The course aims to provide students, through a thorough analysis of the fundamental theoretical texts, with a historical-critical framework of the main artistic concepts and theoretical reflections related to dramaturgical, staging and acting practices in Europe starting from the fifth century BC.
Reccomended Reading:
- Franco Perrelli, Poetiche e teorie del teatro, Roma, Carrocci Editore, 2015.
Mandatory Readings:
- Marco De Marinis, Aristotele teorico dello spettacolo nella «Poetica», 2009. https://drammaturgia.fupress.net/saggi/saggio.php?id=4275
- Claudio Vicentini, Da Platone a Plutarco. L'emozionalismo nella teoria della recitazione del mondo antico, 2005. https://drammaturgia.fupress.net/saggi/saggio.php?id=2039
- Giovanni Macchia, Il paradiso della ragione. L’ordine e l’avventura nella tradizione letteraria francese, Torino, Einaudi, 1972. Solo i saggi: La polemica su Cid, pp. 48-61; Ragione e morale: il processo al teatro, pp. 72-82.
- Franco Perrelli, Il mulo di Lessing, in «Drammaturgia», 12(2), 2015, pp. 129-139. https://oajournals.fupress.net/index.php/drammaturgia/article/view/8182
- Paola Degli Esposti, L’attore nell’Ottocento europeo. La prassi e la teoria, Parte II: La teoria, Roma, Dino Audino editore, 2021, pp. 75-141.
Learning Objectives
The course aims to provide knowledge on the main theoretical reflections related to dramaturgical, staging and acting practices in Europe from the ancient world to the twentieth century.
Knowledge and understanding: acquisition of the historical-critical framework within which the main theories of the European stage are developed.
Applied knowledge and understanding: acquisition of an adequate conceptual framework relating to the main theories of stage and acting; ability to find bibliographic and documentary sources relating to the topics of the course.
Autonomy of judgment: acquisition of critical-analytical skills of theoretical texts and critical bibliography in the context of theatrical studies.
Communication skills: acquisition of specific terminology relating to staging and acting theories.
Ability to learn: autonomous use of an analytical model for the study of theories on stage and acting.
Prerequisites
Good understanding and communication skills in Italian. DAMS students are strongly advised to acquire 12 credits in Storia del teatro e dello spettacolo before taking this exam.
Teaching Methods
Face-to-face lectures. Extensive use of primary sources through pdf files, that will be downloadable from the website of the Università di Firenze (Moodle platform http://e-l.unifi.it/).
Further information
The attendance is mandatory to students enrolled full time, whereas part-time students who are unable to attend the lessons, may take the exam according to a study program provided by the teacher during her office hours.
Type of Assessment
Oral test. The exam aims at verifying the knowledge acquired on topics discussed during the course and treated in the additional readings (see section “Testi di riferimento").
Course program
The course offers a critical exploration of the main theoretical reflections related to dramaturgical, staging and acting practices in Europe from the ancient world to the twentieth century.
Chronological and thematic frame of reference: the function of theatrical art for the playwrights of the fifth century B.C. and the philosophers of the fourth century B.C. in Greece; the critical reflections in Rome in the Republican era and in the late antique period; the condemnation of the theatre in the early Middle Ages and its recovery in a religious key in the late Middle Ages; the reworking of the ancient in the speculations of the humanistic and Renaissance periods; classicist thought and dramaturgical practices in France, Germany and England; the theoretical foundations of the eighteenth-century bourgeois drama; romantic poetics and nineteenth-century realisms; the affirmation of the autonomy of the show between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.