Interpretační seminář 3

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Michaela RAISOVÁ

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Martin PŠENIČKA, Michaela RAISOVÁ

Katedra

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Interpretation Seminar Syllabus (Winter Semester 2026-27): we start 12. 10. 2026

Lecturers: doc. Mgr. MgA. Mish Rais, PhD. and doc. Mgr. Martin Pšenička, PhD.

Modern and Contemporary Anglophone Drama

Monday: 11:30-13:00

Room: R407 (DAMU, Karlova 26)

In the winter semester, we will read texts from modern and contemporary Irish, British, Canadian and American drama. The seminar seeks to engage the students in close and interpretative reading of dramatic texts, with particular focus on intertextuality, meta-theatricality and various topics such as identity, gender, politics and language. The seminar will touch on theatre as a topic on its own, while engaging with comparisons to various adaptations (theatre, film, comics, pop culture etc.) and ways of characterization. Topics will also adapt according to students and their inputs (cultural background, previous studies and experience, interests etc.). The aim is to cultivate precise reading and interpretation, critical thinking and ability to work with secondary material into oral presentation of a topic strengthened by arguments based on close reading of primary literature and secondary literature.

Key words: Intertextuality, modern and post-modern plays, coolness drama, in-yer-face theatre, comparative reading, original works reinvented, national identity, gender, representation of sex and violence on the stage, language, feminism, colonialism and post-colonial theories.

Assessment: Attendance 80% and active engagement is required. Students are asked to read plays for each class and present 3-5min their own reading of the material. Every class, students prepare short oral presentations based on secondary literature.

During the final session in December all students are required to prepare a 15 minute oral presentation. The presentation must focus on plays and/or adaptations discussed in the seminar and should incorporate secondary sources to support arguments. Second year MA students are also required to hand a written essay using secondary sources at the end of the winter semester. Scope of the essay is 3000 words, the deadline is in January, to be specified in the seminar. BA students hand in a written essay at the end of the summer semester.

Harmonogram of the seminar:

12.10./Mish Rais/ intro to the seminar and J. M. Synge: Playboy of the Western World

Pilný, Ondřej. Irony and Identity in Modern Irish Drama. Praha: Litteraria Pragensia, 2006.

S. Sontag “Against Interpretation”, R. Barthes “The Death of the Author”

19.10./Martin Pšenička/ Sam Shepard: True West

Secondary literature TBS

26.10./Mish Rais/ Martin McDonagh: The Lonesome West

Roche, Anthony. Contemporary Irish Drama. Palgrave, 2009

Lonergan, Patrick. The Theatre and Films of Martin McDonagh. London: Methuen, 2012.

2.11./Mish Rais/ Marina Carr: By the Bog of Cats + Medea (Euripides)

M. Procházka: Feminism and Psychoanalitical Criticism (pdf)

Euripides: Medea

Roche, Anthony. Contemporary Irish Drama. Palgrave, 2009.

9.11./M. Pšenička/ Brad Fraser: Unidentified Human Remains and the True Nature Love

Secondary literature TBS

16.11./ DEAN’S FREE DAY – NO SCHOOL

23.11./ Martin Pšenička/ Djanet Sears: Harlem Duet

Secondary literature TBS

30.11./ Martin Pšenička/ Hannah Moscovitch: Post-Democracy

Secondary literature TBS

7.12./ Mish Rais/ Sarah Kane: Phaedra´s Love + Seneca: Phaedra

Aleks Sierz: In-Yer-Face Theatre: British Drama Today (introductory chapter)

(Seneca’s play in: A Treasury of the Theatre: An Anthology of Great Plays from Aeschylus to Eugene O'Neill)

Saunders, Graham. Love Me or Kill me: Sarah Kane and the Theatre of Extremes

Ken Urban: Towards a Theory of Cruel Britannia: Coolness, Cruelty, and the 'Nineties

14.12. and 8.1. (11-12:30) Mish Rais + Martin Pšenička //Student Presentations

Výsledky učení

Naučit studenty pozornému čtení, učinit čtení životní potřebou, tj. prokázat jeho smysluplnost. A vzhledem k zaměření studia vychovat ke čtení dramatické literatury.

Dramatický text není součtem všech replik a scénických poznámek. Číst jej znamená dešifrovat jeho strukturu. Interpretační seminář učí tomuto specifickému způsobu čtení. Zároveň přitom ukazuje, jak se struktura dramatického (dnes čím dál častěji spíše postdramatického) textu v dějinách divadla proměňovala.

Předpoklady a další požadavky

Nejsou.

Literatura

Huizinga, Johan. Homo Ludens: A Study of the Play-Element in Culture. Mansfield Centre, CT: Martino Publishing, 2014 [1950].

