AD's English Literature

A Set of 26 Objective Questions & Answers UGC NET ENGLISH QUESTION BANK 1.  Which among the following statement is not logically bound by fact? (I) Malory's Le morte d'Arthur was printed by William Caxton, as he was a friend of him. (II) The growth of the middle class in the early 16 th century, the continuing development of trade, the new character and thoroughness of education for laypeople and not only clergy, the centralization of power and of much intellectual life in the court of the Tudor and Stuart monarchs, and the widening horizons of exploration gave a fundamental new impetus and direction to literature.

There is Sanskrit adage to the effect that the character of women is unknown even to the gods, not to speak of mortal men. Read More about Drama   It is not so much to place the subject beyond the omniscience of the supreme god-head but to street the infinite complexities of feminist. The great creator, the one great god who created the gods as well as the female certainly knows all the intricacies of his created universe-and so does Shakespeare, the great manipulator of his puppet dramatic universe whether the living, throbbing dolls are male or female.  Shakespeare , the marker, makes his women live according to the lights they receive from the magic lamp of their great creator. The women in Shakespeare’s plays are vivid creations, each differing from the others. It is important to remember that in Shakespeare’s time boy actors played the female parts. Actresses did not appear in a  Shakespeare an    play until after the restoration of Ch...

Platonism, the Fashion of the Renaissance Days Platonism was the fashion of the Renaissance days. Spenser has caught the fashion along with others of the time. He certainly knew some of the Plato’s works at first hand and used them.  Edmund Spenser, one of the most prominent poets of the English Renaissance, incorporated elements of Platonism in his works. Technical words of platonic philosophy frequently occur in his works, and the thought of the Greek philosopher, consciously, or unconsciously, moulds his own thoughts. Greek philosopher Plato founds the Academy in Athens. Read More about Elizabethan Literature   Plato, a student of Socrates, greatly influences Western philosophy; he believes that the ideal is more real than anything material. He is the author of the Republic , a dramatic dialogue on the nature of justice. Read More about Criticism    Italian philosopher and theologian Marsilio Ficino translates the works of Plato into Latin, a language ...

A Set of 26 Objective Questions & Answers UGC NET ENGLISH QUESTION BANK 1. Match the following: Drama Theme I. Absurd Person Singular (1973) Read More about UGC NET     a. gender and economics II. Serious Money (1987) b. a bleak future of barbarism III. Far Away (2000) c. the downfall of playwright Oscar Wilde Read More about A to Z (Objective Questions) IV. The Judas Kiss (1998) d. farcical dramas about middle-class anxieties      (I) (II) (III) (IV) (A) (d) (b) (c) (a) (B) (d) (a) (b) (c) (C) (b) (c) (d) (a) (D) (c) (a) (b) (d) 2 . Which of these authors is not a writer of African American slave narratives? (A) Solomon Northrop (B) Frederick Douglass (C) Phillis Wheatley (D) Sojourner Truth Read More about A to Z (Objective Questions) 3 . “For nature then The courser pleasures of my boyish days, And their glad...