ID:
508083
Duration (hours):
36
CFU:
6
SSD:
DISCIPLINE DELLO SPETTACOLO
Year:
2025
Overview
Date/time interval
Primo Semestre (22/09/2025 - 19/12/2025)
Syllabus
Course Objectives
The course aims to provide the student with critical and interpretative tools for the knowledge and study of theater and performing arts from Middle Ages to Renaissance, not only from a theoretical and methodological point of view, but also through historical analysis of the main expressive forms and artistic languages that have been gradually established. At the end of the course the student must therefore demonstrate:
1) To know the complex structure of a Theatrical Performance (text, drama, scenic writing, acting...)
2) To know how to contextualize the Performing Arts languages in the various historical and cultural periods, from MiddleAge to Renaissance
3) To be able to analyze the various forms of Theatrical Performance and its aesthetic, anthropological and social repercussions
1) To know the complex structure of a Theatrical Performance (text, drama, scenic writing, acting...)
2) To know how to contextualize the Performing Arts languages in the various historical and cultural periods, from MiddleAge to Renaissance
3) To be able to analyze the various forms of Theatrical Performance and its aesthetic, anthropological and social repercussions
Course Prerequisites
Since this course is the first specifically focused to the history of theater and performing arts, no particular requirements are required. However, given the highly interdisciplinary nature of matter (whose expressive codes range from literature to visual arts to rite, anthropology) it is appropriate to have basic skills linked at least to the History of Middle Age and Renaissance, History of Literature and Art.
Teaching Methods
The course is based on the following teaching methods:
1) Lectures
2) Slides, especially concerning visual and iconographic sources
3) Case Studies: view and comment of videos of theatrical plays and performances
4) Sharing of all teaching materials on the web-based platform Kiro
1) Lectures
2) Slides, especially concerning visual and iconographic sources
3) Case Studies: view and comment of videos of theatrical plays and performances
4) Sharing of all teaching materials on the web-based platform Kiro
Assessment Methods
The oral exam aims to verify the knowledge and the skills acquired by the students. In this perspective the oral exam will be focused at least on three topics analyzed in these didactic fields:
1) Lectures
2) Reference texts
1) Lectures
2) Reference texts
Texts
The course requires the knowledge by the student of the following reference texts, closely related to the contents of classroom lessons: 1. ALONGE, Roberto, PERRELLI, Franco, Storia del teatro e dello spettacolo, Utet, Torino 2015, da p. 33 a p. 109. 2. PIETRINI Sandra, I giullari nell'immaginario medievale, Bulzoni, Roma 2011, pp. 37-138 e pp. 201-232. 3. FERRONE, Siro, La Commedia dell'Arte, Einaudi, Torino 2014 (or: TESSARI Roberto, La Commedia dell'Arte, Laterza, Roma Bari 2013) The oral exam aims to verify the knowledge and the skills acquired by the students. In this perspective the oral exam will be focused at least on three topics analyzed in these didactic fields: 1) Lectures 2) Reference texts
Contents
The contents of the course are so structured: 1. The notion of theatre and performance (the difference between theatre, drama, show and performance; the relationships between theatre, play and ritual; the role of the space, the body and the action) 2. The sources for the history of theatre and performance (theatre between presence and absence; direct and indirect sources; the long period of performance) 3. Theatre and performance in Middle Ages (models and forms of middle ages performance; the space of medieval theatre; the performance between ritual and performance, sacred and profane; the jesters) 4. The theatre in Renaissance (the humanistic rediscover of theatres; Comedy and Tragedy; the new of ‘pastorale’; comedy, feast and power) 5. The Commedia dell’Arte (birth of theatrical professionalism; the improvisation and the compositional method of the Commedia dell’Arte; the journey of the actors of Commedia dell’Arte)
Course Language
Italian
More information
No attending students have to study one of these books Stefano Mazzoni, L'Olimpico di Vicenza: un teatro e la sua perpetua memoria, Le Lettere Firenze 1998. Fabrizio Fiaschini, L'"incessabil agitazione". Giovan Battista Andreini fra professione teatrale, cultura letteraria e religione, Serra Editore, Pisa 2007.
Degrees
Degrees
HUMANITIES
Bachelor’s Degree
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