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ITALIAN THEATER LITERATURE Single discipline educational activity
Course Sheet Academic Year of enrolment:
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Prerequisites:
Students will be familiar with the basic notions of Italian literary history
Objectives Contents The theatrical text and the "reforms" of the comedy.
We will analyze at first the differences between narrative text and dramatic text, especially considering the structuring categories of space and time and analyzing how theatre incorporates space within the writing. The various parts of the theatrical text will be analyzed (syntactic units and conventions of dramatic and spectacular writing), and we will focus particularly on the functions of the choir and its evolution over time. We will then follow the development of the comedy, starting from Renaissance comedy, through the commedia dell'arte, the Goldoni reform and the Pirandello’s one, and the comic forms of dialect theatre, showing also the twentieth-century transformation of comedy into bourgeois drama and the transition from theatre company lead to theatre director.
Extended Syllabus The theatrical text and the "reforms" of the comedy.
We will analyze at first the differences between narrative text and dramatic text, especially considering the structuring categories of space and time and analyzing how theatre incorporates space within the writing. The various parts of the theatrical text will be analyzed (syntactic units and conventions of dramatic and spectacular writing), and we will focus particularly on the functions of the choir and its evolution over time. We will then follow the development of the comedy, starting from Renaissance comedy, through the commedia dell'arte, the Goldoni reform and the Pirandello’s one, and the comic forms of dialect theatre, showing also the twentieth-century transformation of comedy into bourgeois drama and the transition from theatre company lead to theatre director.
Texts to study:
Readings:
Recommended Bibliography Texts to study:
-Simona Morando, La Letteratura teatrale italiana, Roma, Carocci, 2023.
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Teaching Methods Power-point assisted Lectures; seminars, occasionally conducted by specialist guest speakers
Evaluation methods Verification of learning:
Students will take an oral exam, conversing on the topics dealt with in class and listed in this syllabus. They will be asked 6-7 questions meant to assess their ability to express themselves correctly, and their knowledge of the historical context, the socio-cultural issues, as well as the stylistic and thematic peculiarities of the authors’ works. Their ability to understand and conduct a critical analysis of the literary texts listed in this syllabus will be also assessed.
Contacts/More Information Attendance is not mandatory. The syllabus for the students not attending the course has not changed.
