The final exam is in the form of an interview on the critical texts listed in the bibliography and on the content of the lectures.
Any candidate sitting the oral exam will be assessed on the basis of the following themes:
- synthesis of the course programme, as distilled from the compulsory and further readings;
- biographical profiles of eight authors and their main works, to be selected by the candidate from among those illustrated during the lectures
(inter alia, personal biographies and authors' poetics, plots, dramatic forms, and historical background of the works performed, where applicable);
- stage and architectural settings.
As regards to the dramaturgical texts (all of which will be discussed in class), candidates shall pay due reference to any authoritative, annotated edition, endowed with a preface.