FF:DVQ023 Hippolytos and Faidra - Course Information

DVQ023 Hippolytos and Faidra

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2016

Extent and Intensity

2/0. 3 credit(s) (plus 2 credits for an exam). Type of Completion: zk (examination).

Teacher(s)

Guaranteed by

prof. PhDr. Margita Havlíčková
Department of Theatre Studies – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Mgr. Eliška Kubartová, Ph.D.
Supplier department: Department of Theatre Studies – Faculty of Arts

Timetable

Mon 12:30–14:05 G01

Prerequisites

Prerequisite: DVQ019

Course Enrolment Limitations

The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
The capacity limit for the course is 15 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/15, only registered: 0/15, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/15

fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with

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Course objectives

The aim of the course is to introduce students into interpreting ancient drama through various theoretical perspectives, such as close reading, performance ctiticism, atc.; to encourage them to critically approach and apply information from secondary sources onto the textual material subject to interpretation; to enable them, based on the given texts, to describe the differences between Greek and Roman theatre and drama.

Syllabus

1. Introduction into the ways of interpreting ancient drama (i.e. mythological approach, close reading, performance criticism, and ritualistic approach), their advantages, disadvantages, and limits.
2. Hippolitos by Euripides: Introduction, reading.
3.-6. Reading Hippolytos.
7. Phaedra by Seneca: Introduction, reading.
8.-11. Reading Phaedra.
12. Presentation of students projects.

Literature

required literature

EURIPIDÉS. Hippolytos, a jiné tragédie. Translated by Rudolf Mertlík. Vydání v tomto souboru prv. Praha: Svoboda, 1986, 453 stran. URL info
SENECA. Faidra. Překlad Eva Stehlíková. Praha: Artur, 2011.
Ch. 5 „Approaching Greek Drama“ in STOREY, Ian Christopher a Allan, Arlene. A guide to ancient Greek drama. 2nd ed. Chichester: Wiley Blackwell, 2014.
Kap. 1 „Text a představení“ in ČECHVALA, Jakub. Dramatické uchopení mýtu: tradice, manipulace, interpretace. Disertační práce, Filozofická fakulta Univerzity Karlovy (nepubl.).

recommended literature

WINNINGTON-INGRAM, R. P. "Hippolytus: A Study in Causation". Entretiens Hardt 6, 1958, 169-191.
KNOX M. W. „The Hippolytus of Euripides“. Yale Classical Studies 13, 1952, 3–31.
FITCH J. G. a S. McELDUFF. „Construction of the Self in Senecan Drama. Mnemosyne 55, 2002, 1, 18–40.
ROISMAN, H. M. „A New Look at Seneca’s Phaedra“. In Goeorge W. M. Harrison (ed.). Seneca in Performance. Duckworth: Classical Press of Wales, 2000, 73-86.
GOFF, Barbara. The Noose of Words: Readings of Desire, Violence and Language in Euripides' Hippolytus. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990.
CONACHER, D. J. "The Hippolytus". In id. Euripidean Drama: Myth, Theme, and Structure. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1968.
SEGAL, C. P. "Shame and Purity in Euripides’ Hippolytus". Hermes 98 (1970), 278–99

not specified

HARRISON, George William Mallory a Vayos LIAPIS. Performance in Greek and Roman theatre. Leiden: Brill, 2013, vii, 590 stran. ISBN 978-90-04-24457-3.
TAPLIN, Oliver. Greek tragedy in action. London: Routledge, 1997, x, 203 s., [8] s. obr. příl. ISBN 0415043123.
ERASMO, Mario. Roman tragedy: theatre to theatricality. 1st ed. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2004, xii, 211 s. ISBN 0-292-70242-6.
EURIPIDÉS. Sämtliche Tragödien und Fragmente. Bd. I, Alkestis ; Medeia ; Hippolytos. Edited by Gustav Adolf Seeck, Translated by Ernst Buschor. München: Heimeran Verlag, 1972, 340 s. ISBN 3776521260. info
EURIPIDES. The Hippolytus. Translated by Gilbert Murray. London: George Allen and Unwin, 1920, 86 s. info

Teaching methods

Individual reading, class reading, lecture, group project.

Assessment methods

Credits given based on homework, class work, and group project. Attendance is obligatory.

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