UGC NET Paper 2 — English
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Arrange the following plays by Shakespeare in order of their production/publication. A. Twelfth Night B. The Taming of the Shrew C. Much Ado About Nothing D. Romeo and Juliet E. Th...
Match List-I with List-II: List-I (Lines) A. One day I wrote her name upon the strand/ But came the waves and washed it away B. Under the greenwood tree/ Who loves to lie with me,/...
Which one of the following is not a screen adaptation of Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors?
Identify the text from which the following lines have been taken. "Therefore compare we the poet with the historian and with the moral philosopher; and if he beyond them both, no o...
Given below are two statements: one is labelled as Assertion A and the other is labelled as Reason R Assertion A: Sidney's Apologie for Poetrie is in many ways a seminal text of li...
Given below are two statements: one is labelled as Assertion A and the other is labelled as Reason R Assertion A: Sidney's Apologie for Poetrie is in many ways a seminal text of li...
Who among the following, after watching the performance of William Shakespeare's play, A Midsummer Night's Dream, observed that "it is the most insipid, ridiculous play that I ever...
Name the playwright who wrote the play Epicene, or the Silent Woman?
Name the playwright who composed the play A Woman Killed with Kindness.
The theological treatise Ecclesiastical Polity was written by
Francis Bacon's The Advancement of Learning attempted to draw a distinction between two kinds of 'truth'. Which are these?
Which of the following plays of William Shakespeare was translated into Bengali and directed by Girish Chandra Ghosh.
"A Valediction Forbidding Mourning" is written by
Which of the following are the plays written by Robert Greene? A) The Famous Chronicle of King Edward the First B) Alphonsus C) A Moon for the Misbegotten D) The Old Wives' Tale E)...
Identify the correct ones among the following: A) The Apologie for Poetrie was written by Sir Philip Sidney. B) Sir Philip Sidney wrote the Apologie for Poetrie as a counterblast t...
Which of the following are written by George Peele?
Match List I with List II LIST I A) Come what come may, Time and the hour runs through the roughest day. B) When sorrows come, they come LIST II I. Othello II. King Lear
Match List I with List II LIST I A) Some are born great, others achieve greatness. B) Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind L...
Choose the correct answer from the options given below: C) III deeds is doubled with an evil word D) We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a...
Arrange the following poets in accordance with their years of birth. A) George Herbert B) Edmund Spenser C) Philip Sidney D) John Donne E) Oliver Goldsmith