GCE
English Literature
H472/01: Drama and poetry pre-1900
*9905199638*
A Level
INSTRUCTIONS
• Use black ink.
• Write your answer to each question in the Answer Booklet. The question numbers must
be clearly shown.
• Fill in the boxes on the front of the Answer Booklet.
• Answer one question in Section 1 and one in Section 2.
• All questions in Section 1 have two parts, (a) and (b). Answer both parts of the question
on the text you have studied.
• Answer one question on the texts you have studied in Section 2.
INFORMATION
• The total mark for this paper is 60.
• The marks for each question are shown in brackets [ ].
• This document has 20 pages.
ADVICE
• Read each question carefully before you start your answer.
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Section 1 – Shakespeare Question Page
Coriolanus 1 4
Hamlet 2 6
Measure for Measure 3 8
Richard III 4 10
The Tempest 5 12
Twelfth Night 6 14
Section 2 – Drama and Poetry pre-1900 Questions Page
Questions for all text combinations 7–12 16
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Section 1 – Shakespeare
Coriolanus
Hamlet
Measure for Measure
Richard III
The
Tempest
Twelfth
Night
Answer one question from this section. You must answer both parts (a) and (b).
You should spend about 1 hour and 15 minutes on this section.
1 Coriolanus
Answer both parts (a) and (b).
(a) Discuss the following passage from Act 1 Scene 6, exploring Shakespeare’s use of
language and
dramatic effects.
MARCIUS Come I too late?
COMINIUS Ay, if you come not in the blood of others,
But mantled in your own.
MARCIUS O! let me clip ye
In arms as sound as when I woo’d, in heart
As merry as when our nuptial day was done,
And tapers burn’d to bedward.
COMINIUS Flower of warriors,
How is’t with Titus Lartius?
MARCIUS As with a man busied about decrees:
Condemning some to death, and some to exile;
Ransoming him or pitying, threat’ning th’other;
Holding Corioli in the name of Rome
Even like a fawning greyhound in the leash,
To let him slip at will.
COMINIUS Where is that slave
Which told me they had beat you to your trenches?
Where is he? Call him hither.
MARCIUS Let him alone;
He did inform the truth. But for our gentlemen,
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The common file—a plague! tribunes for them!
The mouse ne’er shunn’d the cat as they did budge
From rascals worse than they.
COMINIUS But how prevail’d you?
MARCIUS Will the time serve to tell? I do not think.
Where is the enemy? Are you lords o’ th’ field?
If not, why cease you till you are so?
COMINIUS Marcius,
We have at disadvantage fought and did
Retire to win our purpose.
MARCIUS How lies their battle? Know you on which side
They have plac’d their men of trust?
COMINIUS As I guess, Marcius,
Their bands i’ th’ vaward are the Antiates,
Of their best trust; o’er them Aufidius,
Their very heart of hope.
MARCIUS I do beseech you,
By all the battles wherein we have fought,
By th’ blood we have shed together, by th’ vows
We have made to endure friends, that you directly 4
Set me against Aufidius and his Antiates; 0
And that you not delay the present, but,
Filling the air with swords advanc’d and
darts, We prove this very hour.
COMINIUS Though I could wish
You were conducted to a gentle bath 4
And balms applied to you, yet dare I never 5
Deny your asking: take your choice of those
That best can aid your action.
MARCIUS Those are they
That most are willing. If any such be here—
As it were sin to doubt—that love this painting 5
Wherein you see me smear’d; if any fear 0
Lesser his person than an ill report;
If any think brave death outweighs bad life
And that his country’s dearer than himself;
Let him alone, or so many so minded,
Wave thus to express his disposition, 5
And follow Marcius. 5
[They all shout and wave their swords, take him up in their arms and cast up their caps.
O, me alone! Make you a sword of me?
If these shows be not outward, which of you
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English Literature
H472/01: Drama and poetry pre-1900
*9905199638*
A Level
INSTRUCTIONS
• Use black ink.
