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ITALIAN LITERATURE AND DRAMA IN THE MODERN AGE Single discipline educational activity
Course Sheet Academic Year of enrolment:
Professor and Collaborators:
Hours of classroom activity:
Prerequisites:
Good knowledge of the history of Italian literature and the history of theater.
Objectives
Contents The pen, the stage and the New World in the theater of the nineteenth century.
Extended Syllabus The course will focus on the analysis of particular aspects of the Italian theater of the nineteenth century and on the knowledge of the authors and texts that characterized the first half, as well as on the diffusion by the great actors of this repertoire in Italy, in Europe and above all in the new World. The Americas, in fact, constituted an incredibly receptive landing place for Italian dramaturgy and for its textuality in the original language. The Grand'attori configured themselves, in that temporal juncture, as authentic "passeurs" of the pen and the scene who had the merit of spreading romantic writings and the suggestive modalities of Italian acting first in the Old Continent and then in the United States, in America Latin and even in Oceania and Africa. They dared to stage Dante, Manzoni, Alfieri in Italian but also the labors of little-known contemporary playwrights such as Camma, tragedy in three acts by Giuseppe Montanelli, La creola della Luigiana, comedy in 5 acts by Alberto Nota, Amor ch'a nullo amato amar perdona, a one-act comedy by Luigi Suñer; and again Sister Teresa by Luigi Camoletti, Francesca da Rimini by Silvio Pellico, Pia de 'Tolomei by Carlo Marenco with a success of overwhelming proportions.
Recommended Bibliography -Luciana Pasquini, Il baule del Grand'attore. Letteratura e teatro nell'Italia del Risorgimento, Carabba, 2016.
- Luciana Pasquini, Adelaide Ristori in America e a Cuba, Carabba, 2015.
-Luciana Pasquini, La penna e la scena. Volume in corso di stampa.
NON-ATTENDANT students must add:
Cristina Jandelli, I ruoli nel Teatro italiano tra Otto e Novecento, Firenze, Le Lettere, 2002.
Teaching Methods Lectures; workshops. Due to the relevance of the course within the MA
programme, it may include seminars that will be led by renown
international scholars.
Evaluation methods Verification of learning:
Oral exam. Students are expected to present the literary texts from the
reading list with reference to the critical discussion offered during the
lessons and seminars.
Marks range from 18 to 30. Top marks will be given to students who
achieve all of the learning objectives of the course.
The final assessment consists of an oral exam on the entire syllabus. The
aim is to assess the students’ skills and in particular their understanding
of the issues discussed during the course, their knowledge of the
bibliography in the reading list, the correct command of the specific
language as well as of critical and methodological abilities. The grading
scale ranges from 1 to 30 with honours (cum laude): 1-17 fail, 18-21
sufficient, 22-24 fair, 25-27 good, 28-29 very good, 30-30 with honours
(cum laude) excellent.
Contacts/More Information ORGANISATION OF TEACHING:
- ECTS 6.
- 34 hours of lessons, 4 hours of seminar, 4 hours of workshop.