ECTS - University of Pisa
| Modules | Area | Type | Hours | Teacher(s) | |
| STORIA DEL TEATRO INGLESE | L-LIN/10 | LEZIONI | 36 |
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NB: IL CORSO SI TIENE NEL SECONDO SEMESTRE
PER VISUALIZZARE IL PROGRAMMA CARICARE LA PAGINA IN INGLESE
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 contrubution 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.
Course title:
War and the contemporary stage
Outline description of the course:
The British stage has been quick to register the rise to prominence of war as the major political, ethical and cultural issue of the present day. In this course we will look at a number of theatrical responses to this highly topical subject, with specific – though not exclusive – reference to the post-9/11 scenario. By examining new plays alongside revivals or rewritings of classic works, we will engage with the broad range of aesthetic frames through which the British stage has sought to mediate the complex, elusive and seemingly intractable reality of war.
Core texts:
Samuel Beckett, Endgame, in Samuel Beckett: The Complete Dramatic Works, London, Faber & Faber, 1996.
Caryl Churchill, Far Away (London, Nick Hern, 2000); Drunk Enough to Say I Love You? (London, Nick Hern, 2006); Seven Jewish Children: A Play for Gaza (2009; freely available on line)
Sarah Kane, Blasted (1995), in Complete Plays (London, Methuen, 2001)
Dennis Kelly, After the End (London, Oberon, 2005)
William Shakespeare, Henry V (Oxford or Arden Shakespeare)
Henry V, dir. Laurence Olivier, UK, 1944
Henry V, dir. Kenneth Branagh, UK, 1989
No Man's Land, dir. Danis Tanovic, France/Bosnia and Herzegovina/Italy/Belgium/UK/Slovenia, 2001
Further audiovisual material used during classes will be indicated through the Moodle course page.
Critical references:
R. King and P. Franssen (eds), Shakespeare and War, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
Sara Soncini, Forms of Conflict: Contemporary Wars on the British Stage, Exeter, Exeter UP, 2015.
A further selection of critical material 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.
Students who are unable to attend classes will sit an oral exam. They will also be asked to prepare a critical essay (c. 4000 words) 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%), a summative essay of c. 2500 words (40%), and an oral interview (40%). Attendance and contribution to group discussion will also count towards the final mark.
Il corso avrà inizio giovedì 22 febbraio (12-13.30, aula Curini 2A).
Durante il primo incontro verranno illustrati obiettivi e articolazione del corso insieme ad alcune iniziative culturali che si affiancano alla didattica curricolare. Verranno inoltre affrontate eventuali criticità relative all’orario.
Gli studenti interessati a frequentare ma impossibilitati a presenziare alla prima lezione sono pregati di iscriversi al corso tramite Moodle in modo da essere aggiornati sulle indicazioni che verranno fornite in quell'occasione e di segnalare preventivamente alla docente eventuali problemi legati a sovrapposizioni con altri corsi.
Agli studenti di Storia del Teatro Inglese vierrà offerta la possibilità di partecipare alle sessioni dedicate a "Seven Jewish Children" nell'ambito del corso "On Stage" organizzato dal Teatro Verdi di Pisa (http://www.teatrodipisa.pi.it/formazione/fare-teatro/986-on-stage-dalla-scoperta-di-una-passione-alla-professione).
