ITALIAN THEATRICAL LITERATURE

Single discipline educational activity

Course Sheet

Course code:

LT0072

Academic Year of enrolment:

2017

Year of supply:

2018/2019

Type of Course:

Characterising

Degree:

Course of 1st Cycle Degree in HUMANITIES

Disciplinary Sector:

ITALIAN LITERATURE

Location:

CHIETI

Credits:

Programme Year:

Professor and Collaborators:

DI NALLO Antonella

Cycle:

Second semester

Hours of classroom activity:

Individual study hours:

162

Objectives

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

Theatre literature, which may said to be an integral part of Italian Literature, tackles Italian dramaturgical production with a special eye to the text, one of the fundamental components of the theatre archipelago. Dialoguing with the disciplines of te show, it shares the main learning objectives as the study course in Letters: to get to know in a critical manner the evolution of Italian dramaturgy with reference to the
history of literary genres; to learn one’s way among the themes and stylistic features of the individual authors and the periods to which they belong; to know how to analyse the dramaturgical component of the theatre in a theoretical and historiographical perspective that takes into account the historically complex relationship between the universe of the spectacle and that of literature.

LEARNING OUTCOMES

On completion of the course, students must demonstrate:
1. that they can recognise the specific physiognomy of a theatre text and the stylistic features linked to specific periods and individual authors;
2. that they can analyse, in the context of the theatre phenomenon, the dramaturgical component in a theoretical and historiographical perspective that takes into account the historically complex relationship between the universe of the spectacle and that of literature.
3. that they can place the theatre text in its ideological-cultural context.
4. the ability to carry out an exhaustive and updated bibliographical research.

Contents

CONTENTS
The 18th century in comedy and tragedy.

The course envisages: 1) a preliminary discourse on the specificity of the dramaturgical text; 2) a more general
section dedicated to the history of Italian dramaturgy
from the 16th to the 17th century; 3) a section of in-depth
study centred on the drama of Goldoni and Alfieri, with
special reference to the relationship between writing
texts and the dynamics of staging. During the course
there will be DVD screenings of several plays.

Extended Syllabus

SUMMARY OF PROGRAMME

For the exam:
C. Goldoni, Trilogia della villeggiatura, edited by F. Fido, Marsilio, 2005;
M. Pieri (ed.), Il teatro di Goldoni, il Mulino, 1993;
G. Folena, L’esperienza linguistica di Carlo Goldoni, in ID., L’italiano in Europa. Esperienze linguistiche del Settecento, il Mulino, 1983, pp. 89-132.
V. Alfieri, Saul (any edition);
F. Angelini, Saul di Vittorio Alfieri, in Letteratura italiana. Le Opere, book two. Dal Cinquecento al Settecento, Einaudi, 1993, pp. 1198-1211.
A. Barsotti, Alfieri e il teatro tragico, in Storia del teatro moderno e contemporaneo edited by R. Alonge and G. Davico Bonino, II, Einaudi, 2000.

recommended texts:
C. Alberti, Goldoni, Salerno Editrice, 2004;
A. Di Benedetto – V. Perdichizzi, Alfieri, Salerno Editrice, 2014
R. Tessari, Teatro e spettacolo nel Settecento, Laterza, 1995.

9 ECTS

For the exam:
C. Goldoni, Il servitore di due padroni, edited by V. Gallo, Marsilio, 2011;
C. Goldoni, Trilogia della villeggiatura, edited by F. Fido, Marsilio, 2005;
M. Pieri (ed.), Il teatro di Goldoni, il Mulino, 1993;
G. Folena, L’esperienza linguistica di Carlo Goldoni, in ID., L’italiano in Europa. Esperienze linguistiche del Settecento, il Mulino, 1983, pp. 89-132.
V. Alfieri, Saul (any edition);
V. Alfieri, Mirra (any edition);
F. Angelini, Saul di Vittorio Alfieri, in Letteratura italiana. Le Opere, book two. Dal Cinquecento al Settecento, Einaudi, 1993, pp. 1198-1211.
A. Barsotti, Alfieri e il teatro tragico, in Storia del teatro moderno e contemporaneo edited by R. Alonge and G. Davico Bonino, II, Einaudi, 2000.

recommended texts:
C. Alberti, Goldoni, Salerno Editrice, 2004;
A. Di Benedetto – V. Perdichizzi, Alfieri, Salerno Editrice, 2014
R. Tessari, Teatro e spettacolo nel Settecento, Laterza, 1995.

Recommended Bibliography

REFERENCE TEXTS

6 ECTS

recommended texts:
C. Alberti, Goldoni, Salerno Editrice, 2004;
A. Di Benedetto – V. Perdichizzi, Alfieri, Salerno Editrice, 2014
R. Tessari, Teatro e spettacolo nel Settecento, Laterza, 1995.

9 ECTS

recommended texts:
C. Alberti, Goldoni, Salerno Editrice, 2004;
A. Di Benedetto – V. Perdichizzi, Alfieri, Salerno Editrice, 2014
R. Tessari, Teatro e spettacolo nel Settecento, Laterza, 1995.

Teaching Methods

Teaching methods:

Classroom lessons, exercises, seminars, lectures, group work

Evaluation methods

Verification of learning:

LEARNING ASSESSMENT METHOD

Oral exam

Contacts/More Information

OTHER INFORMATION

Non-attending students must agree with the teacher upon a supplementary text at least one month before the exam.

Università degli Studi
"G. d'Annunzio"

Chieti - Pescara

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