MEG-02 : BRITISH DRAMA - model questions

 

·  Discuss the play-within-the-play and metaphors of theatre with reference to the plot of Hamlet?

· Discuss the significance of Hamlet's soliloquies with reference to the soul-searching he undergoes?

 · Comment on the nature and significance of the theme of revenge in Hamlet. How do the various characters in the play respond to the issue of revenge ?

· ‘‘Hamlet’s character is the prevalence of the abstracting and generalizing habit over the practical.’’ Discuss with reference to the play as a revenge tragedy?

·  Discuss Hamlet as a revenge play?

·  Discuss Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot as an existentialist play?

·  Critically comment on Waiting for Godot as a play establishing new conventions for modern theatre?

·  Comment on the structure of Waiting for Godot?

·  Beckett rejects the conventional structure of a play to depict the absurd predicament in Waiting for Godot. Discuss?

· Discuss Waiting for Godot as a play that presents the existentialist crisis of modem man?

· Discuss Dr. Faustus as a tragedy?

· Critically examine Doctor Faustus as a tragedy of human heroism?

· Examine Doctor Faustus as a study of conflict with reference to the Christian faith?

* Dr. Faustus attempts to depart from a comedy of evil to become a tragedy of human heroism. Do you agree ? Give a reasoned answer?