Title Details: | |
History and Dramaturgy of European Theatre |
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Other Titles: |
From the Renaissance to the 18th century |
Authors: |
Tampaki, Anna Spyridopoulou, Maria Altouva, Alexia |
Reviewer: |
Lalagianni, Vasiliki |
Subject: | HUMANITIES AND ARTS > ARTS AND LETTERS > PERFORMING ARTS > THEATRE AND PERFORMING ARTS > THEATRE HUMANITIES AND ARTS > ARTS AND LETTERS > PHILOLOGY > LITERARY FORMS AND GENRES > PROSE > SCRIPTS > PLAY SCRIPTS |
Keywords: |
History Of Theatre
European Theatre Plays Dramaturgy Dramaturgy analysis |
Description: | |
Abstract: |
The book focuses on the history of theatre from the Renaissance to the end of the eighteenth century and contains analyses of representative plays by leading European playwrights of that period (Lope de Vega, Calderón de la Barca, Shakespeare, Corneille, Racine, Molière, Goldoni, Marivaux, Beaumarchais, Goethe, Alfieri). The book emphasizes the socio-historical and ideological milieu in which theatrical genres (tragedy, comedy) developed as well as all aspects of a theatrical performance (set design, scenography, acting). It examines the general characteristics and stylistic peculiarities of key plays that marked the passage from the Renaissance to the Spanish Baroque and to French classicism, as well as Enlightenment drama, the bourgeois drama of the eighteenth century and the Sturm und Drag. Each chapter is accompanied by: a) extracts from plays which are analysed in terms of the plot, the main idea and the characterization of the dramatis personae and b) extracts from theoretical texts (e.g. prologues, studies, essays) followed by a short commentary and by exercises aiming to help the reader delve deeper into the topics discussed. Each chapter concludes with a series of multiple-choice questions aiming to facilitate the assimilation of the points raised.
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Linguistic Editors: |
Ntafos, Vaios |
Type: |
Undergraduate textbook |
Creation Date: | 2015 |
Item Details: | |
ISBN |
978-960-603-383-4 |
License: |
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/gr |
DOI | http://dx.doi.org/10.57713/kallipos-737 |
Handle | http://hdl.handle.net/11419/2928 |
Bibliographic Reference: | Tampaki, A., Spyridopoulou, M., & Altouva, A. (2015). History and Dramaturgy of European Theatre [Undergraduate textbook]. Kallipos, Open Academic Editions. https://dx.doi.org/10.57713/kallipos-737 |
Language: |
Greek |
Consists of: |
1. Renaissance drama: The Commedia Erudita 2. English Renaissance Theatre - Elizabethan theatre 3. Popular drama in Italy: The Commedia dell’ Arte 4. The Spanish Golden Age 5. French classicism and tragedy 6. Molière and comedy 7. The reform of Italian comedy and Goldoni 8. French Enlightenment drama - I Tragedy and the emergence of bourgeois drama' in the 18th century: Voltaire and Diderot 9. French Enlightenment drama - II Comedy from Marivaux to Beaumarchais 10. Sturm und Drang: Lessing, Schiller, Goethe |
Number of pages |
402 |
Publication Origin: |
Kallipos, Open Academic Editions |
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