Essay questions for Groups 2, 3 & 4.
Answer on one of the following questions. Students must submit an essay of between 1,500 and 2,000 words. Submission deadlines can be found in the freshman student handbook.
1. Write on the significance of audience interaction in Mankind.
2. Discuss the significance of the Queen’s decision in The Lady of May.
3. Write on false representations of the past in The Spanish Tragedy.
4. In any two plays from Hilary and Trinity term of this course discuss one of the following topics: the rise of the middle-class; female empowerment; the supernatural; madness.
5. In The Duchess of Malfi the Duchess’ downfall is caused by her placing private desire above public interest. Discuss.
6. How is the conventional good/evil dichotomy interrogated in King Lear?
7. Time is the greatest antagonist in Dr Faustus. Discuss.
8. Write on representations of Elsinore in Hamlet. How does the setting inform our reading of the play?
9. Discuss Ibsen’s analysis of social relationships in A Doll’s House in terms of one of the following: obligatory silences; escapism; or bondage.
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