Western Theatre History 1

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Subject guarantor:

Zuzana SÍLOVÁ, Jaroslav VOSTRÝ

Name of lecturer(s):

Jana CINDLEROVÁ, Jakub KORČÁK, Jana KUDLÁČKOVÁ, Zuzana SÍLOVÁ, Milan ŠOTEK, Jaroslav VOSTRÝ

Learning outcomes of the course unit:

The course result is to be a basic bearing in the covered tendencies of Western culture theatre when the presentation covers not only the historigraphic progress from one topic identical to the appropriate historical period but a glimpse into the „overall“ development in the discussion of each topic. This bearing serves, primarily, as a study of some bases or subjects corresponding to the various tendencies in western drama theatre.

Mode of study:

Lecture linked to classes.

Prerequisites and co-requisites:

Successful completion of the entrance exam.

Course contents:

The aim of the course is to provide first-year acting, directing and dramaturgy students of the Drama Dept. and set-design students at the Set Design Dept. an overall image of the basic tendencies of theatre in western culture in the context of the story, in which they are to find their place. This also requires an idea of individual tendencies and their everyday conflicts which is as important as the questions which arrive from this.

Topics of the Winter semester:

1. Sources and considerations of western culture in the perspective of the rise and form of theatre.

2. Ancient culture and the rise of theatre as a cultural institution: between ritual and theatre, between Greek Dionysia and Roman mime, between religious experience and entertainment.

3. Ancient Greec and rise of drama.

4. Classic and classicism: Aristotle's ideal and the development of European drama from Aeschyla, Sophocles and Euripides to Cornell and Racine

5. Staging and the Christian Middle-ages.

6. From Medieval lunacy to Shakespeare clowning and his successors.

7. Shakespeare and the image of man in European culture.

8. Italian inventions in set-design in a context of new age European theatre.

9. Baroque theatre between scenery and scenarios.

10. Comedia dell' arte and European theatre between written text and acting improvisation.

Recommended or required reading:

Required lietrature:

Brockett, O. Dějiny divadla, Praha 1999, resp. 2008 (příslušné kapitoly)

Kotte, A. Divadelní věda. Úvod, Praha 2010 (vybrané kapitoly)

Plays:

Sofokles: Král Oidipus, Antigona

Plautus: Lišák Pseudolus

William Shakespeare: Romeo a Julie, Othello, Hamlet nebo Král Lear, Richard III. nebo Macbeth; Večer tříkrálový, Sen noci svatojanské

Pedro Calderón de la Barca: Život je sen

Pierre Corneille: Cid

Jean Racine: Faidra

Assessment methods and criteria:

Oral exam base on the presented course paper on an assigned topic.

Course web page:

Note:

A course originating in the need for students with an interest in drama, which may serve other departments, ex: Set Design Dept if there is interest - maybe because from a basic perspective - in the one-time tradition of the successful lectures by Prof. F Goetze - it is not theatrological but dramaturgical.

Further information:

This course is an elective for all students of this school

Schedule for winter semester 2017/2018:

	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
Fri	room S202 Zasedací místnost (Karlova 26, Praha 1) 09:30–11:00 (přednášková par. 1)

Date	Day	Time	Tutor	Location	Notes	No. of paralel
	Fri	09:30–11:00		Zasedací místnost Karlova 26, Praha 1		přednášková par. 1

Schedule for summer semester 2017/2018:

The schedule has not yet been prepared

The subject is a part of the following study plans:

• Acting for Dramatic Theatre (M.A.) (required subject)
• Directing and Dramaturgy for Dramatic Theatre (B.A.) (required subject, optional subject)
• Stage Design (B.A.) (required subject)