Ancient and French Classical Tragedy

The examination paper has three sections, and candidates must answer one question from each. The first contains a compulsory comparative commentary; the second has questions on individual dramatists; the third has questions relating to stagecraft, genre, technique or theme, requiring a comparative approach.

Prescribed texts:

For the compulsory commentary question:

either (i) Seneca, Phaedra and Racine, Phèdre
or (ii) Euripides, Medea and Corneille, Médée

For essay questions:

Aeschylus, Agamemnon
Sophocles, Oedipus the King
Euripides, Hippolytus , Andromache , The Phoenician Women , Iphigenia at Aulis
Seneca, Medea
Corneille, Discours , Horace , Oedipe , Suréna
Racine, La Thébaïde , Andromaque , Iphigénie .

Those offering Latin would read the Greek texts in translation, and vice versa .