| CODE | THS2101 | |||||||||
| TITLE | Development of Theatre Texts 2 | |||||||||
| UM LEVEL | 02 - Years 2, 3 in Modular Undergraduate Course | |||||||||
| MQF LEVEL | 5 | |||||||||
| ECTS CREDITS | 5 | |||||||||
| DEPARTMENT | Theatre Studies | |||||||||
| DESCRIPTION | This study-unit examines the shift in meaning of 'text'. It shows how in particular historical periods the concept of text is extended to include the actor’s work, and how this will eventually lead to the concept of a text without words, or questions the notion of character or plot. Forms of text such as bourgeois drama, melodrama, epic theatre are examined. Theories and corresponding plays will be the mainstay of the study-unit. Although this study-unit should be seen as a continuation of THS2100, it can also be taken independently of it. Study-unit Aims: The study-unit aims to: - Broaden the meaning of the term 'text' as related to theatre and performance phenomena; - Engage critically with theories of the theatre; - Engage critically with the history of the theatrical text through contemporary developments of the term ‘text'. Learning Outcomes: 1. Knowledge & Understanding: By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - Demonstrate a broad knowledge of playtexts from the Greeks to the present; - Have an in-depth knowledge of corresponding theories; - Cross-refer playtexts and theories; - Discuss styles in relation to historical background; - Situate playtexts and theories in their sociocultural contexts. 2. Skills: By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - Demonstrate skills in sophisticated thought, self-reflection, and independent learning; - Demonstrate communication and presentational skills in writing, debate, and peer presentations; - Demonstrate skills in teamwork and research project organisation; - Carry out research using appropriate research methodologies. Main Text/s and any supplementary readings: Texts to be covered across THS2100 and THS2101: Aristotle's Poetics, Horace's Ars Poetica, as well as readings from Tertullian, St Augustine, Donatus, Castelvetro, Cinthio, Robortello, Scaliger, Guarini, Lope de Vega, Sir Philip Sidney, Ben Jonson, Moliere, Boileau, Goethe, Schiller, Artaud, Beaumarchais, Sarah Kane, and others. Main Texts: - M. Carlson, Theories of the Theatre (London: Cornell University, 1984) - M. Sidnell, ed., Sources of Dramatic Theory (Cambridge: CUP, 1991) - B. Dukore, ed., Dramatic Theory and Criticism. Greeks to Grotowski (Parts of) (Hawaii: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich College Publishers, 1974) - Kotte, Andreas, Studying theatre : phenomena, structures and functions (LIT Verlag; 2010). Supplementary readings: A selection of plays will be given in function of the theorists discussed. Plays may include the following: Oedipus Rex - Sophocles The Oresteia - Aeschylus (in particular, the Libation Bearers) Electra - Sophocles Electra - Euripedes Oedipus - Seneca Everyman - Anon The Mandrake Root - Machiavelli Lena - Ariosto Phedre - Racine Fuente Ovejuna - Lope de Vega The Comic Illusion - Corneille Le Cid - Corneille Moliere - The School for Wives criticised The impromptu of Versailles Tartuffe The Barber of Seville - Beaumarchais The Robbers - Schiller The Doll's house - Ibsen Miss Julie - Strindberg Woyseck - Buchner The Inspector General - Gogol Waiting for Godot - Beckett The rise and fall of Arturo Ui - Brecht Threepenny Opera - Brecht Look back in Anger - Osborne The Crucible - Arthur Miller 4.48 Psychosis - Sarah Kane and any other plays advised by the lecturer. Most of these texts are found in the UoM library, and students will be directed accordingly to their availability. |
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| STUDY-UNIT TYPE | Lecture, Seminar & Independent Study | |||||||||
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| LECTURER/S | Stefan Aquilina |
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