Interpretation Seminar 1

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Subject guarantor:

Name of lecturer(s):

Michaela RAISOVÁ

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 modern and contemporary plays of Irish, British and American origin (Synge, Carr, Parker, McDonagh, Kane, Marber, Shepard, Albee, Kushner, Stoppard, Beckett). Special focus will be on th theatre of the absurd and on the second theatre reform movement (according to Braun).

Prerequisites and co-requisites:

Theatre History Lectures

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. They are required to write essay and give an oral presentation at the end of the course.

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.

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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Schedule for winter semester 2016/2017:

	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
Wed
Thu	místnost () RAISOVÁ M. 10:00–12:00 (paralelka 1)
Fri

Date	Day	Time	Tutor	Location	Notes	No. of paralel
	Thu	10:00–12:00	Michaela RAISOVÁ			paralelka 1

Schedule for summer semester 2016/2017:

The schedule has not yet been prepared

The subject is a part of the following study plans:

• Authorial Acting in English (M.A.) (compulsory subject)