DRAMATURGY AND ANCIENT THEATRE

L-FIL-LET/02 - 6 CFU - 2° Semester

Teaching Staff

MONICA CENTANNI

Course Structure

Classroom lessons

In-depth thematic seminars (optional)


Detailed Course Content

The class is divided into two parts:

1st part (general section: module A): literary, archaeological and iconographic sources

1.1 From myth to drama: the origins of tragedy and comedy
1.2 The theater building
1.3 Theatral texts and iconography (V / IV century BC)
1.4 Aristotle's theories on the tragedy
1.5 The tradition of theatrical texts

2nd part – monographic section (module B): Aeschylus' drama
2.1 Aeschylus: the political invention of the Athenian drama
2.2 The Persians: by Aeschylus: a dramaturgical analysis

Textbook Information

A Methodology (4 CFU)

CLASSICAL SOURCES
A.1 Aristoteles, Poetica, with original text and translation; recommended edition: Aristotele, Poetica, edited by D. Lanza, BUR, Milano 1987, pp. 115-223.

BOOKS
A.2 G. Mastromarco, P. Totaro, Storia del teatro greco, Le Monnier Università/Mondadori Education, Milano 2008, pp.1-294.

CHAPTERS
A.3 Giulia Bordignon (ed. by), Scene dal mito, Guaraldi, Rimini, 2015, pp.7-144 (methodological essays); pp. 163-228 (case studies: allegories; Niobe; Laocoön) or, alternatively, pp. 229-312 (case studies: Philoctetes, Medea).

B Dramaturgical analysis of Persians by Aeschylus (2 CFU)

TEXT and COMMENTARY
B.1 Eschilo, Persians, in Eschilo, Le tragedie, edited by Monica Centanni, Mondadori, Milano 2003: pp. 4-11 (Introduction to Persians); pp. 12-93 (text and translation); pp. 707-762 (commentary). Alternatively: Eschilo, Persiani, ed. by M. Centanni, 2° ed., Feltrinelli Milano 2003, pp. 1-150.

CHAPTERS
B.2 M. Centanni, Rappresentare Atene, in Eschilo. Le tragedie, Mondadori, Milano 2003, pp. I-LXXXII.
B.3 M. Centanni, La drammaturgia di Eschilo, in Eschilo, Le tragedie, Mondadori, Milano 2003, pp. 1137-1172.



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