DISMS05 Time in drama

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2024

The course is not taught in Autumn 2024

Extent and Intensity
0/2/7. 6 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
prof. PhDr. Margita Havlíčková (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. PhDr. Margita Havlíčková
Department of Theatre Studies – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: prof. PhDr. Margita Havlíčková
Supplier department: Department of Theatre Studies – Faculty of Arts
Prerequisites (in Czech)
Znalost vybraných dramatických textů v rozsahu od antiky po absurdní drama.
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
Students will learn to understand dramatic texts of different times and styles as specific statement about human condition in the world. Students will understand concept of horizontal and also vertical time, which is time of transcendence.
Learning outcomes
Student will be able: identify and describe specifics of chronotop in drama of different styles; analyse differences between dealing with time in tragedy and comedy; analyse different attitudes of dramatic hero to world; analyse dramatic character as a symbolic image of an era/epoch; write an essay defining dramatic hero of contemporary times.
Syllabus
  • Ancient Drama;
  • The Bible - crucial drama of Middle Ages;
  • Reneissance Humanism - N. Machiavelli;
  • Drama of Manneurism - L. de Vega, W. Shakespeare, Commedia dell arte;
  • Baroque Drama;
  • Drama of Enlightement as Social Morality;
  • Lonesome Hero of Romantic Drama;
  • Character in Realistic Drama;
  • 20th Century Drama
Literature
    required literature
  • HAVLÍČKOVÁ M.: Rovnováha dramatu, rovnováha světa, Svět a divadlo, č.5, roč. 2, r. l99l, s. 96 - 102
Teaching methods (in Czech)
Teoretická příprava - přednáška (2 hodiny týdně). Individuální příprava - četba zadaných textů, diskuse.
Assessment methods (in Czech)
Esej definující současný typ dramatického hrdiny. Ústní zkouška.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
The course is taught: every week.
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