Assignment Code: MEG-2/TMA-3/2005

Coverage: Blocks 1-9

Maximum Marks: 100

Note: Attempt the following questions in approx. 250 words each.

1. Discuss the character of Dr. Faustus10

2. What is the significance of the mechanicals in A Midsummer Night's Dream?10

3. Discuss Hamlet as a revenge play.10

4. Analyse the structure of The Alchemist.10

5. The Playboy was the centre of a fierce controversy when it was first staged. Do you think the play breaks new ground? (10)

6. Comment on the theatrical effects Shaw employs in Pygmalion. (10)

7. Discuss Murder in the Cathedral as a Christian play. (10)

8. Do you think there is a latent intelligibility behind the unpunctuated idiotic words and phrases of Lucky, Estragon and Pozzo in Waiting for Godot? (10)

9. Do the social and economic realities of Britain in the 1950s find expression, direct or indirect, in Look Back In Anger? If so, how? (10)

10. From among the plays you have read for the course comment on any one play that according to you has relevance to the present time. (10)