Presentation

This course aims to understand the History and Cultural Historiography of Theater in diachrony and synchrony, differentiating them from the History of Theater Culture, problematizing historical schools and operative historiographic concepts.

A non-ethnocentric European history of theater is developed, in dialogue with other continents, especially Asia, bringing us closer to a comparative and global history, from the origins of the theater to the Medieval Theater

Programme

Performing Arts - Actors Training

Level of Qualification|Semesters|ECTS

| Semestral | 4

Year | Type of course unit | Language

1 |Mandatory |Português

Code

ULP1977-15438

Recommended complementary curricular units

Cultural History 2
 

Professional Internship

Não

Syllabus

1. From the New Cultural History (Bourdieu, Foucault, Burke and Chartier) to the History and Cultural Historiography of Theater.
The problem of the origins of the theater.
2.1. The origin of Greek theater and the cult of Dionysus.
2.2. Birth of tragedy and comedy; distinction between dramatic genres; the comic and the tragic as aesthetic categories.
3.The concept of dramatic mimesis: from Plato to Aristotle; the theorization of tragedy in Aristotle's "Poetics".
4.Dramatic practice in ancient Greece; from Aeschylus to Euripides.
5. Theater in its relationship with the polis: Sophocles and Aristophanes.
6. The theater in ancient Rome.
7. Medieval theater: from liturgical drama to mysteries

Objectives

Problematize Historical Schools and Operative Historiographic Concepts

Identify the persistent problems in the Western tradition of performing arts from antiquity to the Renaissance.

Understand the relationship of dramatic form to cultural and historical contexts, as a structuring value of the history of theater and the performing arts.

Identify the main features of classical performing arts.

Identify the structuring concepts of the tragic and the comic in their scenic expression.

To frame the theatrical phenomenon in the wider movement of Greek and Latin thought.

Understand the Christian influx into the medieval performing arts and the friction between the sacred and the profane.

Teaching methodologies and assessment

The class dynamics will be marked a) by the launch of problems of argumentative resolution around the points of the program; b) by the masterful exposition, to which the student's active investigation around relevant documentation and respective comment in class is associated; c) by the practical simulation of the texts read, according to innovative methodologies. The assessment includes student participation (40%), a practical exercise (10%) and an assessment test (50%). 25% of classes in remote mode

References

• [Preencher APELIDO], [Preencher Primeiros Nomes] - [Preencher Título]. [Preencher Edição. Local de publicação :Editor, Ano de publicação. Descrição física. Série. ISBN)]
• [Preencher APELIDO], [Preencher Primeiros Nomes] - [Preencher Título]. [Preencher Edição. Local de publicação :Editor, Ano de publicação. Descrição física. Série. ISBN)

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