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B003501 - HISTORY OF THEATRE AND PERFORMING ARTS
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Academic Year 2014-15
Course year
First year - First Semester
Belonging Department
History, Archaeology, Geography, Fine and Performing Arts (SAGAS)
Course Type
Single education field course
Scientific Area
L-ART/05 - PERFORMING ARTS
Credits
12
Teaching Hours
60
Teaching Term
22/09/2014 ⇒ 19/12/2014
Attendance required
Yes
Type of Evaluation
Final Grade
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Lectureship
Teaching Language
Italian
Course Content
Outlines of the history of Western performing arts: places, actors, drama, poetics, patrons and public.
Suggested readings (Search our library's catalogue)
1. Lecture notes (essential)
2. Iconographic Atlas:
- Stefano MAZZONI, Atlante iconografico. Spazi e forme dello spettacolo in occidente dal mondo antico a Wagner, Corazzano (Pisa), Titivillus, 2008(4) (N.B. including the introduction, pp. 7-13).
3. Manuale
- Cesare MOLINARI, Storia del teatro, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 1996 (N.B. excluding the following chapters: I, XXVII-XXVIII, XXXIII- XXXVI).
4. Studi
- Oddone LONGO, Lo spazio del teatro greco, in Drammaturgie dello spazio dal teatro greco ai multimedia, edited by Stefano Mazzoni, in «Drammaturgia», 2003, n. 10, pp. 15-37.
- Stefano MAZZONI, Maschera: storie di un oggetto teatrale, in Attori di carta. Motivi iconografici dall’antichità all’Ottocento, edited by Renzo Guardenti, Roma, Bulzoni, 2005, pp. 21-54 (with the relevant illustrations on the cdrom that accompanies the volume).
- Stefano MAZZONI, Teatri romani: immagini d’impero e d'attori e altre questioni, in Studi di Storia dello spettacolo. Omaggio a Siro Ferrone, edited by Stefano Mazzoni, Firenze, Le Lettere, 2011, pp. 15-35.
- Sara MAMONE, Il teatro nella Firenze medicea, new revised edition, Milano, Mursia, 1991, pp. 17-88.
- Stefano MAZZONI, L’Olimpico di Vicenza: un teatro e la sua ‘perpetua memoria’, Firenze, Le Lettere, 2010, pp. 87-207 (cap. IV. Lo spettacolo inaugurale).
- Siro FERRONE, La Commedia dell’Arte. Attrici e attori italiani in Europa (XVI-XVIII secolo), Torino, Einaudi, 2014.
- Siro FERRONE, La vita e il teatro di Carlo Goldoni, Venezia, Marsilio, 2011.
2. Iconographic Atlas:
- Stefano MAZZONI, Atlante iconografico. Spazi e forme dello spettacolo in occidente dal mondo antico a Wagner, Corazzano (Pisa), Titivillus, 2008(4) (N.B. including the introduction, pp. 7-13).
3. Manuale
- Cesare MOLINARI, Storia del teatro, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 1996 (N.B. excluding the following chapters: I, XXVII-XXVIII, XXXIII- XXXVI).
4. Studi
- Oddone LONGO, Lo spazio del teatro greco, in Drammaturgie dello spazio dal teatro greco ai multimedia, edited by Stefano Mazzoni, in «Drammaturgia», 2003, n. 10, pp. 15-37.
- Stefano MAZZONI, Maschera: storie di un oggetto teatrale, in Attori di carta. Motivi iconografici dall’antichità all’Ottocento, edited by Renzo Guardenti, Roma, Bulzoni, 2005, pp. 21-54 (with the relevant illustrations on the cdrom that accompanies the volume).
- Stefano MAZZONI, Teatri romani: immagini d’impero e d'attori e altre questioni, in Studi di Storia dello spettacolo. Omaggio a Siro Ferrone, edited by Stefano Mazzoni, Firenze, Le Lettere, 2011, pp. 15-35.
- Sara MAMONE, Il teatro nella Firenze medicea, new revised edition, Milano, Mursia, 1991, pp. 17-88.
- Stefano MAZZONI, L’Olimpico di Vicenza: un teatro e la sua ‘perpetua memoria’, Firenze, Le Lettere, 2010, pp. 87-207 (cap. IV. Lo spettacolo inaugurale).
- Siro FERRONE, La Commedia dell’Arte. Attrici e attori italiani in Europa (XVI-XVIII secolo), Torino, Einaudi, 2014.
- Siro FERRONE, La vita e il teatro di Carlo Goldoni, Venezia, Marsilio, 2011.
Learning Objectives
The course aims at providing students with the methodological tools for studying the history of spectacle, understood as the history of performative and public events based on complex systems of relations (actors, scenery, dramaturgy, public, patrons).
The corse aims at providing specific historical philological competences on the history of theatre in the West fron the ancient world to the 20th century.
The corse aims at providing specific historical philological competences on the history of theatre in the West fron the ancient world to the 20th century.
Prerequisites
University-entrance degree. A good knowledge of European history.
Teaching Methods
A historical-philological, global and contextual approach to the topics studied. The course will be integrated with the showing of pictures and video. It is also anticipated that an outside workshop will be initiated by the teacher (The reconnaissance and analysis of historical theatres) which will enable students to acquire a further 3 CFU, by experiencing on site what has been explained in the lectures.
Further information
Attendance is obligatory for those students which are enrolled according to the regulation ex.270
Part time students and those enrolled according to the regulation ex.509 will be able to benefit from a special programme which will be assigned to them by the teacher.
Part time students and those enrolled according to the regulation ex.509 will be able to benefit from a special programme which will be assigned to them by the teacher.
Type of Assessment
The examination will consist of an oral test.
Course program
1. The Archaic Greek, Classical and Hellenistic theatres.
2. Practices and buildings of spectacle at Rome. 3. The space of the medieval theatre, profane and sacred. 4. The birth of the modern theatre. 5. From the space to the building of theatres in Italy of 16th century. 6. The Commedia dell’Arte, Shakespeare and Molière. 7. Melodrama, Italian theatre and the baroque spectacle. 8. The 18th century reform of the theatre. 9. Carlo Goldoni as theatre man. 10. The actor during the 19th century. 11. The historical avant-garde.
2. Practices and buildings of spectacle at Rome. 3. The space of the medieval theatre, profane and sacred. 4. The birth of the modern theatre. 5. From the space to the building of theatres in Italy of 16th century. 6. The Commedia dell’Arte, Shakespeare and Molière. 7. Melodrama, Italian theatre and the baroque spectacle. 8. The 18th century reform of the theatre. 9. Carlo Goldoni as theatre man. 10. The actor during the 19th century. 11. The historical avant-garde.