Unit CLASSICAL DRAMA
- Course
- Humanities
- Study-unit Code
- GP005960
- Curriculum
- Classico
- Teacher
- Antonietta Gostoli
- Teachers
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- Antonietta Gostoli
- Hours
- 36 ore - Antonietta Gostoli
- CFU
- 6
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2021
- Offered
- 2023/24
- Learning activities
- Affine/integrativa
- Area
- Attività formative affini o integrative
- Academic discipline
- L-FIL-LET/05
- Type of study-unit
- Opzionale (Optional)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
- Language of instruction
- Italian
- Contents
- The course is aimed at providing students with basic information on the material aspects of Greek and Roman theatre; the dramaturgical aspects; the agonal occasion; the religious, social and cultural function of the theatrical performance; the public. The reading of Sophocles' Antigone and Seneca's Oedipus will be proposed.
- Reference texts
- G. Mastromarco - P. Totaro, Storia del teatro greco, Le Monnier, Firenze 2008;
M. Di Marco, La tragedia greca. Forma, gioco scenico, tecniche drammatiche. Nuova edizione, Carocci, Roma 2009.
G. Paduano, Il teatro antico, Laterza, Roma-Bari 2005.
Per la lettura dell’Antigone di Sofocle e dell’Edipo di Seneca si consigliano rispettivamente:
Sofocle, Antigone, Edipo re, Edipo a Colono. Testo greco a fronte, a cura di F. Ferrari, BUR, Milano 1982.
Lucio Anneo Seneca, Tragedie, Vol. 2: Edipo, Agamennone, Tieste. Testo latino a fronte, a cura di G. Giardina, Roma-Pisa 2009. - Educational objectives
- Knowledge of the social function of ancient theatre, of the dramaturgical aspects, of the authors and of the main works.
- Prerequisites
- Knowledge of Greek and Roman history.
- Teaching methods
- Lectures, Seminars.
- Learning verification modality
- Oral exam.
- Extended program
- The course is aimed at providing students with information on the shape of the theater building, the mask, the actors; the scenic space, the theatrical machines, the roles and movements on the stage; the agonal occasion, the religious, social and cultural function of the theatrical performance; the public.
The reading of Sophocles' Antigone will be proposed through which the student will practice understanding a dramatic text of the classical age in its rhetorical-communicative, metric-musical, thematic, historical-literary dimensions, and in terms of theatrical dynamics.
We will also read passages from Seneca's Oedipus, which deals with another moment of the same myth staged in Sophocles' Antigone.