28060 - Spanish Theatre: Topics and Genres II
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5.3. Syllabus
Syllabus (or programme)
Instrumenta. Spanish theatrical documentation. Major public and private collections: struggling with nationalism and collecting.
Introduction: “extensive” theatrical genres. Poetics by Aristotle and its legacy. New traditions: Isabelline theatre and the new Spanish comedy. Modern drama and its crisis: drama and the novel; poetry and drama. Two theatre models from the 20th century: the Brechtian model and the Artaudian model.
Spanish comedy. Theatrical theory and practice in the 17th century.
Tragedy and neo-classical comedy. Popular genres: from magic comedy to melodrama. Diderot and bourgeois drama. El sí de las niñas.
The “Preface” to Cromwell, by Victor Hugo. The Duke of Rivas: Don Álvaro o la Fuerza del Sino.
From high comedy to realist drama. Naturalism in the Theatre, by Emile Zola. The realist novel and drama. The theatre of Benito Pérez Galdós: Realidad.
Poetry and drama. The poetic drama from modernism to the avant-gardes. The theatre of Federico García Lorca: Bodas de sangre.
Tragedy and drama in the post-war period and in the transition to democracy. The Theatre and Its Double, by A. Artaud. El Sueño de la razón. La taberna fantástica.
Frontier theatre forms: from the transition to post-modernism. The comedy of the transition. José Sanchis Sinisterra and the teatro fronterizo (frontier theatre).
5.4. Course planning and calendar
See the academic calendar of the University of Zaragoza (http://academico.unizar.es/calendario-academico/calendario) and the website of the Faculty of Philosophy and Arts (Schedule of classes: https://fyl.unizar.es/horario-de-clases#overlay-context=horario-de-clases; Examination schedule: https://fyl.unizar.es/calendario-de-examenes#overlay-context=)
More information will be provided on the first day of class.