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Lecturer(s)
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Kubartová Eliška, Mgr. Ph.D.
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Bernátek Martin, Mgr. Ph.D.
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Course content
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In Winter Semester 2023/2024, the course is taught by Eliška Kubartová, eliska.kubartova@upol.cz 1.-2. Introduction to Comedy Genres 3.-4. Ancient Comedy as Utopia. Aristophanes: The Birds 5.-6. Renaissance comedy of confusion as a question of identity. Shakespeare: Comedy of Errors 7.-8. Classical comedy as social satire. Moliere: Tartuffe 9.-10. Modern comedy as political satire. Voskovec and Werich: Caesar 11.-12. Movement comedy: Commedia dell'arte (recording of P. Scherhaufer's performance at the Theatre on a String)
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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Monologic Lecture(Interpretation, Training), Dialogic Lecture (Discussion, Dialog, Brainstorming), Projection (static, dynamic)
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Learning outcomes
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This course examines comedy as an artistic, cultural and social mechanism from antiquity to the 21st century. It aims to show, through specific productions, performances and texts, what formal forms aestheticized humor can take and what functions it fulfills in different cultural and historical contexts. We will see that the comic is not a superficial phenomenon serving to "merely" entertain, but a semantic and affective device that - in the past as today - can unite and divide, delight and hurt.
Upon completion of the course, learners will: - will be able to name the different forms and types of aestheticized comic and give examples of them; - they will be able to relate the aesthetic aspect of comedy genres to their socio-cultural context; - be able to recognise and describe the subversive and socio-cohesive aspects of staged humour; - understand humour in theatre, drama and cultural performances in its complexity.
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Prerequisites
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unspecified
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Assessment methods and criteria
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Student performance, Seminar Work
- home work (assigned reading) - active participation in seminar discussion and activities - final seminar paper
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Recommended literature
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Calder, Andrew. Moliere: The Theory and Practice of Comedy. Bloomsbury. 2000.
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ČERNÝ, František a kol. (1983). Dějiny českého divadlaIV.. Praha .
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Fontaine, Michael and Adele C. Scafuro. The Oxford Handbook of Greek and Roman Comedy. Oxford University Press. 2013.
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Leggat, Alexander. The Cambridge Companion to Shakespearean Comedy. Cambridge University Press. 2002.
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Oslzlý, Petr. Commedia dell'arte Divadla na provázku (1974-1985): analýza, rekonstrukce, dokumentace inscenace režiséra Petra Scherhaufera & Harlekýna Boleslava Polívky. Janáčkova akademie múzických umění v Brně, Divadelní fakulta. 2010.
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Weitz, Eric. Theatre and Laughter. MacMillan. 2016.
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