B003501 - HISTORY OF THEATRE AND PERFORMING ARTS

Italian.

Outlines of the history of Western performing arts: places, actors, drama, poetics, patrons and public from Ancient Age to the 20th century.

Part I (professor Stefano Mazzoni): from Ancient Age to Baroque Age.

Part II (professor Maria Chiara Barbieri): from the 17th to the 20th century.

Part I (professor Stefano Mazzoni)

1. Lecture notes (essential)

2. Iconographic Atlas
- Stefano MAZZONI, Atlante iconografico. Spazi e forme dello spettacolo in occidente dal mondo antico a Wagner, new enlarged edition, Corazzano (Pisa), Titivillus, 2017 (N.B. including the Introduction and the Prologue, pp. 9-27).

3. reference framework
- Ludovico ZORZI, Scena, in Enciclopedia, Torino, Einaudi, 1981, vol. XII, pp. 495-528.

4. Texts
- 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, Nero tragicus cantor, in «Dionysus ex machina», III, 2012, pp. 226-243 (http://www.dionysusexmachina.it/pdf/articoli/93.pdf).
- Sara MAMONE, Il teatro nella Firenze medicea, Bologna, Cuepress, 2018, pp. 7-59.
- Stefano MAZZONI, «La gente de esta çiudad es la más vana y loca del mundo». Siena Carlo V i Medici e lo spettacolo accademico (1530-1703), in C. Bino, S. Mamone, S. Mazzoni, C. Pagnini, Forme dello spettacolo in Europa tra Medioevo e Antico regime, edited by S. Mamone, Perugia, Morlacchi, 2018, pp. 69-141.
- Stefano MAZZONI, Teatri italiani del Cinquecento: Vincenzo Scamozzi architetto-scenografo, in Drammaturgie dello spazio dal teatro greco ai multimedia, edited by Stefano Mazzoni, in «Drammaturgia», 2003, n. 10, pp. 103-40.
- Siro FERRONE, La Commedia dell’Arte. Attrici e attori italiani in Europa (XVI-XVIII secolo), Torino, Einaudi, 2014, pp. 3-126.


Part II (professor Maria Chiara Barbieri)

1. Lecture notes

2. Hand-book
- Cesare MOLINARI, Storia del teatro, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 1996 (or subsequent reprints), pp. 103-294 (chaps. XIII-XXXIV).

3. Texts
Two of the following texts:
- Roberto ALONGE, Teatro e spettacolo nel secondo Ottocento (1988), Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2002.
- Siro FERRONE, La vita e il teatro di Carlo Goldoni, Venezia, Marsilio, 2011.
- Mirella SCHINO, La nascita della regia teatrale, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2003.
- Elena RANDI, Il teatro romantico, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2016.

4. Educational tools and materials
- Materiali didattici 2017-18 Corso di Laurea in DAMS. Images and texts examined during the lessons will be available to enrolled students on Moodle, hosted on the Università di Firenze website e-l.unifi.it/.

Students DAMS enrolled under M.D. no. 270/04: the course is composed of two indivisible sections. 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 course aims at providing specific historical philological competences on the history of theatre in the West fron the Ancient Age to the 20th century.

KNOWLWDGE AND UNDERSTANDING:
Knowledge of the History of the Western performing arts (from the ancient world to the 20th century) and understanding of complex systems of relations (actors, scenery, dramaturgy, public, patrons).

APPLYING KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING:
Know –according to a contextual view- the main features of the History of the Western performing arts (from the ancient world to the 20th century).

MAKING JUDGEMENTS:
Developing of critical judgement.

COMUNICATION SKILL:
use of proper terms of the history of spectacle.

LEARNING SKILLS:
Develop the learning skills, which are essential, in order to carry on the studies critically and autonomously.

University-entrance degree. A good knowledge of European history.

Face-to-face lectures: 72 hours.

Part I (professor Stefano Mazzoni)

Face-to-face lectures (36 hours). A historical-philological, global and contextual approach to the topics studied. The course will be integrated with the showing of pictures and video. The website Moodle will be used.

Part II (professor Maria Chiara Barbieri)

Face-to-face lectures (36 hours). A historical-philological, global and contextual approach to the topics studied. Extensive use of iconographic and written sources through powerpoint slides, that will be downloadable from the Università degli Studi di Firenze website (Moodle platform http://e-l.unifi.it/).

Course attendance is mandatory to students enrolled under M.D. no. 270/04, whereas part-time students and those enrolled under M.D. no. 509/99 who are unable to attend the lessons, may take the exam according to a study program provided by the teachers during their office hours.
Office hours timetable is provided on this page, whereas last minute announcements of unscheduled events (change of office hours, lectures, sessions of exams, etc.) are displayed on the scrolling notice-board of the Scuola home-page http://www.st-umaform.unifi.it/. If necessary, foreign students could agree upon a special program.

Oral test. The student will be examined on the course contents and on the required readings.

At the exam, students should be able to:
1) know the contents of the topics of the face-to-face lessons;
2) understand the main theoretical categories of the Western performing arts;
3) express properly their own opinions;
4) Discuss and judge critically the topics and the bibliography of the course.

Part I (professor Stefano Mazzoni)

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. 7. Melodrama, Italian theatre and the baroque spectacle.


Part II (professor Maria Chiara Barbieri)

The theatrical events are analyzed within a complex framework and related to their cultural, social and productive contexts, but are also examined in a diacronic, ample perspective, through which are explored the birth and development of the main spectacular forms, of dramaturgy, of theories and practices related to the stage, to the theatrical buildings and spaces, to acting, and, also, the progress of the social and professional figure of the actor, the patronage, the making of the audience and the performance reception.
Chronological and thematic framework: Elizabethan public and private playhouses and theatrical activities; 17th century classicism; Bourgeois drama in the 18th and 19th centuries and development of the actor's role; Theatre directing at the end of the 19th century and its development in the 20th century.