• Write your answer to each question in the Answer Booklet. The question numbers must
be clearly shown.
• Fill in the boxes on the front of the Answer Booklet.
• Answer one question in Section 1 and one in Section 2.
• All questions in Section 1 have two parts, (a) and (b). Answer both parts of the question
on the text you have studied.
• Answer one question on the texts you have studied in Section 2.
INFORMATION
• The total mark for this paper is 60.
• The marks for each question are shown in brackets [ ].
• This document has 20 pages.
ADVICE
• Read each question carefully before you start your answer.
© OCR 2024 [601/4725/8] DC (EF) 319623/3
OCR is an exempt Charity
Turn over
BLANK PAGE
, 2
Section 1 – Shakespeare Question Page
Coriolanus 1 4
Hamlet 2 6
Measure for Measure 3 8
Richard III 4 10
The Tempest 5 12
Twelfth Night 6 14
Section 2 – Drama and Poetry pre-1900 Questions Page
Questions for all text combinations 7–12 16
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Section 1 – Shakespeare
Coriolanus
Hamlet
Measure for Measure
Richard III
The
Tempest
Twelfth
Night
Answer one question from this section. You must answer both parts (a) and (b).
You should spend about 1 hour and 15 minutes on this section.
1 Coriolanus
Answer both parts (a) and (b).
(a) Discuss the following passage from Act 1 Scene 6, exploring Shakespeare’s use of
language and
dramatic effects.
MARCIUS Come I too late?
COMINIUS Ay, if you come not in the blood of others,
But mantled in your own.
MARCIUS O! let me clip ye
In arms as sound as when I woo’d, in heart
As merry as when our nuptial day was done,
And tapers burn’d to bedward.
COMINIUS Flower of warriors,
How is’t with Titus Lartius?
MARCIUS As with a man busied about decrees:
Condemning some to death, and some to exile;
Ransoming him or pitying, threat’ning th’other;
Holding Corioli in the name of Rome
Even like a fawning greyhound in the leash,
To let him slip at will.
COMINIUS Where is that slave
Which told me they had beat you to your trenches?
Where is he? Call him hither.
MARCIUS Let him alone;
He did inform the truth. But for our gentlemen,
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The common file—a plague! tribunes for them!
The mouse ne’er shunn’d the cat as they did budge
From rascals worse than they.
COMINIUS But how prevail’d you?
MARCIUS Will the time serve to tell? I do not think.
Where is the enemy? Are you lords o’ th’ field?
If not, why cease you till you are so?
COMINIUS Marcius,
We have at disadvantage fought and did
Retire to win our purpose.
MARCIUS How lies their battle? Know you on which side
They have plac’d their men of trust?
COMINIUS As I guess, Marcius,
Their bands i’ th’ vaward are the Antiates,
Of their best trust; o’er them Aufidius,
Their very heart of hope.
MARCIUS I do beseech you,
By all the battles wherein we have fought,
By th’ blood we have shed together, by th’ vows
We have made to endure friends, that you directly 4
Set me against Aufidius and his Antiates; 0
And that you not delay the present, but,
Filling the air with swords advanc’d and
darts, We prove this very hour.
COMINIUS Though I could wish
You were conducted to a gentle bath 4
And balms applied to you, yet dare I never 5
Deny your asking: take your choice of those
That best can aid your action.
MARCIUS Those are they
That most are willing. If any such be here—
As it were sin to doubt—that love this painting 5
Wherein you see me smear’d; if any fear 0
Lesser his person than an ill report;
If any think brave death outweighs bad life
And that his country’s dearer than himself;
Let him alone, or so many so minded,
Wave thus to express his disposition, 5
And follow Marcius. 5
[They all shout and wave their swords, take him up in their arms and cast up their caps.
O, me alone! Make you a sword of me?
If these shows be not outward, which of you
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