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Lecturer(s)
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Kubartová Eliška, Mgr. Ph.D.
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Course content
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ANCIENT GREEK THEATRE 1. Relation between theatre and ritual; Great Dionysia; relation of theatre and society + Aristophanes: Lysistrata 2. Spectacularity: theatre space; mask + Sophocles: Antigone ANCIENT ROMAN THEATRE 3. Theatre as a part of the cultural and economic transfer; theatre and performance space + Plautus: Pseudolus 4. Theatre as a body technique: pantomime, mime, anti-theatrical prejudice + Seneca: Phaedra MEDIEVAL THEATRE 5. Theatre and religion; taxonomy and genres: theatricalized ritual, bilingual plays, spectacularization of liturgy, emotions, theatricalization + Visitatio Sepulchri 6. Theatre and Power: Passion Plays and Mystery Cycles + Second Shepherd´s Play 7. Carnival and subversion: Feasts of Fools, faraces, Fastnachtspiels + Tub Farce 8. Women in medieval theatre and performance culture: Hroswitha, Hildegard of Bingen, devotional piety of nuns + Hroswitha: Dulcitius EARLY MODERN ERA 9. Theatre as a part of the cultural and economic transfer: Renaissance Humanism (commedia erudita), urbanization (aristocratic and public theatres), trade (Morality Play) and travel (travelling actors) + Machiavelli: Mandragora, Everyman 10. Transformations of stage design and theatre space, presentation and representation: proscenium theatre; perspectival scenography - spectacularization and found performance spaces 11. Innovations in the repertoire: autos sacramentales + sacre rappresentazioni; Elisabethan drama; Spanish Golden Age, Moliere, opera + Moliere: Misanthrop 12. Shakespeare: Twelfth Night
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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Lecture, Monologic Lecture(Interpretation, Training), Work with Text (with Book, Textbook), Projection (static, dynamic)
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Learning outcomes
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The aim of the course is to introduce the crucial tendencies, phenomena, events and personalities in the history of theatre and performance culture from the beginning to 1400. The major issues discussed in the course is the relationship between text and performance; the relationship between theatre and ritual outside the institutionalized theatre in the pre-modern cultures; the genres; economic transactions; and the power relations in the Antiquity, Middle Ages and the beginning of the Pre-Modern Era. The course is taught as a lecture and home reading.
Student obtains knowledge about the crucial European theatre and drama evolution eras, including knowledge of continuity in theatre evolution. Student is able to define the relationship between society and theatre in individul eras and is able to describe the historical changes in staging and scenography, including the infuence on drama and acting style. Student knows chronologicaly the individual tendencies and genres through the historical forms of theatre, including the changes of theatrical space and is able to characterize its functions and significance.
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Prerequisites
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No prerequisites. Basic knowledge of the European theatre epochs including drama.
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Assessment methods and criteria
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Mark, Oral exam, Written exam
Oral examination testing the knowledge of information from the lectures and the plays.
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Recommended literature
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Druhá pastýřská hra.
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Everyman.
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Fraška o kádi.
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Visitatio sepulchri svatojiřského kláštera.
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Aristophanes. Lysistrate.
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Eva Stehlíková. (2005). Antické divadlo. Praha.
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HILSKÝ, Martin. (2010). Shakespeare a jeviště svět. Praha.
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Hroswitha. Dulcitius.
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Moliere. Misantrop.
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N. Machiavelli. Mandragora.
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Plautus. Lišák Pseudolus.
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SENECA. Faidra.
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SHAKESPEARE, William. Večer tříkrálový.
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Sofoklés. Antigona.
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STEHLÍKOVÁ, Eva. (2005). Divadlo za časů Nerona a Seneky. Praha.
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Zarrilli, Phillip B. (2006). Theatre Histories. An Introduction. New York/London.
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