Unit HISTORY OF THEATER AND ENTERTAINMENT
- Course
- Languages, comparative literatures and intercultural translation
- Study-unit Code
- GP005137
- Curriculum
- Lingue e letterature
- Teacher
- Alessandro Tinterri
- Teachers
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- Alessandro Tinterri
- Mariateresa Pizza
- Hours
- 42 ore - Alessandro Tinterri
- 36 ore - Mariateresa Pizza
- CFU
- 6
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2021
- Offered
- 2022/23
- Learning activities
- Caratterizzante
- Area
- Discipline linguistico-letterarie, artistiche, storiche, demoetnoantropologiche e filosofiche
- Academic discipline
- L-ART/05
- Type of study-unit
- Opzionale (Optional)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
- Language of instruction
- Italian
- Contents
- The course consists of 2 parts (each one of 36 hours): 1. History of Theatre from Vth century b.C. till nowadays, through plays and theatrical buildings; 2. Alberto Savino (1891-1952) and performing arts in first half of nineteenth century.
- Reference texts
- Part 1:R. Alonge e F. Perrelli, Storia del teatro e dello spettacolo (Utet 2102) or another handbook of History of Theatre in whatever Language; 3 plays in following list: Aeschylus, Persians; Sophocles, Oedipus; Euripides, Medea; Shakespeare, Hamlet; Molière, Tartuffe ou l'Imposteur (Tartuffe or the Hypocrite); Calderon de la Barca, La vida es sueno (Life is Dream); Goldoni, La locandiera (Yhe Pistress of the Inn); Ibsen, Et Dukkehjem (A Doll's House); Pirandello, Sei personaggi in cerca d'autore (Six Characters in search of an Author); Brecht, Mutter Courage und Ihre Kinder (Mother Courage and her Children).
Part 2:A. Tinterri, Savinio e lo spettacolo (Cue Press, 2018); 2 plays in following list: Capitano Ulisse, Alcesti di Samuele, Emma B vedova Giocasta, Il suo nome, La famiglia Mastinu. - Educational objectives
- Learning history of theatre from ancient Greeks to nowadays.
- Prerequisites
- In order to be able to understand and to know to tackle the course, particular prerequisites are not requested.
- Teaching methods
- The course is organized as follows: lectures will deal with all issues and problems regarding history of theatre; projections of movies and press reports concerning the main topics that will complement the lectures providing different perspectives on the same problem.
- Other information
- International and Erasmus students are invited to take the course. Readings and other course materials are also allowed in English or French or German or Spanish; oral exams may be taken in English or German or French or Spanish. Please contact the instructor for further details and to schedule an appointment during the first week of the Fall Semester.
- Learning verification modality
- Oral exam. The Exam includes only the final oral test consisting of a discussion-interview on the topics discussed during the course and examined in-depth through recommended texts. The test aims at assuring the level of knowledge and understanding, as well as synthesis, achieved by the student. Moreover, this interview will verify that the student is able to communicate, with method, propriety of Language and of exposure, what he has acquired. The duration of the test varies depending on the performance of the test itself and begins, as a rule, with a subject of the student's choice in order to put him at ease.
- Extended program
- The course consists of 2 parts (each one of 36 hours): 1. History of Theatre from Vth century b.C. till nowadays, through plays and theatrical buildings; 2. Alberto Savino (1891-1952) and performing arts in first half of nineteenth century.