History, Theory and Practice of Czech Theatre Criticism 1
Code | Completion | Credits | Range | Language Instruction | Semester |
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201HKR1 | Z | 2 | 2T | Czech | winter |
Subject guarantor
Jana CINDLEROVÁ, Jaroslav VOSTRÝ
Name of lecturer(s)
Learning outcomes of the course unit
The aim of the course is to guide Drama Theatre Dept. directing and dramaturgy students to a greater understanding of the relationship of theatre and audience in the context of the period social mentality at the limits of general cultural and professional theatre review. The result of this is a tracing of the development of those reviews, not narrowly academic (or pseudo-academic) dividing critiques and dramaturgy but about the concepts of both disciplines which correspond to the real situation and would be sufficent in the real relation to theatre and the relation to creation and review in theatre practice where individual professions (director, dramaturgist, critic) overlap; how, otherwise, examples demonstrate this. This course is important also for the study of history and contemporary practice and a perspective on Czech drama in which a study of historical material becomes part (on which relevant knowledge depends!) of self-identification of talent and development of it's various aspects.
Mode of study
Classes, completed paper.
Prerequisites and co-requisites
Class participation, completed course paper.
Course contents
Winter semester content:
- Critique conflict about Macha's Maya nd two concepts of drama theatre dramaturgy from the revivalist period to today's review and forms of differentiation between „objective“ and „subjective“ romantic, engaged, that is documentary or political, and „poetic“, that is, „pure artistic“ and subversive thatre; Macha and Tyl, Macha and the avant garde.
- Czech criticism with basis in Dobrovsky's (Jan Nempomuk's Critique of cult) from Havlicek to Massaryk and Czech drama theatre critique from Neruda to Vodak.
- Neruda's theatre critique as a Prague period of Lessing's Hamburg dramaturgy: critique as theoretical, that is program dramaturgy in its direct relation to actual practice; piece and tendency.
- Vodak's concept of drama arts as the art of staging with basis in acting reflected on the borders of specific staging and staging of Czech society.
- Vaclav Till's critique and director František Zavřel: Normative and program critique, standards and modes or tendencies, critique as program dramaturgy.
Recommended or required reading
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Stich, A. „Ještě k Máchovi: velký a silný protivník J. K. Tyl“, in Černý, F. (red.) Monology o Josefu Kajetánu Tylovi, Praha 1993: 65–73
Masaryk, T. G. „O studiu děl básnických“, in Jeřábek, D. (ed.) O národní literaturu, Praha 1990: 243–262
Tureček, D. a kol. České literární romantično, Brno 2012: vybrané pasáže zejm. ze stati K. Hrdiny „Romantismus v české literární historii“
Tyl, J. K. „Pohled na literaturu nejnovější“ [s kritikou Máje], in (týž) O umění, Praha 1951: 166–177 + novela „Rozervanec“ dost. i online
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Císař, J. Život jevišti (Formování české realistické kritiky), Praha 1962
Havlíček, K. O literatuře [obsahuje kromě velké stati o kritice a recenze Tylova Posledního Čecha i stati o divadle]
Marek, J. Česká moderní kultura, Praha 1998: 207–217 (VII. 2. Česká moderna a kriticismus)
Mikovec, F. B. „Josef Kajetán Tyl“ a další články in (týž) Pražská Thálie kolem roku 1850, Praha 2010
Mrštík, V. Moje sny (Pia desideria) I, II, Praha 1903, event. + (týž) Bestia triumphans, Praha 1897
Pisarevský, P. O. [=Masaryk, T. G.] „J. Vrchlického ‘Exulanti’“, Čas, r. 1, č. 2 (5. 1. 1887: 17–20, č. 3 (20. 1.): 33–40 a č. 4 (5. 2.): 55–59
Schauer, H. G. „Naše dvě otázky“, in Jeřábek, D. (ed.) O národní literaturu, Praha 1990: 263–270 a další „úvahy a polemiky doby májovců a lumírovců“
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Neruda, J. Divadlo I, Praha 1959, Divadlo II, 1951, Divadlo III, 1954, Divadlo IV, 1958, Divadlo V, 1966, Divadlo VI, 1973
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Jindřich Vodák k historii českého divadla (připravuje se)
Vodák, J. Kritické dílo: z 6 svazků vyd. J. Trägerem zejm. Eduard Vojan, Praha 1950, Tři herecké podobizny (Mošna, Kvapilová, Hübnerová), 1953, a Tváře českých herců (Od Josefa Jiřího Kolára k Vlastovi Burianovi), 1967
Kopecký. J. „Kritik a herec (Marginálie k dílu Jindřicha Vodáka)“, Divadelní zápisník, 1945–1946: 561–564 a 615–625
Kopecký, J. „Dvě vodákovské kapitoly“, Divadelní zápisník, 1947: 354–362
Krýsa, V. J. (ed.) Kritik Jindřich Vodák [nekrology a další hodnotící články k úmrtí J. V.], Brno 1940
Pražák, A. Jindřich Vodák, Praha 1937
Pujman, F. Jindřich Vodák, Praha 1936
5.
T. [Tille, V.] Divadelní vzpomínky, Praha 1917
+ časopis Scéna 1813–1914
Assessment methods and criteria
Credit awarded based on the submitted course paper on an assigned topic.
Note
Possible course paper subjects
Mácha and Tyl
Havlíček and Tyl, resp. Havlíček on theatre
Neruda ane Sklenářová-Malá, resp. Neruda and J. J. Kolár or others
Vilém Mrštík critique
Schedule for winter semester 2018/2019:
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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Mon | 11:00–12:30 | Jana CINDLEROVÁ | Pracovna pedagogů Karlova 26, Praha 1 |
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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
- Directing and Dramaturgy for Dramatic Theatre (B.A.) (required subject)
- Theory and criticism (B.A.) (optional subject)
- Theory and criticism (M.A.) (optional subject)