OBJECTIVE QUESTIONS FOR NET EXAMS - ENGLISH

Objective type questions for june 2012 according to literary terms by MH Abrams.

The Theatre of the Absurd

·         Ubu the King was written by Alfred Jarry (1896)

·         The Trial, Metamorphoses are written by Franz Kafka.

·         Absurd Literature as a movement emerged in France during the II world war.

·         It was a rebellion against essential beliefs and values of traditional culture.

·         Jean Paul Sartre and Albert Camus are existential philosophers.

·         The Myth of Sysiphus was written by Albert Camus in the year 1942.

·         The French author of “The Bald Suprano” (1949) and “The Lesson” (1951) is Eugene Ionesco.

·         “Man is lost” in the present day world is famous comment by Eugene Ionesco.

·         Samuel Becket was an Irish man.

·         Samuel Becket wrote in French and translated to English many of his works.

·         Waiting for Godot written by Becket was published in the year 1954.

·         End Game and Malone dies (Becket’s Prose work) was written during the year 1958.

·         Absurd dramatic form rejected: Realistic setting, Logical reasoning and Coherently evolving plot.

·         ”Nothing Happens, Nobody comes, Nobody goes. Its Awful” isa famous line from the play Waiting for Godot.

·         The two Tramps in Waiting for Godot is Vladimir (Didi) and Estragon (gogo).

·         The Unnameable is a prose fiction written by Samuel Becket during the year 1960.

·         Malone dies and the unnameable represents antihero concept.

·         Jean Genet combined absurdism and diabolism

·         Harold Pinter is an Englishman whereas Albee is an American.

·         “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead” is a famous play written by Tom Stoppard in the year 1966.

·         Travesties (1974) written by Tom Stoppard.

·         Black Comedy is also a tragic Farce.

·         Some major works of black comedy are :

Ø  Catch 22 by Joseph Heller (1961)

Ø  V by Thomas Pynchon (1963)

Ø  The World According to Garp by John Irving (1978)

Ø  Dr. Strange love is a black comedy cinema written by Stanley Kubric.

·         "Largo Desolato” was written by the Czech writer Vaclav Havel in the year 1987.

·         “The Island” (1973) is a collaborative work by South African writers Athol Fugard, John Kani, Winston Nishona.

·         Some other famous works:

Ø  The Theatre of the Absurd (1966) (word coined also) by Martin Esslin.

Ø  The Blasphemers: The heater of Brecht, Ionesco, Becket and Genet (1965) is written by David Grossvogel.

Ø  The absurd (1969) by Arnold P. Hinchcliffe.

Ø  Black Humor Fiction of the sixties (1980) is written by Max F. Schultz.

Ø  Around the absurd essays on Modern and Postmodern drama (1990) edited by Ruby Cohn and Enoch Brates.

ACT:

·         Acts in a play were introduced by the Elizabethan writers in English Literature.

·         They copied it from Ancient Roman Plays which had 5 acts.

·         Anton Chekhov and Henry Ibsen made it into four Acts. Modern Plays have ranging from one to as much as five.

·         Proscenium arch frames the front of the stage.