History of World and Czech Theatre 1

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Learning outcomes of the course unit:

- Introduce the main phases of theatre arts.

- Introduce changes in theatre language and changes in the function of theatre.

- Expand student perception of texts, motivation structure, theme, composition and language.

- Teach how to analyse a text and conceive it in relation to various theatre productions in individual historical stages.

Mode of study:

Readings, moderated discussions, discussion, Theatre production media recordings, text analyses

Prerequisites and co-requisites:

- General knowledge of Czech and world literature and particularly drama literature.

- Analytical, review and interpretation skills.

- Creativity

Recommended optional programme components:

No elective requirements.

Course contents:

This course provides the main phases of development of Czech and world theatre and changes in theatre language from the beginning to the present

- Origin and basis of theatre. Sources of theatre (play, ritual, myth, dance, mask, narrative, wedding, customs); theatricality and theatre, theatre and culture; everyday theatre.

- Drama, classic drama; tragedy and comedy, Dionysian and apollinian theatre. Song and narrative, oral tradition - myth and epic, Homer, the oldest theatre (??) text, mystery, drama

- Ancient theatre: changes of theatre, its types and function, sources of later inspiration. Theatre celebration: organization, audience, space, actors, music and dance, costumes, masks; Helenistic and Roman Theatre; today's staging of the ancient.

- Medieval Theatre and drama: Carneval, folk culture and theatre.

- Types of Italian theatre and drama from the Renaissance: theatre space, set design, Intermezzo, court theatre, teaching, folk, dance, sung, graphic, Comedie dell' arte.

- English theatre anddrama: professional theatre; Shakespeare. Types of ensembles, financing and governmental regulation of theatre.

- Spanish theatre and drama: religious and educational theatre; the Baroque. Autos Sacramentale, Jesuit theatre, Komensky, Europeans: Don Quijote, Don Juan, Faust.

- French theatre and drama 1500-1800; rise, duration and changes in style. What affects the form of theatre? Normative aesthetics. Politics, philosophy, competition (official vs. non-official theatre), monopoly, organization of acting guilds, acting reforms, lists of theatres.

- German theatre and drama and its reforms; the phenomenon of national theatre (the function of the dramaturgist).

- European theatre and drama form 1800 to the beginnings of modern theatre: artistic vs. popular theatre (fro Romance to Realism). Types, genres; Drama, melodrama, vaudeville, burlesque, farce. Theatre operation: star system, technical novelties and theatre.

- Forms of realistic drama: Illusion theatre.

- The Great Theatre Reform (from Wagner to Moderism); new drama and stage theatre. New expression tools, the theatre artist - director; illusion and non-illusion theatre.

- Inter-war and post-war years of European theatre. The Avant Garde. „-isms“. Epic theatre. Existentialism and absurd drama.

- Types of theatre reforms: new social relationships, repertoire and alternative theatre.

- Changes in acting and directing in the 20th century - Stanislavsky Mejerchold, Brecht, Grotowski (and others).

Recommended or required reading:

BRAUN, Kazimierz. Druhá divadelní reforma? Přel. Jiří Vondráček. Praha: Divadelní ústav; Praha: Městská knihovna; Praha: AMU; Brno: JAMU, 1993. 176 s. Přel. z: Druga reforma teatru? ISBN 80-7008-037-X.

BROOK, Peter. Pohyblivý bod: Čtyřicet let divadelního výzkumu 1946-1987. Přel. Jan Hančil. Praha: Nakladatelství Studia Ypsilon, 1996. 248 s. Přel. z: The Shifting Point.

---. Prázdný prostor. Přel. Alois Bejblík. Praha: Panorama, 1988. 232 s. Přel. z: The Empty Space.

BROCKETT, Oscar G. Dějiny divadla. Přel. Milan Lukeš a Zdena Benešová. Praha: Nakladatelství Lidové noviny; Praha: Divadelní ústav, 1999. 948 s. Přel. z: History of the Theatre [1968, 1999]. ISBN 80-7008-096-5 (Divadelní ústav). 80-7106-364-9 (Lidové noviny).

CÍSAŘ, Jan. Přehled dějin českého divadla: I. Od počátků do roku 1862. Praha: AMU, Divadelní fakulta, katedra teorie a kritiky, 2004. 100 s. ISBN 80-7331-007-4.

---. Přehled dějin českého divadla: II. Od roku 1862 do roku 1945. Praha: AMU, Divadelní fakulta, katedra teorie a kritiky, 2004. 220 s. ISBN 80-7331-027-9.

---. Vývoj divadelního jazyka. České Budějovice: Krajské kulturní středisko České Budějovice, 1990. 134 s. ISBN 80-85028-36-0.

ČERNÝ, František (ed.). Dějiny českého divadla I, II, III, IV. Praha: Academia, 1968, 1969, 1977, 1983. 428, 432, 660, 708 s.

HYVNAR, Jan. Herec v moderním divadle. Praha: Pražská scéna, 2000. 296 s. ISBN 80-86102-07-6.

LEHMANN, Hans Thies. Postdramatické divadlo. Prel. Anna Grusková a Elena Diamantová. Bratislava: Divadelný ústav, 2007. 368 s. Ed. Svetové divadlo. Prel. z: Postdramatisches Theater. ISBN 978-80-88987-81-9.

PAVIS, Patrice. Divadelní slovník: slovník divadelních pojmů. Přel. Daniela Jobertová. Praha: Divadelní ústav, 2003. s. 496. Přel. z: Dictionnaire du Théâtre [1996]. ISBN 80-7008-157-0.

SCHERHAUFER, Petr. Čítanka z dejín divadelnej réžie: od Goetheho a Schillera po Reinhardta. Bratislava: NOC, 1998. 328 s. ISBN 80-85455-75-7.

---. Čítanka z dejín divadelnej réžie: od neandertálca po Meiningenčanov. Bratislava: NOC, 1998. 368 s. ISBN 80-85455-74-9.

---. Čítanka z dejín divadelnej réžie: od futuristov po Ejzenštejna. Bratislava: Divadelný ústav, 1999. 368 s. ISBN 80-88987-02-4.

STEHLÍKOVÁ Eva. Antické divadlo. Praha: Univerzita Karlova, Karolinum, 2005. 384 s. ISBN 80-246-1105-8.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods:

lecture, classes

Assessment methods and criteria:

During the semester independent readings and participation in class discussions are required which are conditions for taking the exam. The exam is written and oral. The overall grading is comprised of 30% for class participation, 40% for the written and 30% for the oral part of the exam.

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No schedule has been prepared for this course

The subject is a part of the following study plans:

• Drama in Education - part-time 3 years (M.A.) (compulsory subject)