8. PAPER VI - HISTORY OF ENGLISH LITEREATURE FROM 1550 -1750

QUESTION BANK FOR HISTORY
1) What are the salient characteristics of the Elizabethan Age? / Comment at length on the social, religious and literary tendencies of the Elizabethan age. (B,A, SP 05, 07,
2) Write a detailed note on the salient features of the Renaissance. (SP 06) / Define “Renaissance” and comment on the various features of the Renaissance. (SP 08)
3) Explain the term “Classicism” as applied to the literature of the Neo-classical age and discuss in detail the major tendencies of the Neo-classical age. (SP 08)
4) Write a detailed note on the literary characteristics of the Restoration Age. / Write a detailed note on the social, political and literary tendencies of the Restoration Age. (A, B, N)
5) Write a detailed note on the contribution of the Jacobean dramatists. (N, SP 06)
6) What is the contribution of University Wits in Pre Shakespearean Drama? / Who are the “University Wits”? What are the literary features common in their works? List their important works. (B, SP 05, 07)

SHORT NOTES:
1. Ben Johnson as a dramatist of comedy (A, SP 06)
2. Edmund Spenser (B, SP 05, 07, 08)
3. John Webster (N, SP 06)
4. Samuel Richardson (N, SP 05, 06, 07)
5. The Reformation (A, B, SP 08)
6. Joseph Addison (N, A, SP 05)
7. Henry Fielding (SP 08)
8. Richard Steele (SP 07)
9. William Congreve (SP 08)