Midterm 2, Wed. April 24,2002                              213/51           SURVEY of DRAMA                                            

 Answer   TWO                       questions.

QUESTION A :

 Define the following in detail with examples : Cycle Plays  in Medieval Drama ,  kinds  of Stage in Renaissance England , and  the Heroes  at the endings of Oedipus The King  and  Pygmalion   .

QUESTION B :

Identify the following  two quotations  :

1. “ Speak to me./ If there be any good thing to be done ,. …For which , they say, you spirits oft walk in death ,….”

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2.“ I’d never have come to / this,/ my father’s murderer – never been branded / mother’s husband , all men see me now !…”

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Who are the speakers and listeners ? What are the situations - topics of discussions?  In which parts of the  plots (  Rising Actions , Climaxes , or others ) do these quotes take place ? Explain in detail .

QUESTION C:   

Analyze  how the beginning of Ibsen’s A Doll’s House and the ending of  Shaw’s Pygmalion  show the writers’ distrust of socially accepted norms , conventions or traditions . Use this distrust to show the dramatists’ outlooks to their own societies and worlds.