DRAMATURGY AND HISTORY OF ANCIENT DRAMA

By providing methodological coordinates for studying primary and secondary sources and for interpretation and analysis of textual and iconographic sources, the class prepares the student to deal the reading of texts of ancient theatre.

1) Knowledge and understanding: in-depth knowledge of the history of ancient theatre also in a diachronic sense. Understanding of the dramatic text analysed from a philological and dramaturgical point of view.

2) Ability to apply knowledge and understanding: ability to analyse a theatrical text in its content and formal aspects, also in relation to its ancient and modern staging

3) Autonomy of judgement: acquisition of a critical perspective towards the analysis of texts, capable of independently assessing the reliability of information and interpretations.

4) Communication skills: acquisition of an ability to communicate the contents and forms of ancient theatrical texts, also in relation to the work of translation and dramaturgy for the contemporary stage.

5) Learning ability: ability to use the tools of philological and dramaturgical analysis for the purposes of interpretation.

1st part (general section) Module A
- From Myth to Drama: the origins of tragedy and comedy

- Theatrical texts and iconography (V / IV century BC)

- Aristotle's theories on the tragedy

2nd part – monographic section Module B

- Ajax by Sophocles: a dramaturgical analysis

A       Methodology (4 CFU)

TEXTS

– Aristoteles, Poetica, with original text and translation; recommended edition: Aristotele, Poetica, edited by D. Lanza, BUR, Milano 1987, pp. 115-223.

BOOKS

– G. Mastromarco, P. Totaro, Storia del teatro greco, Le Monnier Università/Mondadori Education, Milano 2008, pp.1-294.

CHAPTERS

­ Giulia Bordignon (ed. by), Scene dal mito, Guaraldi, Rimini, 2015, pp.7-144 (methodological essays); pp. 163-228, or, alternatively, pp. 229-312 (case studies: allegories; Niobe; Laocoön, or: Philoctetes, Medea).

B Dramaturgical analysis of Ajax by Sophocles (2 CFU)

TEXT and COMMENTARY

– Sophocles, Ajax. Recommended edition: Translation by M.G.Ciani, Marsilio, Venezia 1999.

 

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