OVERVIEW

History and analysis of Italian drama literature texts from the XVIIth to the 20th century in lectures and textual analysis of major works with active practice from students and possible seminar activities.

AIMS AND CONTENT

LEARNING OUTCOMES

To analyse Italian literature themes and issues in its relations with theatre and performance in terms of both the production of dramaturgic texts as well as texts (news stories, autobiographical writings, letters etc) that can contribute to the knowledge of the history of performance.

AIMS AND LEARNING OUTCOMES

By the end of the course, students will be able to:

- identify and recognise the specificities of the dramatic text throughout its history;

- identify, name and recognise genres, forms, parts (dialogues, monologues, soliloquies, etc.) of the dramatic text

- apply acquired knowledge in original work such as open books, reports, analysis sheets

- understand and map theatre literature through specific research perspectives.

- identify and apply the main junctures in the construction of the theatrical character

PREREQUISITES

To have a thorough knowledge (at three-year literature level) of the history of Italian literature.

To possess the ability to critically analyse, interpret and contextualise literary texts,

Being able to expound, with clarity and ownership of critical language.

TEACHING METHODS

Lectures, annotated readings in class, homework on aulaweb. 

The lecturer does not prevent lecture recordings as long as they are first approved and then shared with the class.

SYLLABUS/CONTENT

Programme for students using the teaching for 6 cfu:

1. Analysis of the dramatic text. The playbook, textual organisation, dramatic language. 10 hours

2. Operascenica. Maps for the Seventeenth-Century Drama Book. 20 hours

With a view to an international conference to be held in June 2025, this course aims to involve students in the study of the 17th century theatre book through the analysis of specific cases and authors. 

3. Writing reality in the theatre. A twentieth-century course of which students taking 6 cfu will choose a text from those proposed.

Programme for students taking 9 cfu

1. Analysis of the dramatic text. The playbook, textual organisation, dramatic language. 10 hours

1. Operascenica. Maps for the Seventeenth-Century Drama Book. 20 hours

With a view to an international conference to be held in June 2025, this course aims to involve students in the study of the 17th century theatre book through the analysis of specific cases and authors. 

3. Writing Reality in the Theatre (30 hours). Theoretical path around realism from Aristotelian verisimilitude to the theatre documenting the impossibility of reality. Course conducted on a selection of texts: Verga, Giacosa, De Filippo, Annibale Ruccello and others. Materials will be provided in class.

RECOMMENDED READING/BIBLIOGRAPHY

Bibliography for all students

1. S. Morando, La letteratura teatrale italiana. Il testo drammatico e la sua storia dal Medieovo al Novecento, Rome, Carocci, 2023. 

2. Theoretical reference texts made available on Aulaweb. Dramatic texts made available on aulaweb or indicated in specific editions during the course. 

Texts (probable choises) for the course, to be defined more precisely during the lessons: the will be available on aulaweb.  

Programme for non-attending students: the teacher will structure a classroomweb as a synopsis of the course, divided by topics and with the texts that will be read. The programme will therefore be no different for non-attending students, who are in any case invited to contact the teacher for any supplementary readings.

TEACHERS AND EXAM BOARD

LESSONS

LESSONS START

2025 February

Class schedule

The timetable for this course is available here: Portale EasyAcademy

EXAMS

EXAM DESCRIPTION

For part 1 and 2: the examination will be based on a written part (open book) to be handed in ten days before the examination;

for part 3) an oral interview on the dramatic texts and theoretical essays covered in class.

An evaluation grid will be agreed between the lecturer and the students.

ASSESSMENT METHODS

The written part 1-2 will assess the achievement of the training objective relating to the acquisition of the specificity of the text and dramatic language and the synthesis with respect to the issue of the seventeenth-century drama book.

The oral will assess knowledge of the texts studied, the ability to comment on them and good exposition in relation to the issues addressed in part 3.