Take Home Final Exam
Due Thursday, December 19th by 1.30p. Worth 20% of the final grade.
Sophocles, Oedipus the King
Wole Soyinka, Death and the King’s Horseman
Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie
Euripides, Medea
Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
Anton Chekhov, The Seagull
Bertolt Brecht, The Good Woman of Setzuan
William Shakespeare, A Winter’s Tale
Sophie Treadwell, Machinal
Griselda Gambaro, Personal Effects
Samuel Beckett, Rockaby
William Shakespeare, A Winter’s Tale
Zeami, Komachi at Sekidera
Yukio Mishima, Sotoba Komachi
Heiner Müller, Medeaplay
Split Britches/Bloolips, Belle Reprieve
Half Straddle, Seagull (Thinking of You)
Choose two of the following prompts and write two essays of at least five paragraphs each in response. Each essay should be 750 -1,000 words long. You may use each play from the above list only once in your exam. You should cite from the play and/or the SGPA, but you should not use any additional sources.
1. Choose three of the plays from the above list and analyze them in terms of their structure. Come up with a thesis that incorporates all three plays and makes an argument about the relationship between their structure and their meaning.
2. Choose three characters from the plays listed above and analyze them in terms of their functional aspect (see p. 70 of the SGPA) and/or their connotative or symbolic aspect (see p. 75 – 77 of the SGPA). Come up with a thesis that incorporates all three characters and makes an argument about how the playwrights use the characters to help convey the plays’ themes.
3. Choose three passages from one of the plays to analyze in terms of language. Come up with a thesis about the use of language in the play and cite three passages from the play to demonstrate your argument.
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