SUS_48 Chapters from Theater History II.

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2025
Extent and Intensity
2/0/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Taught in person.
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Veronika Valentová, Ph.D. (lecturer), PhDr. Dagmar Koudelková (deputy)
PhDr. Aleš Filip, Ph.D. (alternate examiner)
Guaranteed by
PhDr. Aleš Filip, Ph.D.
Department of Musicology – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Ing. Alena Albíniová
Supplier department: Department of Musicology – Faculty of Arts
Prerequisites (in Czech)
SUS_47 Chapters from Theater History
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 130 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/130, only registered: 0/130, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/130
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
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Course objectives
The course is outlined as a second part of two-semester lecture that aims at capturing the most important developmental phases of world theatre and drama. The lecture will focus on some historic and style epochs (the Baroque, Classicism, Romanticism, Realism, Symbolism, Theatre of the Absurd, off-off theatre etc.) as well as principal works and personalities of world drama and theatre, including selections from their work (Moliere, J. W. Goethe, K. S. Stanislavskij, B. Brecht, S. Beckett, P. Brook...)..
Learning outcomes
At the end of this course, students should be able to take bearings in the theatre history and to analyse and interpret the most important dramatic works.
Syllabus
  • CLASSICISM (Corneille, Racine, Moliere)
  • ROMANTISM - Pre-Romantic movements (Sturm und Drang), Germany (Grabbe, Kleist, Büchner…), France (Hugo, de Musset, Mérimée)
  • SYMBOLISM AND THE MODERN (Théâtre d'Art, Théâtre de l'Oeuvre, Paul Fort, Lugné-Poë, Alfréd Jarry, Blok...)
  • ABSURD THEATER (Beckett, Ionesco, Arrabal, Adamov; Sarrautová, Durasová)
  • POLITICAL THEATER IN THE XX. CENTURY (B. Brecht, E. Piscator, P. Weiss, E. Jelinek)
  • EXPERIMENTAL THEATER OF THE 2ND HALF OF THE XX. CENTURY (Living Theatre /Beck, Malina/, Divadlo Laboratoř /Grotowski/, Peter Brook, Odin Teatret /Barba/
  • CONTEMPORARY DRAMA (S. Sheppard, T. Stoppard, M. Ravenhill, B.-M. Koltes, E. Walsh)
Literature
    recommended literature
  • BROCKETT, Oscar G. Dějiny divadla. Translated by Milan Lukeš. Praha: Lidové noviny, 1999, 948 s. ISBN 8070080965. info
  • BERNARD, Jan. Co je divadlo. 1. vydání. Praha: Státní pedagogické nakladatelství, 1983, 330 stran. info
  • BLAHNÍK, Vojtěch Kristián. Světové dějiny divadla. Praha: Aventinum, 1929, xiv, 622. info
Teaching methods
Lectures, homeworks
Assessment methods
The course is concluded by a writen exam and a essay.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: every week.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2020, Spring 2021, Spring 2022, Spring 2023, Spring 2024.
  • Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2025, recent)
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