Esslin, Martin. The Theatre of the Absurd. London: Methuen, 2001.

Aristotle. Poetics. Mineola: Dover Publications, 1997.

Kott, Jan. Shakespeare Our Contemporary. Translated by Boleslaw Taborski. London: Methuen, 1967.

De Garcia, Magreta and Wells, Stanley, eds. The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001.

Sontag, Susan. Esej „Against Interpretation“ distribuována jako tištěný materiál v hodině.

Barthes, Roland. „The Death of the Author“ In Image, Music, Text. Translated by Stephan Heath. New York: Hill and Want, 1978.

Selected plays by William Shakespeare (King Lear, The Merchant of Venice, Hamlet, Richard III., Coriolanus, Midsummer Night‘s Dream, Macbeth, Othello, Romeo a Julie, Measure for Measure, The Tempest and other, depending on the group focus).

Selected plays by Tom Stoppard, J. M. Synge, Samuel Beckett, Harold Pinter, Marina Carr, Martin McDonagh, Patrick Marber, Sarah Kane, Joe Penhall, Edward Albee, Sam Shepard, David Mamet and other playwrights according to group’s interest.

Další doprovodné texty jsou distribuovány a doporučeny v hodinách na základě zaměření a potřeb skupiny.

Hodnoticí metody a kritéria

V polovině školního roku zápočet, na závěr zkouška. V hodnocení se kromě účasti a projevu studenta během celého semináře přihlíží ke schopnosti formulovat zvolené téma při závěrečném kolokviu a průběžných prezentacích. V zimním semestru student odevzdává písemnou práci na zvolené téma na základě četby.

Assessment: Attendance of at least 80%. Following the assigned reading (both primary and secondary texts!). Participating in discussion. An in-class 5-10 min. spoken presentation of a selected secondary text.

During the final session (kolokvia) in December all students are required to prepare a 15minute spoken presentation. The presentation must focus solely on plays and/or adaptations discussed in the seminar and should incorporate secondary sources to support arguments. The student may use text suggested throughout the seminar or other appropriate sources. MA students are also in addition required to hand a written essay using secondary sources. Scope of the essay is 2500 words, the deadline is in January, to be specified in the seminar.

Poznámka

Reading (the order of the sessions and reading is subject to change):

1)Intro + J. M. Synge: Playboy of the Western World (pdf/ DAMU library)

Susan Sontag, Against Interpretation (pdf) Roland Barthes, The Death of the Author (pdf)

Pilný, Ondřej. Irony and Identity in Modern Irish Drama. Praha: Litteraria Pragensia, 2006.

2)Martin McDonagh: The Lonesome West (DAMU) + Sam Shepard: True West (DAMU)

Roche, Anthony. Contemporary Irish Drama. Palgrave, 2009. (damu)

Lonergan, Patrick. The Theatre and Films of Martin McDonagh. London: Methuen, 2012.

3)Marina Carr: By the Bog of Cats + Medea

M. Procházka: Feminism and Psychoanalitical Criticism (pdf)

Euripides: Medea (damu v An Anthology of Greek drama, Roobinson, 1949, New York)

Roche, Anthony. Contemporary Irish Drama. Palgrave, 2009. (DAMU)

4)Stewart Parker + Boucicault: Heavenly Bodies (pdf)

Grene, Nicholas. The Politics of Irish Drama. Plays in Context from Boucicault to Friel. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999 (?)

Ondřej Pilný “Comedy of Terrors” (?)

5)Mark Ravenhill: Shopping and Fucking

Aleks Sierz: In-Yer-Face Theatre: British Drama Today (introductory chapter, pdf)

6)Sarah Kane: Phaedra´s Love + Seneca: Phaedra

(Seneca’s play in: A Treasury of the Theatre: An Anthology of Great Plays from Aeschylus to Eugene O'Neill) (DAMU library)

Saunders, Graham. Love Me or Kill me: Sarah Kane and the Theatre of Extremes (pdf)

Ken Urban: Towards a Theory of Cruel Britannia: Coolness, Cruelty, and the 'Nineties (pdf)

7)Tim Crouch: The Author + My Arm

Secondary Text: Ondřej Pilný: Imagine This: Tim Crouch, from The Grotesque in Contemporary Anglophone Drama (pdf)

8)David Ireland: Cyprus Avenue

Secondary Text: Clare Wallace, Commemoration, Ambivalent Attachments and Catharsis: David Ireland’s Cyprus Avenue at the Abbey Theatre in 2016 (pdf)

9)Caryl Churchill: Escaped Alone

Secondary Text: Dan Rabellatto, Of an Apocalyptic Tone Recently Adopted in Theatre: British Drama, Violence and Writing (pdf)

10)---------------Kolokvia/Presentations-------------------------

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