6. Describe the episode in which the Duke of Aumerle is concerned in the last act of Richard II., and say whether the episode, in your opinion, augments or retards the action of the play. 7. What patriotic passages are there in the historical plays? 8. What is Shakspeare's attitude towards rebellion and tyrannicide? 9. Discuss the character of Cleopatra as pourtrayed by Shakspeare. 10. Illustrate from an historical play the fop of Shakspeare's day. 11. In what special senses does Shakspeare use the words-Baffled, atone, depose, careful, map, peevish, ancient, to tender? 12. Give examples from the historical plays of the use of monosyllabic words as dissyllables, and of dissyllables as trissyllables. PAPER No. 3. The Board of Examiners. 1. In what plays do the following characters occur? -Antipholus, Apemantus, Arviragus, Borachio, Christopher Sly, Dull, Fleance, Florizel, Gonzalo, Isabella, Lafeu, Le Beau, Nerissa, Osric, Philostrate, Proteus, Rugby, Thersites. 2. What does Shakspeare say upon any of the following subjects ?-The Antipodes, the Music of the Spheres, suicide, hunting, travellers. If you cannot quote a passage, give its substance and its whereabouts. 3. By what marks can early plays be separated from late plays? Make an order of the first five and the last five. 4. Are there any plays in which you think Shakspeare worked in collaboration with others, and at which end of his career do they fall? 5. Explain how in some of the plays two stories are intertwined, as plot and sub-plot. 6. What is the substance of Goethe's criticism in "Wilhelm Meister," on Hamlet that filled Macaulay with despair? 7. Lear has been called a series of studies in insanity. Consider the play from this point of view. 8. What is the substance of Ruskin's criticism of the flowers in Winter's Tale? 9. Comment on the following passages :- (3) I'll make a ghost of him that lets me.-Hamlet. (6) Who ever loved that loved not at first sight? -As You Like It. (7) One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.-Troilus. (8) The lunatic, the lover, and the poet are of imagination all compact.-M. N. Dream. (9) Even as one heat another heat expels.-Two Gentlemen. 10. Write an essay on the following line from Wordsworth : With this key Shakspeare unlocked his heart. PAPER NO. 4. The Board of Examiners. THE POET'S LIFE, TIMES, AND CONTEMPORARIES. 1. What is known, and what can be fairly inferred, with respect to the relations between Sir Thomas Lucy and Shakspeare? 2. What were the fruits of Shakspeare's intimacy with Florio? 3. How has recent criticism dealt with the ascription of "small Latin and less Greek" to Shakspeare? 4. In what way is light thrown upon Shakspeare's London experience by the offensive reference to him in Robert Greene's "Groatsworth of Wit"? 5. Comment on the following remark of a Spaniard:"These English have their houses of sticks and dirt, but they fare commonly as well as the king." 6. Show what is meant by the saying that— "The time of Elizabeth was in every way 8 time of expansion." 7. Contrast Elizabeth and her successor. 8. What influence did the Armada have on the poets of the time? 9. Give an account of "Gorboduc" and its authors. Show wherein lies its importance in English literature. 10. Explain the character of the new departure made by Ben Jonson. Illustrate from his plays. 11. Who wrote Westward Ho! Cynthia's Revels, Hieronymo, Arden of Feversham, Philaster, A New Way to Pay Old Debts, Perkin Warbeck? 12. Mention, with names of authors, the works from which the following are taken : (a) "By shallow rivers, to whose falls (b) Back and side go bare, go bare, (c) Have I caught my heavenly jewel? (d) O thou art fairer than the evening air (e) What things have we seen (f) Only the actions of the just Smell sweet and blossom in the dust. (g) Take, O take those lips away. Which of the above have been quoted by Shakspeare, and where? ROBT. S. BRAIN, Government Printer, Melbourne. |