HISTORY OF PERFORMING ARTS
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- Academic year
- 2016/2017
- Teacher
- DANIELE SERAGNOLI
- Credits
- 12
- Didactic period
- Primo Semestre
- SSD
- L-ART/05
Training objectives
- The course has the main objective to provide a general knowledge of theater culture from ancient Greece to the twentieth century. Through the analysis of different historical periods, the purpose is the acquisition of the main ideas of the theater from every era. For this we examine authors, plays, description of theatrical productions. Ultimate purpose is the acquisition of the idea of theater as a complex phenomenon and not merely literary, especially in social and anthropological.
The skills acquired through the study of matter, therefore, concern the ways in which, in history, the different elements that create the theater (literary text, scenography, playing, staging, theatrical production system, etc.), were organized to realize on stage theatre performances.
The resulting abilities can be spent in a more conscious attendance of theaters, in working at their press or marketing offices, in making properly known the operatic culture. Prerequisites
- None
Course programme
- The course is organized in two terms and occurs in the first semester of lectures (September-December 2016).
Term one – “Outlines of theater history from antiquity to the twentieth century”: using audiovisual material is traced a panorama of the scenic tradition and its main historical developments, from classical Greece to medieval scene; the rediscovery of the ancient theater in the Renaissance to the birth of national theaters of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries; the birth of the bourgeois theater in the nineteenth century; the main movements of the theater in the twentieth century.
Term two – “William Shakespeare and the Elizabethan stage”: Shakespeare's work is analyzed in its main aspects: the transformation of literary sources, the collaboration with the actors, the inclusion of new dramaturgical material, the concrete elements of the Elizabethan stage.
Students who have to obtain 12 CFU will prepare the whole program; students who have to obtain 6 CFU will only apply themselves to Term one (see bibliography). Didactic methods
- Public lectures with audiovisual exemplification, classroom discussion.
After a first cycle of classes devoted to general elements, the course proceeds by examining some of the works of William Shakespeare of which the dramaturgical elements will be analyzed, the historical context of their stagings, the theater's material conditions in the Elizabethan period. For these analyzes is provided the vision of staged theatrical modern or their film adaptation. Learning assessment procedures
- Oral exam: the student must answer at least three questions, through which - making use of the discussions that took place during the course - he must demonstrate on the one hand the acquisition of historical notions, on the other hand a critical capacity in the knowledge of matter (through key-questions, for example “as it was organized the theater in ancient Greece "," when and why comes the comedy of art "," like a Shakespeare play is structured ", etc.).
Normally, the teacher asks at first instance that the student speaks of a topic of his/her choice, bordered and not too general. Then he goes on to ask for a second argument, with equal width and depth . A further question of a third argument, but of more limited and punctual type, usually ends the exam. Reference texts
- Term 1. "Outlines of theater history from antiquity to the twentieth century"
Attending students:
R. Alonge, Nuovo manuale di storia del teatro. Fantasmi della scena d’Occidente, Torino, UTET Libreria, 2008 o edizione successiva (capitoli 1-14)
Non-attending students:
- AUTORI VARI, Breve storia del teatro per immagini, Roma, Carocci, 2015
Term 2. “William Shakespeare and the Elizabethan stage”:
- Materiali sul teatro elisabettiano (dossier, capitoli 1 e 5 del volume "Il teatro elisabettiano" a cura di L. Innocenti, 1994, c/o Copylab, Ferrara)
- G. Melchiori, Shakespeare. Genesi e struttura delle opere, Bari, Laterza (Introduzione; Parte prima: Il primo Shakespeare – capitoli 2, 3 (solo paragrafo 1 “Sir Thomas More”) 4 e 5; Parte terza: I Chamberlain’s Men – capitoli 2, 3 e 4 (solo paragrafo 1 “Hamlet. Prince of Denmark”); Parte quarta: I King’s Men – capitolo 1; Parte quinta: Il Blackfriars – capitoli 1 e 2.
- Reading at least three works of Shakespeare (any edition) chosen from:
The Taming of the Shrew, The Comedy of Errors, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Romeo and Juliet, The Merchant of Venice, Twelfth Night, or what you will, Julius Caesar, Hamlet Prince of Denmark, Othello the Moor of Venice, Macbeth, The Tempest, Henry VIII
