Metamorphosis of dramatic forms and genres

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Subject guarantor:

Marie MRAVCOVÁ

Name of lecturer(s):

Marie MRAVCOVÁ

Learning outcomes of the course unit:

Ability to interpret a drama writing from a historical development perspective; knowledge of basic terminology.

Mode of study:

Classes, lectures. Drama readings.

Prerequisites and co-requisites:

Ability to read a drama writing from a perspective of the inherent elements: behaviour and events, time and space, drama figures.

Course contents:

Changes in drama from the perspective of development phases: antique tragedy, Spanish Baroque drama, classical tragedy, romantic drama (Schiller, Hugo, Musset); Chechov's drama reform, Ibsen's psychological drama, expressionistic drama, actualizing myth in French drama (Anouilh, Cocteau, Sartre), existential drama, pschologism, Tennesee Williams, Absurd drama? (Pirondello, Strindberg, O'Neille, Durrenmatt, etc.)

Explication of the concept of drama form of each epoch or specific features of original dramaturgy; analysis of drama writings - some aspects (stavba, language, characters?)

Recommended or required reading:

E. Bentley: The Life of the Drama. New York 1965; Aristoteles: Poetika. Praha 1962; Prvky dramatu. Orbis 1964; divadlo a drama. Praha 1980; Zdeněk Hořínek: Drama, divadlo, divák. Tatran 1985; Miroslav Procházka: znaky dramatu. Melantrich 1987; Milan Lukeš: Umění dramatu. Melantrich 1987; Anglické absurdní divadlo. Orbis 1966; S. Szondi: Teorie moderního dramatu. Frankfurt 1967 (1. Vyd. 1965)

Reading of drama writings, visits to current stagings, viewing film adaptations

Assessment methods and criteria:

Paper based on instruction; an attempt at independent analysis of a selected writing.

Course web page:

Note:

This is an obligatory course for the second year of Bachelor's study at the Dept. of Screenwriting and Script Editing.

Schedule for winter semester 2015/2016:

The schedule has not yet been prepared

Schedule for summer semester 2015/2016:

	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	místnost 344 Učebna 7 (Lažanský palác) MRAVCOVÁ M. 12:20–13:55 (přednášková par. 1)
Wed
Thu
Fri

Date	Day	Time	Tutor	Location	Notes	No. of paralel
	Tue	12:20–13:55	Marie MRAVCOVÁ	Učebna 7 Lažanský palác		přednášková par. 1

The subject is a part of the following study plans: