BEGC-104 · June 2025 · English
IGNOU BEGC-104 June 2025 Previous Year Question Paper
BRITISH POETRY AND DRAMA (14TH–17TH CENTURY)
Structured previous year question paper for BEGC-104, June 2025 session.
Max marks: 100 · Questions: 3 · Sections: 3
Verified: 5 Aug 2026
B. A. (HONOURS) ENGLISH
(CBCS) (BAEGH)
Term-End Examination
June, 2025
BEGC-104 : BRITISH POETRY AND DRAMA
(14TH TO 17TH CENTURY)
Time : 3 Hours Maximum Marks : 100
Note : Answer all questions.
Section—A
Q1.Write short notes on any two of the following : 2×10=20
(a) Chaucer’s Humanism [ 2 ] BEGC–104
(b) Courtly love sonnet
(c) Lady Macbeth
(d) Good Angel and Evil Angel in Dr. Faustus
Section—B
Q2.Explain with reference to context any two of the following : 2×10=20
(a) In slaying him that would live gladly yours ? Make peace therefore, and graunte me timely grace, That al my wound would heale in little space.
(b) When in eternal li nes to time thou grow’st : So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this give s life to thee. [ 3 ] BEGC–104
(c) Thou seyest, right as w ormesshende a tree, Right so a wyfdestroyeth hire housebonde, This know e they that been to wives bonde.
(d) Stay, you imperfect speakers, tell me more By Sinel’s death I know I am thane of glamis; But how of cawdor ? The than e of cawdor lives.
Section—C
Q3.Answer any three of the following questions in about 400 words each : 3×20=60
(a) Critically analyse the Banquet scene in the play Macbeth.
(b) Write a critical note on Donne’s poetic sensibility. [ 4 ] BEGC–104
(c) Discuss the wife as interpreter in The Wife of Bath’s Prologue.
(d) Discuss the themes in the play Dr. Faustus.
(e) Critically analyse Sonnet 75.