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, Jaroslav VOSTRÝ

Learning outcomes of the course unit

The aim of the course is to provide 1st-year acting, Drama Dept. directing and dramaturgy students and Set Design Dept. student and image of the fundamental tendencies of theatre in Western culture in the context of their period. This also requires an idea of the individual tendencies and their conflicts as open events, when facts and the questions that arise from them are equally important.

The result is to be a basic bearing in the covered tendencies of theatre in Western culture but not in a historical procession from one topic identical to the historical period but a glimpse into the „overall“ development in the discussion of each topic. This is dependent on a basic awareness of the links in the development of theatre to the development of the image of the world and mankind in Western culture and from its consciousness of sources, active role of theatre and its potenial. The viewpoint - with a sense of responsibility to the fundamental mission of instructing an artistic study at the Drama and Set Design Depts. - it is not theatrological but dramaturgical

Mode of study

Lecture linked to classes.

Prerequisites and co-requisites

Successful completion of the entrance exam.

Course contents

This course combines lectures from the Pro-seminar originating in the basic assumption of the grasp of theatre history and theory and its „practical“ understanding coming from other (primarily artistic) courses. This is not an overview of data and names but primarily a study of particular bases or subjects corresponding to various tendicies of Western drama in which the selected topics provide a basic bearing:

1. Sources and considerations of Western culture in the perspective and rise and form of theatre.
2. Ancient culture and the rise of theatre as a cultural institution: between ritual and theatre, between Greek Dionysiem and Roman mime, between religious experience and entertainment.
3. Ancient Greece and rise of drama.
4. Christianity and Western theatre between the temple and the market, seriousness and laughter, parts of cults and entertainment, religion and poetry.
5. From the Middle Age insanity to Shakespeare's clowns.
6. Shakespeare and the image of man in European culture.
7. Italian novelties in set design in the context of new era European theatre.
8. Baroque theatre between scenes and scenarios.
9. Komedie dell' Arte and European theatre between the written text and acting improvisation.
10. Moliere and the path from mime to new era comedy and from type to character.
11. The end of Harlequin? From Baroque Classicism to Enlightenment and from (pre-)Romaticiam to Weimar Classicisim: conflict of mime with drama theatre and the fate of the Viennese folk comedy.

Recommended or required reading

Required literature:

Císař, J. Přehled dějin českého divadla, Praha 2006, 2009

Jindřich Vodák k historii českého divadla (antologie studijních textů, eds. Vostrý / Sílová), Praha 2017

Vostrý, J. / Sílová, Z. České drama a český hrdina, Praha 2017 ( vybrané kapitoly)

Sílová, Z. Komedianti na české scéně, Praha 2013 (vybrané kapitoly)

Plays:

V. K. Klicpera (výběr 2 ze 4): Veselohra na mostě, Rohovín čtverrohý, Hadrián z Římsů, Divotvorný klobouk;

J. K. Tyl: Krvavé křtiny, (výběr 1 ze 3:) Strakonický dudák, Tvrdohlavá žena, Paličova dcera;

Jaroslav Vrchlický: Noc na Karlštejně, Trilogie o Hippodamii;

Julius Zeyer: Radúz a Mahulena;

Ladislav Stroupežnický: Naši furianti;

Gabriela Preissová: Gazdina roba nebo Její pastorkyňa;

Bratři Mrštíkové: Maryša;

Alois Jirásek (výběr 2 ze 4): Vojnarka, Otec, Jan Hus, Lucerna

+ others according to one's interests mentioned in lecture.

Other recommended lecture according to one's own considerations, related to topics covered in the Winter semester 2018/2019:

Studies and Monographs:

Macura, V. „Paradox obrozenského divadla“, in Divadlo v české kultuře 19. století, Praha 1985: 36–43

Stich, A. „Český jazyk a dramatický text v 19. století“, in Divadlo v české kultuře 19. století, Praha 1985: 75–85, přetištěno in Stich, A. Od Karla Havlíčka k Františku Halasovi, Praha 1996: 101–116

Šotek, M. Komedie podle V. K. Klicpery, Praha 2018 (v tisku, v knihovně DAMU od 15. ledna 2019)

Honzl, J. „Hadrián z Římsů na moderním jevišti“, in (týž) K novému významu umění, Praha 1956: 142–144

sb. Josef Kajetán Tyl 1808–1856–2006–2008, Praha 2007

Chválová, L. Žena v divadle Josefa Kajetána Tyla, Praha 2012

Fischer, O. „Činohra v pražských divadlech: Prozatímním, Národním, Městském“, in Československá vlastivěda, VIII. sv. (Umění), Praha 1935: 357–384 (kap. „Prozatímní divadlo, 1862–1883); 385–421 (Národní divadlo za Šuberta, 1883–1900

Pešková, E. „Zápisky české herečky“, 1886, Disk 26 (prosinec 2008): 171–182; Disk 27 (březen 2009): 160–170)

Chválová, L. „Otýlie Sklenářová-Malá: cesta na jeviště“, Disk 35 (březen 2011): 66–80

František Götz, Boj o český divadelní sloh, Praha 1934: 25–39

Kvapil, J. O čem vím, různá vydání (kapitoly podle vlastního výběru)

Scheinpflugová, O. Byla jsem na světě, Praha 1994 (first complete publication): 66–69

Vostrý, J. Zdeněk Štěpánek (Herec a dějiny), Praha 1997: 95–105 (z kap. Ze smíchovských kasáren na Vinohrady) a 106–139 (Cesta ke slávě)

Encyclopedias:

Starší divadlo v českých zemích do konce 18. století (Osobnosti a díla), Praha 2007; Česká činohra 19. a začátku 20. století (Osobnosti), Praha 2015; Česká divadla, Praha 2000; Národní divadlo a jeho předchůdci, Praha 1988

Assessment methods and criteria

Oral exam based on the submitted seminar paper on a selected topic of at least 3.5 pages (6300 characters)

Subjecto of seminar paper are by choice and should originate from the concepts, events, works, figures devoted to in the lectures.

The oral exam is a discussion on the submitted seminar paper and reading list which the student submits for the oral exam; a knowledge of the provided literature is required.

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 2018/2019:

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Schedule for summer semester 2018/2019:

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)