Universität Wien

170301 VO Lecture on the History of Theatre (2016S)

Theater und Fest

The class will offer summaries in English to accomodate non-German speakers.

Details

Language: German

Examination dates

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

  • Wednesday 09.03. 11:30 - 13:00 Hörsaal 3 2A211 2.OG UZA II Geo-Zentrum
  • Wednesday 16.03. 11:30 - 13:00 Hörsaal 3 2A211 2.OG UZA II Geo-Zentrum
  • Wednesday 06.04. 11:30 - 13:00 Hörsaal 3 2A211 2.OG UZA II Geo-Zentrum
  • Wednesday 13.04. 11:30 - 13:00 Hörsaal 3 2A211 2.OG UZA II Geo-Zentrum
  • Wednesday 20.04. 11:30 - 13:00 Hörsaal 3 2A211 2.OG UZA II Geo-Zentrum
  • Wednesday 27.04. 11:30 - 13:00 Hörsaal 3 2A211 2.OG UZA II Geo-Zentrum
  • Wednesday 04.05. 11:30 - 13:00 Hörsaal 3 2A211 2.OG UZA II Geo-Zentrum
  • Wednesday 11.05. 11:30 - 13:00 Hörsaal 3 2A211 2.OG UZA II Geo-Zentrum
  • Wednesday 18.05. 11:30 - 13:00 Hörsaal 3 2A211 2.OG UZA II Geo-Zentrum
  • Wednesday 25.05. 11:30 - 13:00 Hörsaal 3 2A211 2.OG UZA II Geo-Zentrum
  • Wednesday 01.06. 11:30 - 13:00 Hörsaal 3 2A211 2.OG UZA II Geo-Zentrum
  • Wednesday 08.06. 11:30 - 13:00 Hörsaal 3 2A211 2.OG UZA II Geo-Zentrum
  • Wednesday 15.06. 11:30 - 13:00 Hörsaal 3 2A211 2.OG UZA II Geo-Zentrum
  • Wednesday 22.06. 11:30 - 13:00 Hörsaal 3 2A211 2.OG UZA II Geo-Zentrum

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

...To which the devil, stopping the cart, answered quietly, "Senor, we are players of Angulo el Malo's company; we have been acting the play of 'The Cortes of Death' this morning, which is the octave of Corpus Christi, in a village behind that hill, and we have to act it this afternoon in that village which you can see from this; and as it is so near, and to save the trouble of undressing and dressing again, we go in the costumes in which we perform. That lad there appears as Death, that other as an angel, that woman, the manager's wife, plays the queen, this one the soldier, that the emperor, and I the devil; and I am one of the principal characters of the play, for in this company I take the leading parts. If you want to know anything more about us, ask me and I will answer with the utmost exactitude, for as I am a devil I am up to everything."

The connext between theatre and the feast is manyfold and encompasses constellations of Healing/Judging/Narrating within the old feast, medieval and Early Modern celebratory cultures linked to the court and the cleric space as well as present-day theatre cultures.
Taking the well-preserved and well-documented Iberian feast cultures as a starting point (and also extending to Italian, German-speaking and French spaces), this class addresses the relation between theatre and the feast, positions of adjacent anthropological research, the differentiation of feast and festival, cultures of representation and the performance of communities as well as the genesis of theatre structures in a dynamic exchange between practices included and excluded.

Assessment and permitted materials

written exam

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

attendance, passing the concluding final exam.

Grading criteria encompass the reached level of understanding, factual knowledge und independent contextualization of contents.

Examination topics

contents of lectures given, required reading (syllabus), continued contextualization

Reading list

A summary of relevant and required literature and readings will be available through Moodle.

Association in the course directory

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