s presentation of Shadwell in Macflecknoe.
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c) What do you consider to be the major theme in Aphra Behn's ‘Love Armed’?
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d) What, according to Dryden, are Ben Jonson’s virtues as a playwright?
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e) Evaluate the dramatic achievements of one writer of the comedy of manners, and one other creator of heroic tragedy, during England’s Restoration Age.
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f) How do Fainall and Mrs. Marwood contribute to the development of the action in The Way of the World?
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3. Answer any four of the following: 6 × 4 = 24
a)
What factors led to the Puritan opposition to drama in England?
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b)
Write a note on the literary and philosophical legacy of the Royal Society.
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c)
Explain, with reference to the context, any one:
i)
Did I, my lines intend for public view, ...
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Beside, ’tis known he could speak Greek...
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d) How does Dryden use hypernatural elements
in MacFlecknoe?
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e)
What orders came from Charles II to extinguish the fire that Samuel Pepys describes
in his diary?
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f)
In An Essay of Dramatic Poesy, why does Dryden say he ‘loves’ Shakespeare ?
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g)
Bring out the significance of the Prologue to The Way of the World.
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h)
Why doesn’t Cleopatra agree to hand Antony over to the Roman authorities ?
