Programme
Performing Arts - Actors Training
Level of Qualification|Semesters|ECTS
Bachelor | Semestral | 4
Year | Type of course unit | Language
2 |Mandatory |Português
Total of Working Hours | Duration of Contact (hours)
100 | 45
Code
ULP1977-15453
Recommended complementary curricular units
n/a
Mode of study
Face-to-face
Precedences
Não
Professional Internship
Não
Syllabus
1. The repertoire and its reading: preliminaries
1.1. ¿Eating the book¿: the devouring reading of the prophet Ezekiel
1.2. The Bible as the ¿great code of Art¿ (William Blake) or the ¿alphabet of the world¿ (Claudio Magris)
2. The biblical canon: an introduction to basic issues
3. Gil Vicente and the European religious theatre in the Middle Ages
3.1. The mistery plays and the typological symbolism
3.2. A Brief Summation of God¿s History, by Gil Vicente
3.3. Dialogue on the Ressurection, by Gil Vicente
4. Modernity and the aesthetics of transgression
4.1. Reading and analysis of Salome, by Oscar Wilde
5. The biblical rhizome ¿ from paraphrase to parody or allusion
5.1. Desire Under the Elms, by Eugene O¿Neill
5.2. The End of Possibilities, by Jean-Pierre Sarrazac
Objectives
1.To develop skills of interpretation and textual analysis:to discern sources and archetypes;to determine the dramatic structure,inter-subjective conflict,evolution of the character;to identify motives and problematics
2.To contribute to the development of a"dramaturgical hermeneutics"capable of mediating the multidimensional senses and to stimulate the pragmatics of reading:to understand is to understand oneself before the text
3.To encourage contact with key plays of dramatic repertoires(classic,modern and contemporary)
4.To put into perspective the text inscription within the dramatic production of its author and an epochal paradigm,assessing its participation in a program or aesthetic textual tradition
5.To correlate the dramatic texts and the biblical heritage that informs them,reflecting of the types of dialogue and confrontation they establish with specific sacred texts
6.To clarify the centrality of the Bible in the literary and symbolical activity in the West
Knowledge, abilities and skills to be acquired
To improve reading, analyses and commentary skills. To promote critical thinking and argumentation. To ensure knowledge of the founding texts of the Western dramatic tradition and of its historical and cultural context. To acquire a sense of the presence of biblical and theological elements in the dramatic repertoires of the Western culture. To distinguish different modalities of dialogue and confrontation that dramatic texts of several historical periods establish with the sacred texts.
Teaching methodologies and assessment
Collective reading of the proposed texts. Plight of the issues reaised and their submission to debate. Recourse to supplementary sources (other dramatic texts, films, records of performances). Lectures by the teacher in order to frame or summarize the activities described.
The assessment shall be based on reading assignements done in class as well as on dialogue in class about the texts (50%). Students will also conduct a schorlarly work that shall contextualize the texts of the corpus in a particular critical or theoretical perspective (50%).
References
Active:
O¿Neill, Eugene, Desejo Sob os Ulmeiros, trad. Jorge de Sena, Mem Martins, Publicações Europa-América, 2003.
Sarrazac, Jean-Pierre, O Fim das Possibilidades, trad. Isabel Lopes, Porto, Húmus/TNSJ, 2015.
Vicente, Gil, Breve Sumário da História de Deus, ed. José Camões, Lisboa, Assírio & Alvim/TNSJ, 2009.
Wilde, Oscar, Salomé, trad. Aníbal Fernandes, Lisboa, Assírio & Alvim, 2011.
Passive:
AA.VV., Vade-Mécum para o Leitor da Bíblia, Lisboa, Paulinas, 2002.
Alter, Robert/Kermode, Frank (ed.), The Literary Guide To The Bible, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 1990.
Frye, Northrop, The Great Code: The Bible and Literature, New York, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Publishers, 1983.
Mendonça, José Tolentino, Leitura Infinita: Bíblia e Interpretação, Lisboa, Assírio & Alvim, 2008.
Steiner, George, A Bíblia Hebraica e a Divisão entre Judeus e Cristãos, Lisboa, Relógio d¿Água, 2006.