ECTS - University of Pisa
| Modules | Area | Type | Hours | Teacher(s) | |
| STORIA DEL TEATRO INGLESE | L-LIN/10 | LEZIONI | 36 |
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Module A will start on Tuesday, 1 October (Palazzo Scala, Media Lab, 2nd floor).
Please sign up on the Moodle course page and read the instructions for preliminary reading in preparation for the first week of class.
Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to:
A range of formative and summative assessment methods are used, including essays, presentations, and a final oral exam.
As a result of engaging fully with this course, students will be able to:
The range of assessment methods used (presentation, essay, oral interview) are used not only for assessment purposes but also as a means of developing students’ abilities to collect, organize, evaluate and deploy relevant information and ideas from a variety of sources in reasoned arguments. Feedback on essays and presentations is designed to feed forward into future work, enabling students to develop their strengths and address any weaker areas.
Students will be asked to actively contribute to seminar sessions. They will be asked to support or challenge critical opinions by way of reasoned argument. They will be required to identify and apply data in an accurate, precise and transparent way, to learn from constructive criticism and incorporate its insights, and to develop a sound approach to problem-solving.
Students will also be expected to work to deadlines and priorities and to collaborate with other students in preparation for and during group sessions.
Students’ ability to formulate critical views and communicate them in a clear, convincing manner will be tested through their contribution to seminar sessions.
The preparation of a written essay will provide further opportunities for students to use their initiative in the collection and presentation of material, to mount a clear, cogent argument, and to draw appropriate conclusions.
Students are expected to have already acquired a good knowledge of English literature and culture.
The course is taught both by lecture and seminar. Lectures provide an overview of the key concepts and frameworks for a topic, equipping students to carry out independent research for the seminars and to develop their own. Seminars provide an opportunity for students to explore the ideas, topics and issues outlined in the lectures.
Seminars may take various formats, including plenary group discussion, small-group work and student-led presentations.
The course is delivered in English but non-specialist students can read core texts in Italian, if they feel more comfortable.
Course title:
The “state-of-the-nation” play from 1956 to the present day.
Outline description of the course:
The course aims to provide an extensive survey of contemporary British theatre and drama from the postwar years to the present day by focusing on the paradigmatic genre of the “state-of-the-nation” play. Module A (6 CFU) will follow the historical development of the genre by looking at some landmarks of 20th-century British drama and their engagement with the construction of national identity along lines of class, gender and ethnicity.
Core texts:
Module A: Defining and redefining the “state-of-the-nation play”
John Osborne, Look Back in Anger (1956)
Shelagh Delaney, A Taste of Honey (1958)
Arnold Wesker, The Kitchen (1959)
Howard Brenton, The Churchill Play (1974)
Caryl Churchill, Light Shining in Buckinghamshire (1976)
Caryl Churchill, Cloud Nine (1979)
Caryl Churchill, Top Girls (1982)
Timberlake Wertenbaker, Our Country’s Good (1988)
Sarah Kane, Blasted (1995)
Martin McDonagh, The Beauty Queen of Leenane (1996)
Critical references
Aleks Sierz, Rewriting the Nation: British Theatre Today, London, Methuen, 2011 [selected chapters].
Nadine Holdsworth, Theatre & Nation, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2010 [selected chapters].
Dan Rebellato, 1956 and All That: The Making of Modern British Drama, London, Routledge, 1999 [selected chapters].
A further selection of critical material (essays, book chapters, reviews) will be made available through the Moodle course page.
NB students will be asked to read the core texts in preparation for seminar sessions.
All texts listed in the course bibliography are available from the LM2 library.
In addition to the course bibliography listed above and the critical material indicated on the Moodle course page, students who are unable to attend classes are required to read David Krasner, A History of Modern Drama, vol II (1960-2000), Chichester, Wiley Blackwell, 2016 [pp. 47-204; 459-499]; free online access to ebook version for Unipi users.
Non-attending students will sit an oral exam. They will also be asked to prepare a critical essay on an agreed topic. The essay must be submitted at least two weeks prior to the date of the oral exam.
Students will be assessed by a formative oral presentation (20%), an argumentative essay (40%), and a final oral discussion (40%). Attendance and contribution to group discussion will also count towards the final mark.
Module A will start on Tuesday, 1 October (Palazzo Scala, Media Lab, 2nd floor).
Please sign up on the Moodle course page and read the instructions for preliminary reading in preparation for the first week of class.
NELLA SESSIONE DI APRILE 2020 GLI ESAMI SI SVOLGERANNO REGOLARMENTE, SEBBENE IN MODALITÀ TELEMATICA, SECONDO LE INDICAZIONI DELL'ATENEO.
GLI STUDENTI CHE RISULTERANNO ISCRITTI NELLE LISTE VERRANNO CONTATTATI DALLA DOCENTE, CHE FORNIRÀ LE INFORMAZIONI NECESSARIE PER LO SVOLGIMENTO DELLA PROVA ORALE CONCLUSIVA.
PER UNA MIGLIORE ORGANIZZAZIONE DELLA PROVA, SI PREGA DI ISCRIVERSI SOLTANTO SE SI È SICURI DI SOSTENERE L'ESAME E, EVENTUALMENTE, DI CANCELLARE L'ISCRIZIONE ENTRO I TERMINI INDICATI SUL PORTALE.
