FF:DISQ010 Commedia dell arte - Course Information
DISQ010 Commedia dell arte
Faculty of ArtsSpring 2025
The course is not taught in Spring 2025
- Extent and Intensity
- 1/1/5. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
- Teacher(s)
- doc. Mgr. Martina Musilová, Ph.D. (lecturer)
- Guaranteed by
- doc. Mgr. Martina Musilová, Ph.D.
Department of Theatre Studies – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: doc. Mgr. Martina Musilová, Ph.D.
Supplier department: Department of Theatre Studies – Faculty of Arts - Course Enrolment Limitations
- The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
- fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
- there are 6 fields of study the course is directly associated with, display
- Course objectives
- The course is dealing with the forms and changes of Italian Commedia dell'Arte, acting with the mask and concept of a drama character inspired by masks in the chosen periods of Europian theatre. The course defines specific forms of acting influenced by Commedia dell’Arte through the video-records of European and Czech performances (Antonio Fava, Giorgio Strehler, Jacques Lecoq, Divadlo na provázku, Hubert Krejčí).
The course is held in Czech. - Learning outcomes
At the end of the course student will be able to:
- define periods of history of Commedia dell’Arte;
- define its influences on European theatre culture from the 16th century up today (Italian Commedia dell’Arte, its French branch, inspiring influence in the period of modernism and avant-garde, and contemporary conceptions of acting with the mask);
- prove knowledge of the most important performances of commedia dell'Arte throught 20th century.- Syllabus
- The origin of Italian commedie dell'arte
- Scenarios
- Characteristics of fixed types
- French modification of commedie dell'arte
- Stylised theatre of 20th century
- Examples of influences of commedie dell'arte in Czech culture
- Literature
- required literature
- DALLA PORTA, Giovan Battista. Astrolog. Praha: DILIA, 1979
- DIGRIN, Zdeněk. Divadlo učenců a diplomatů. Vyd. 1. Praha: Divadelní ústav, 1995, 527 s. ISBN 8070080442. info
- FREJKA, Jiří. Smích a divadelní maska, Praha: Jos. R. Vilímek, 1942
- KRATOCHVÍL, Karel. Komedie dell'arte doma i za hranicemi : fakta, poznámky, podněty. 1. vyd. Praha: Divadelní ústav, 1973. info
- KREJČÍ, Hubert. Divadelní hříčky. Praha: Krystal, 1999
- MUSILOVÁ, Martina. Základní rysy komedie dell’arte a jejího herectví. In Ad honorem Eva Stehlíková. Praha: Filosofický ústav Akademie věd České republiky, 2011. s. 221 – 233
- RUZZANTE, Angelo Beolco: Komedie o lásce (Vdovička z Ancony). Praha: DILIA, 1969
- recommended literature
- DUCHARTRE, Pierre-Louis. The Italian comedy : the improvisation, scenarios, lives, attributes, portraits, and masks of the illustrious characters of the commedia dell'arte : La Comedie italienne (Orig.). Translated by Randolph T. Weaver. London: Harrap, 1929, 330 p. : i. info
- HENKE, Robert. Performance and literature in the commedia dell'arte. 1st pub. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002, xiv, 263. ISBN 0521643244. info
- KATRITZKY, M. A. The art of commedia : a study in the commedia dell'arte 1560-1620 with special reference to the visual records. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2006, 625 s. ISBN 9042017988. info
- MIKLAŠEVSKIJ, Konstantin Michajlovič. Komedia dell'arte, czyli, Teatr komediantów włowskich XVI, XVII, XVIII wieku. Wrocław: Zakład Narodowy imienia Ossolińskich, 1961. info
- OREGLIA, Giacomo. The Commedia dell’Arte. London: Methuen & Co Ltd, 1968
- SCALA, Flaminio. The commedia dell'arte of Flaminio Scala : a translation and analysis of 30 scenarios. Translated by Richard Andrews. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow, 2008, lvi, 341. ISBN 9780810863606. info
- Teaching methods
- lecture, individual reading, discussion, videodocumentation
- Assessment methods
- Written test, oral exam. Pass-fail line is 70%.
- Language of instruction
- Czech
- Further Comments
- The course is taught: every week.
- Teacher's information
- http://divadlo.phil.muni.cz/
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