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Study Plan
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Laurea in Lingue e letterature straniere - Enrollment from 2025/2026The Study Plan includes all modules, teaching and learning activities that each student will need to undertake during their time at the University.
Please select your Study Plan based on your enrollment year.
1° Year
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1st foreign language
2nd foreign language
1st foreign literature
2nd foreign literature
1 module between the following
2° Year activated in the A.Y. 2023/2024
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1st foreign language
2nd foreign language
1st foreign literature
2nd foreign literature
3° Year activated in the A.Y. 2024/2025
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1st foreign language
1st foreign literature
2nd foreign language
2nd foreign literature
1 module among the following (philology related to 1st or 2nd foreign language)
1 module between the following
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1st foreign language
2nd foreign language
1st foreign literature
2nd foreign literature
1 module between the following
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1st foreign language
2nd foreign language
1st foreign literature
2nd foreign literature
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1st foreign language
1st foreign literature
2nd foreign language
2nd foreign literature
1 module among the following (philology related to 1st or 2nd foreign language)
1 module between the following
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Legend | Type of training activity (TTA)
TAF (Type of Educational Activity) All courses and activities are classified into different types of educational activities, indicated by a letter.
History of Theatre and Performing Arts (2024/2025)
Teaching code
4S02252
Teacher
Coordinator
Credits
6
Language
Italian
Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)
L-ART/05 - PERFORMING ARTS
Period
I semestre (Area Lingue e letterature straniere) dal Sep 23, 2024 al Dec 21, 2024.
Courses Single
Authorized
Learning objectives
By analysing specific issues of the History of theatre, we intend to introduce the student to the theoretical and methodological tools offered by the representative medium with a particular regard to the comparison between different theatrical traditions. At the end of the course students will be able to contextualise, comprehend and examine on their own all the coefficients proposed by a prose show.
Prerequisites and basic notions
None.
Program
Course content In the last twenty years of the nineteenth century the idea of theatrical writing delivered by tradition entered into crisis and new ways of dramaturgical writing began to be investigated. In some of the most famous plays by Strindberg, Ibsen and Chekhov, interpersonal relationships are elaborated negatively, that is, showing the difficulties that continually stand in the way of communication. With a lucid and ruthless gaze, Henrik Ibsen, unsurpassed inventor of the theater of the bourgeois living room, portrays "the aridity of relationships and the brutality of instincts" of his contemporary society. Starting from some recent translations of his most famous dramas, much more careful than in the past not to misunderstand the scenic codes developed by the Norwegian author, during the lessons the hypocrisies and impulses hidden by the labyrinthine and claustrophobic structure of the plays will be highlighted. his living rooms. Reference texts 1. Notes from lessons and in-depth materials. Non-attending students will integrate the bibliography with the study of: Luigi Allegri, First lesson on theatre, Rome-Bari, Laterza, 2012. 2. Analysis of three plays by Ibsen chosen from the following: A Doll's House; Spectra; The wild duck; Rosmer House; The Lady of the Sea; Hedda Gabler. 3. Analysis of two supporting plays (one for each author): Chekhov: The Seagull; Uncle Vanya; The three sisters; The cherry orchard. Strindberg, The Father; Miss Julie; Dance of Death. 4. Analytical study of the following essays: Franco Perrelli, Teatro scandinavo, Rome, Carocci, 2024; Peter Szondi, Theory of modern drama, Torino Einaudi, 2000 (pp. 3-15); F. Perrelli, Henrik Ibsen. A profile, Bari, Page, 2006; R. Alonge, Ibsen. Opera and scenic fortune, Florence, Le Lettere, 1995, pp. 7-76. 5. Luigi Allegri (ed.), Reading the theatre, Rome, Carocci, 2023 (pp. 13-33). 6. Detailed analysis of a drama chosen from among the following starting from the analysis proposed in the volume Luigi Allegri (ed.), Reading the theatre, Rome, Carocci, 2023: Sophocles, Antigone; Machiavelli, The Mandrake; Shakespeare, Hamlet; Molière, Don Giovanni or The Stone Guest; Goethe, Faust; Hugo, Ernani; Chekhov, The Cherry Orchard; Pirandello, Six Characters in Search of an Author; Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot. 7. Study of the following manual: Roberto Alonge, Franco Perrelli, History of theater and entertainment, third edition, Turin, Utet, 2019, (chapters 1-12, pp. 1-259, excluding all insights marked with a sideline).
Bibliography
Didactic methods
Lectures alongside the analysis of sources of various kinds (archive documents, iconography, theatrical performances, films, video fragments, audio, etc.).
Conferences, sources, readings, and critical texts will be further specified during the course. Some materials, necessary for the preparation of the exam, will be available in the e-learning site. The critical commentary of the theatrical or cinematographic adaptations analysed during the lectures will be part of the examination. A specific bibliography will be provided for ERASMUS students.
N.B .
1. For the study of the manual, a cycle of free-attendance in-depth lessons will be activated.
2. Students not able to attend the lessons are invited to send an e-mail to the teacher.
Learning assessment procedures
Oral interview divided into two parts, to be held on the same day, with final evaluation expressed by a mark out of thirty.
Evaluation criteria
The questions proposed to the candidates will, on the one hand, test their knowledge of the History of theatre with exemplifications offered by one of the dramas of the list; on the other hand, they will test the ability to analyze theoretical concepts and performances following the models showed during the lessons.
Criteria for the composition of the final grade
The final grade is determined by the average of the scores obtained in the two parts of the exam.
Exam language
Italiano