The exam

Due date: TBA

Value: 35% of your final grade

There will be a final exam for the course.

To encourage you to read, remember, and think about the plays.
To encourage you to relate them to the culture of Shakespeare's time, and our own.
To encourage you to pay close attention to Shakespeare's language.

You may bring your text(s) and one page of notes to the exam.
The duration of the exam will be three hours, with an additional ten minutes of time to read the paper and plan your answers.
You will be asked to answer four questions on this exam.
One will ask for a detailed discussion of a passage from one of the plays (about 20 lines in length).
The remaining three questions will be essay-type questions inviting responses to the plays, to performances of them, and to the background readings associated with the course.
One question will require a comparison between two plays.
You will have a choice of questions.