Theories of Drama 2

Subject guarantor:

Michal BREGANT

Name of lecturer(s):

Michal BREGANT

Learning outcomes of the course unit:

Students are acquainted with some of the influential methods of thought about drama (and literature in general). In a wider context, the intellectual tendencies of the 20th century, students learn to consider structured and dynamic dramas, and to analyse a piece as a complex structure of communication links. Similar to the Drama Theory 1 course, this is about „theories“, rather than a course presenting a single theory, a collection of various types of samples of thought on drama.

Mode of study:

Prerequisites and co-requisites:

This course is a continuation of Theories of Drama 1 whose completion is strongly recommended.

Recommended optional programme components:

Course contents:

Course:

1. (6.10) Drama reforms and theatre at the turn of the 19th to 20th century.

2. (13.10) Drama and symbol theory.

3. (20.10) Russian formalism

4. (27.10) Zich and the concept of theatre art.

Reading: Zich, pgs. 36-56

5. (3.11.) Prague Structuralism

Reading: Veltrusky a+b

6. (10.11) First test (attendance required)

Properties of a drama text

7. (24.11) Communication models and situations

8. (1.12) Possible worlds (drama)

9. (8.12) Realism as a code or style?

10. (15.12) Post-structuralism

Recommended or required reading:

Required:

Otakar Zich: Estetika dramatického umění. Panorama, Praha 1987, [s. 35-271].

Jiří Veltruský: a) Dramatický text jako součást divadla; b) Drama jako literární dílo a divadelní představení. Obojí in: J. Veltruský: Příspěvky k teorii divadla. Divadelní ústav, Praha 1994, s. 77-101.

Miroslav Procházka: Znaky dramatu a divadla. Panorama, Praha 1988, zejm. s. 11-76, 242-275

Required dramas:

Alois a Vilém Mrštíkové: Maryša

Anton Pavlovič Čechov: Racek

Eugene Ionesco: Plešatá zpěvačka

Recommended:

Keir Elam: The Semiotics of Theatre and Drama. Methuen & Co., 1980.

Ivo Osolsobě: Mnoho povyku pro sémiotiku. Nakladatelství G, 1992

Miroslav Petříček (ed.): Myšlení o divadle II. Hermann a synové, Praha 1993.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods:

Assessment methods and criteria:

Course web page:

Note:

Further information:

This course is an elective for all AMU students

Schedule for winter semester 2012/2013:

	06:00–08:0008:00–10:0010:00–12:0012:00–14:0014:00–16:0016:00–18:0018:00–20:0020:00–22:0022:00–24:00
Mon
Tue
Fri
Thu	místnost 344 Učebna 7 (Lažanský palác) BREGANT M. 14:00–15:35 (přednášková par. 1)
Fri

Date	Day	Time	Tutor	Location	Notes	No. of paralel
	Thu	14:00–15:35	BREGANT M.	Učebna 7 Lažanský palác		přednášková par. 1

Schedule for summer semester 2012/2013:

The schedule has not yet been prepared

The subject is a part of the following study plans:

• Animovaná tvorba - bakalář (faculty subject, optional subject)
• Dokumentární tvorba - magistr (optional subject)
• Dokumentární tvorba - bakalář (faculty subject, optional subject)
• Animovaná tvorba - magistr (optional subject)
• Scenáristika a dramaturgie - bakalář (qualification subject, faculty subject, optional subject)
• Scenáristika a dramaturgie - magistr (optional subject)
• Režie - bakalář (qualification subject, faculty subject, optional subject)
• Režie - magistr (optional subject)
• Kamera - bakalář (faculty subject, optional subject)
• Kamera - magistr (optional subject)
• Produkce - bakalář (faculty subject, optional subject)
• Produkce - magistr (optional subject)
• Audiovizuální studia - bakalář (qualification subject, faculty subject, optional subject)
• Střihová skladba - bakalář (faculty subject, optional subject)
• Střihová skladba - magistr (optional subject)
• Zvuková tvorba - bakalář (faculty subject, optional subject)
• Zvuková tvorba - magistr (optional subject)
• Fotografie CZ - bakalář (faculty subject, optional subject)
• Fotografie CZ - magistr (optional subject)
• Audiovizuální studia - magistr (qualification subject, optional subject)
• Fotografie CZ: Restaurování fotografie (optional subject)