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EXAMENE, VERFICARI SI COLOCVII

R-E SEM II AN I
- TEMATICA EXAMEN LITERATURA ROMANA-
 TEME DE PREDAT

29 MAI- ILCE

1. My Utopia - composition
2. The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus - summary in English
and 20 unknown words (translation + phonetic transcription)
3. Solve the exercises from the fragment Faustus - Last Hour -
Analysis and Comprehension
4. Quiz - Christopher Marlowe
5. Hamlet - summary in English and 20 unknown words
(translation + phonetic transcription)
6. A Midsummer Night's Dream - summary in English and 20
unknown words (translation + phonetic transcription)
7. Volpone, or the Fox - summary in English and 20 unknown
words (translation + phonetic transcription) + Quiz
8. Sonnet 18 + Sonnet 66 - main ideas
TEME Istoria Literaturii şi Civilizaţiei Engleze an I
sem. 2

PART ONE (lectures)

The Renaissance

1. Define the cultural concept of the Renaissance, mentioning the

term’s etymology, the
historical period when the trend started and developed.
2. The Renaissance in England – main characteristics, major authors
writing during this
period, important historical events (the Reformation of the Church,
etc.)
3. Comment on the English Renaissance – contexts and conditions
(mention the most
important king/queen during whose reign the Renaissance had its
climax in England;
enumerate at least three of the major English writers during the
English Renaissance;
which literary genre was predominantly approached by English
writers?

Sir Thomas More

1. What does the term utopia mean?

2. Comment on the fragment From Utopia entitled Of Their Slaves,
and of Their Marriages

Comedies
1. Present the story line of Gammer Gurton’s Needle.
Tragedies

1. What was Seneca’s influence on Gorboduc, or Ferrex and Porrex?

What did the writers
want to stress through the above-mentioned work?

Drama from 1580 to Shakespeare

1. The flourishing of drama under Elizabeth I and James I.
2. Drama and the principle of order.
3. Actors and acting companies during the Elizabethan age.
Elizabethan theatres.

Christopher Marlowe

1. Make a portrayal of Doctor Faustus. Comment on his religious and

heathen characteristics.
2. -Give a short account of the subject matter of The Tragical History
of Doctor Faustus.

William Shakespeare
1. Comment on the different addressees of Shakespeare’s Sonnets.
2. Comment on the plot of A Midsummer’s Night’s Dream and
Shakespeare’s ideal of
“romantic comedy”.
3. Define the literary device of “play within play”. Give suitable
examples of Shakespearean
plays in which this device is used.

The Seventeenth Century

1. Enumerate some of the consequences of the opposition between the

Anglican Protestants
and the Puritans.

Puritans and Cavaliers

1. Distinguish the two English social and religious classes: Puritans

and Cavaliers. Provide
suitable distinctive elements of the two.

English drama after Shakespeare

Ben Jonson
1. Comment on Ben Jonson’s art and function of comedy.
2. Comment on Jonson’s artistic interpretation of human characters by
the four “humours”.
State the theory of humours as vied from the lines provided.
John Milton

1. Express your ideas about John Milton as a representative of the

Renaissance man.
2. Relate the subject matter of Paradise Lost comment on its theme
from a religious point of
view.
PART TWO (seminars)
 Christopher Marlowe
 The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus (plot, main characters,
themes; the Faustian
myth; the pact with the devil and its consequences)

 William Shakespeare
 Sonnet 18 (definition of the sonnet; rhyme and rhythm pattern; text
analysis)
 Sonnet 66 (definition of the sonnet; rhyme and rhythm pattern; text
analysis)
 Hamlet (as a tragedy; main characters; the characterization of
Hamlet in point of the
masques he is attributed; a Freudian approach to the play – the
Oedipus complex;
the immorality of Denmark – “Something is rotten in the state of
Denmark”;
Hamlet’s relations with women: Gertrude and Ophelia; text analysis
on Hamlet’s
soliloquy in Act III; general themes; the play within play device)
 A Midsummer Night’s Dream (as a romantic comedy; the three
realms involved;
characters; the couples of lovers; the role/function of the love-in-
idleness potion; the
play within play device)
 Shakespearean sonnets – recurring themes.
 Define the soliloquy – mention a relevant soliloquy from
Shakespeare’s tragedies.
 Define the play-within- play device - mention a relevant example
from
Shakespeare’s works.

 Ben Jonson
 Volpone, or the Fox (the comedy of humours applied to the play;
Jonson’s dramatic
theory of both entertaining and educating; main characters and their
symbolic
names; characters and their foibles; final decrees concerning the fates
of the
characters in Volpone)

 John Milton
Paradise Lost – extract from Book I (Better to Reign in Hell) –
comprehension and analysis.
Sonnet XVIII – comprehension and analysis