Interpretation Seminar 3

Subject guarantor:

Name of lecturer(s):

Jana PILÁTOVÁ, Přemysl RUT

Learning outcomes of the course unit:

Instructing students to read carefully, make reading a need in life, that is, to demonstrate its sense. Considering the study focus, training in reading drama. A drama is not the summation of all repartee and stage knowledge. To read them is to decipher their structure. The interpretation course teaches this specific type of reading. As well, it shows how the structure of a drama (today more often, post-drama) text in the history of theatre has changed.

Mode of study:

In the first year of the two-year course, Shakespeare is the subject of study. His position and significance reflects back to the beginning of drama culture and forward to modern drama. In the second year the students encounter plays in which the theater, theatricality, plays are topics. (Euripides, Calderon, Pirandello, Schnitzler, etc.).

Prerequisites and co-requisites:

Theatre History Lectures

Recommended optional programme components:

No elective requirements.

Course contents:

Students come to class with a previously read text which is, based on the first observations, read again and re-interpreted, in at least key scenes.

Recommended or required reading:

Eco: Meze interpretace.

Jan Kott: Shakespearovské črty,

Alois Bejblík: Shakespearův svět,

Přemysl Rut: Příběh a Shakespeare,

J. L. Styan: Prvky dramatu, Černá komedie,

Bertolt Brecht: Myšlenky,

Friedrich Durrenmatt: Problémy divadla,

Jan Hyvnar: Francouzská divadelní reforma, Herec v moderním divadle,

Hans-Thies Lehmann: Postdramatické divadlo,

Jana Pilátová: Hnízdo Grotowského a především vlastní dramatické texty.

Other materials arising from classes.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods:

At the end of the semester each student selects one topic which was talked about. In an independent expose, it is presented to the others. As well a course paper is submitted on a selected topic.

Assessment methods and criteria:

At the middle of the year, credit, at the end, exam. Aside from participation and student discourse during the whole course, the ability to speak about a selected topic in the final colloquium is evaluated

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Note:

Schedule for winter semester 2013/2014:

The schedule has not yet been prepared

Schedule for summer semester 2013/2014:

The schedule has not yet been prepared

The subject is a part of the following study plans:

• Authorial Acting - 2 years (M.A.) (compulsory subject)