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PSSOU Going Through Shakespeare (M-247) Solved Assignment 2025-26

PSSOU MA English Solved Assignment 2025-26

Pandit Sundarlal Sharma (Open) University
Assignment Work
Session – July – June 2025-26
M.A (English Literature) Final
Subject – Going Through Shakespeare

(Assignment—1)
Section—A
1. Who is called ‘Bard of Avon.’
2. Who has said ‘William Shakespeare was not of an age but, for all time’ ?
3. Where was Shakespeare buried ?
4. Where did most of the action in ‘As You Like It’ take place ?
5. Where was Ariel confined by Sycorax ?
6. What is the principal source of the plot of the play ‘King Henry the IV’ ?
7. ‘Julius Caesar’ was published in which folio of Shakespeare’s plays.
8. What are the three unities in a play ?
Section—B
9. Write a note on the setting of the play ‘As You Like It.’
10. Write a note on the humour as an essential feature of Shakespeare’s dramatic genius.
11. Write in brief about the history plays of Shakespeare.
12. Write a character sketch of Miranda.
13. Write in brief about the part played by Aries in the play ‘The Tempest.’
14. Describe the first meeting of Macbeth with three witches.
(Assignment—3)
Section—C
15. Explain the following with reference to the context :
All the world’s a stage
And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exists and their entrances,
And one man is his time plays many parts.
16. Explain the following with reference to the context :
And so from hour to hour we ripe and ripe,
And then from hour to hour we rot and rot;
And thereby hangs a tale.’
17. Explain the following with reference to the context :
We are such stuff
As dreams are made on, and our little life
Is surrounded with a sleep.
18. Explain the following with reference to the context :
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more; it is a tale,
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury
Signifying nothing
(Assignment—3)
Section—D
19. Discuss ‘As You Like It’ as a Pastoral Comedy.
20. Write a note on observance of three unities in the play ‘The Tempest.’
21. Write a character sketch of Falstaff.
22. Write a character sketch of Brutus.
(Assignment—4)
Section—E
23. Discuss Macbeth as a tragic hero.
24. Write a character sketch of Antony.