History of World and Czech Theatre 5

Tutor:

Jana PILÁTOVÁ

Synopsis:

Lectures and practicals provide the main phases of the development of Czech and world theatre as well as the changes in the theatre language from the beginning to the present.

Prerequisites:

At least a middle-school knowledge of the history of literature and the arts,

Independent study of literature,

Reading of drama texts,

Attendance of theatre performances,

active participation in practicals.

Study Objectives:

Introduction to the main phases of the theatre arts particularly in relationship to the changes in the theatre language and function.

To develop perception skills towards drama texts and theatre language based on analysis of plays and interpretation of video recordings of theatre productions.

Outline and Syllabus:

Origin and basis of the theatre.

Theatre of the Antiquity; changes in the theatre, its types and functions, sources of later inspiration.

Theatre festivals: organization, the audience, space, actors, music and dance, costumes, make-up; Helenistic and Roman theatre; today's staging of the antiquity.

Medieval theatre and drama; Carneval, folk culture and theatre.

Types of Italian theatre and drama starting from the Renaissance; theatre space, stage design.

English theatre and drama; professional theatre; Shakespeare.

Spanish theatre and drama; religious and educational theatre, the Baroque.

French theatre and drama 1500-1800; origin, length and changes in style.

German theatre and drama and their reforms; the phenomenon of national theatres; (the function of the Dramaturgist).

European theatre and drama from 1800 to the beginning of modern theatre; Artistic vs. popular theatre (from Romanticism to Realism). Forms of realistic drama; Illusion theatre.

Great theatre reforms (from Wagner to Modernism); new drama and staging theatre. New expressive media, the theatre artist, director; Illusion and anti-Illusion theatre.

Interwar and postwar years of European theatre. The Avant garde, Epic theatre, existentialism and absurd drama.

Type of theatre reform; new social relationships, repertoire and alternative theatre.

Changes in acting and directing in the 20th Century; Stanislawsky, Mejerchold, Brecht, Grotowski (and others).

Study materials:

BRAUN, Kazimierz

1979 Druga reforma teatru?; přel. Jiří Vondráček, Druhá divadelní reforma? (Praha: Divadelní ústav-Městská knihovna-AMU-JAMU, 1993)

BROOK, Peter

1968 The Empty Space; přel. Alois Bejblík, Prázdný prostor (Praha: Panorama, 1988)

1987 The Shifting Point; přel. Jan Hančil, Pohyblivý bod (Praha: Nakladatelství Studia Ypsilon, 1996)

BROCKETT, Oscar G.

1968, 1999 History of the Theatre; přel. Milan Lukeš a Zdena Benešová, Dějiny divadla (Praha: Nakladatelství Lidové noviny-Divadelní ústav, 1999)

CÍSAŘ, Jan

1990 Vývoj divadelního jazyka (České Budějovice: KKS)

2004 Přehled dějin českého divadla. I. Od počátků do roku 1862 (Praha: AMU)

2004 Přehled dějin českého divadla. II. Od roku 1862 do roku 1945 (Praha: AMU)

ČERNÝ, František (ed.)

1968-1983 Dějiny českého divadla I, II, III, IV (Praha: Academia)

HYVNAR, Jan

2000 Herec v moderním divadle (Praha: Pražská scéna)

PAVIS, Patrice

1996 Dictionnaire du Théâtre; přel. Daniela Jobertová, Divadelní slovník (Slovník divadelních pojmů) (Praha: Divadelní ústav, 2003)

SCHERHAUFER, Peter

1998 Čítanka z dejín divadelnej réžie od Goetheho a Schillera po Reinharta (Bratislava: NDC)

1998 Čítanka z dejín divadelnej réžie od neandertálca po Mainingenčanov (Bratislava: NDC)

1999 Čítanka z dejín divadelnej réžie. III. diel - od Marinettiho po Ejzenštejna (Bratislava: Divadelný ústav)

STEHLÍKOVÁ, Eva

2005 Antické divadlo (Praha: Univerzita Karlova)

Note:

Schedule for winter semester 2009/2010:

The schedule has not yet been prepared

Schedule for summer semester 2009/2010:

The schedule has not yet been prepared

The subject is a part of the following study plans:

• Doporučený bakalářský dramatická výchova - komb. (subject determining qualification)