Theatre History and Theory I

Mode of Delivery

Face to Face

Prerequisites and Co-Requisites

None

Recommended Optional Programme Components

Not Required

Course Contents

Commedia dell'Arte. Spanish theater; Cervantes, Vega, Barca. Action Drama in England, Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Theatre in Germany and France. XVII. XVIII. Century Europe and the social, intellectual, cultural, theater, media effects and the change in the development of the theater, staging techniques, acting and understanding of architecture, examine the scene. Classicism and the French theater, Corneille, Racine and Moliere.

Weekly Schedule

1) General theatre history and all theatre periods
2) Theatre theories about origin of theatre and rituals.
3) Mimesis, action and community participation; magic, mask and dance in theatre origin.
4) Festivals and appearing of theatre in Ancient Greek society in BC V. century.
5) Tragedy and "tragic"; Aischylos and his plays.
6) Sophocles and Euripides; their plays
7) Aristoteles and Platon; their thinking and comparison.
8) Midterm examination/Assessment
9) Comedy in Ancient Greek and Aristophanes' comedies.
10) Aristophanes' and Menander's comedies and comparison.
11) Acting, stage techniques and theatre buildings in Ancient Greek.
12) Reviewing Ancient Greek theatre and inroduction Ancient Rome social, politic, cultural and intellectual conditions.
13) Tragedy poets in Antic Rome and Seneca.
14) Comedy in Ancient Rome and Plautus' comedies.
15) Comedy in Ancient Rome; Terentius' comedies and the comparison of Plautus' and Terentius' plays.
16) Final examination

Recommended or Required Reading

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

1) Lecture
2) Discussion
3) Self Study

Assessment Methods and Criteria

Contribution of Midterm Examination to Course Grade	40%
Contribution of Final Examination to Course Grade	60%
Total	100%

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Work Placement(s)

Not Required