FF:US_48 Chapters from Theater History - Course Information
US_48 Chapters from Theater History II.
Faculty of ArtsSpring 2013
- Extent and Intensity
- 1/1. 2 credit(s) (plus 2 credits for an exam). Recommended Type of Completion: zk (examination). Other types of completion: k (colloquium).
- Teacher(s)
- Mgr. Veronika Valentová, Ph.D. (lecturer), PhDr. Dagmar Koudelková (deputy)
- Guaranteed by
- PhDr. Dagmar Koudelková
Department of Musicology – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Vlasta Taranzová
Supplier department: Department of Musicology – Faculty of Arts - Timetable
- Tue 15:50–17:25 N51
- Prerequisites (in Czech)
- US_47 Chapters from Theater History &&NOW( US_48cv Chapters from Theater History )
- Course Enrolment Limitations
- The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
The capacity limit for the course is 130 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/130, only registered: 0/130, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/130 - fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
- Musicology (programme FF, B-HS)
- Musicology (programme FF, B-OT) (2)
- Combined Art Studies (programme FF, B-HS)
- Combined Art Studies (programme FF, B-OT) (2)
- Course objectives
- The course is outlined as a two-semester lecture that aims at capturing the most important developmental phases of world theatre and drama. The lecture will focus on some historic and style epochs (the ancient world, Middle Ages, the Renaissance, the Baroque, Classicism, Romanticism, Symbolism, Surrealism, Theatre of the Absurd, etc.) as well as principal works and personalities of world drama and theatre, including selections from their work. At the end of this course, students should be able to take bearings in the theatre history and to analyse and interpret the most important dramatic works.
- Syllabus
- ROMANTISM - Pre-Romantic movements (Sturm und Drang), Germany (Grabbe, Kleist, Büchner…), France (Hugo, de Musset, Mérimée)
- SYMBOLISM AND THE MODERN (Théâtre d'Art, Théâtre de l'Oeuvre, Paul Fort, Lugné-Poë, Alfréd Jarry, Blok...)
- ABSURD THEATER (Beckett, Ionesco, Arrabal, Adamov; Sarrautová, Durasová)
- POLITICAL THEATER IN THE XX. CENTURY (B. Brecht, E. Piscator, P. Weiss, E. Jelinek)
- EXPERIMENTAL THEATER OF THE 2ND HALF OF THE XX. CENTURY (Living Theatre /Beck, Malina/, Divadlo Laboratoř /Grotowski/, Peter Brook, Odin Teatret /Barba/
- CONTEMPORARY DRAMA (S. Sheppard, T. Stoppard, M. Ravenhill, B.-M. Koltes, E. Walsh...)
- Literature
- KLEIN, Pavel and Danuše KŠICOVÁ. Symbolismus na scéně MCHAT. Režijní koncepce K. S. Stanislavského. (Symbolism on the scene of the MCHAT. K. S. Stanislavsky - the Idea of his Direction.). Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2003, 164 pp. Masarykova univerzita. ISBN 80-210-3126-3. info
- BROCKETT, Oscar G. Dějiny divadla. Translated by Milan Lukeš. Praha: Lidové noviny, 1999, 948 s. ISBN 8070080965. info
- BERNARD, Jan. Co je divadlo. 1. vydání. Praha: Státní pedagogické nakladatelství, 1983, 330 stran. info
- BLAHNÍK, Vojtěch Kristián. Světové dějiny divadla. Praha: Aventinum, 1929, xiv, 622. info
- Teaching methods
- lectures, homeworks
- Assessment methods
- The course is concluded by a writen exam and a essay.
- Language of instruction
- Czech
- Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
- Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
- Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2013, recent)
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