Interpretation Seminar 2

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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 plays in which the theater, theatricality, plays are topics. (Euripides, Calderon, Pirandello, Schnitzler, etc.).

Prerequisites and co-requisites:

Theatre History Lectures.

Course contents:

In the first year of the two-year class, the course in the study of Shakespeare, his figures and relevance reflects back to the beginnings of drama culture and foward to modern drama. In the second year students encounter dramas in which theatre, theatricality and plays (Euripides, Calderon, Pirandello, Schnitzler, etc.) are the topics.

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.

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 2016/2017:

The schedule has not yet been prepared

Schedule for summer 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
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Thu	místnost T107 Učebna 107 (Tržiště 20, Praha 1 (vchod z Rektorátu AMU, Malostranské nám. 12)) RAISOVÁ M. 10:00–12:00 (paralelka 1)
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Date	Day	Time	Tutor	Location	Notes	No. of paralel
	Thu	10:00–12:00	Michaela RAISOVÁ	Učebna 107 Tržiště 20, Praha 1 (vchod z Rektorátu AMU, Malostranské nám. 12)		paralelka 1

The subject is a part of the following study plans:

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