Greek Theater

Year
0

Academic year
2019-2020

Code
01013087

Subject Area
Área Científica do Menor

Language of Instruction
Portuguese

Mode of Delivery
Face-to-face

Duration
SEMESTRIAL

ECTS Credits
6.0

Type
Elective

Level
1st Cycle Studies

Recommended Prerequisites

It is necessary to stimulate lecture and to give orientation on the main bibliography to be read.

To promote, in class, the discussion, from general to particular, of the big questions put by the texts.

To confront opinions and debates between the students.

To make syntheses that help each one to organize his interpretation and to distinguish the essencial from the secondary topics.

At the end of the semester the student must:

a) to be a good reader

b)to have an information that may give him conditions to make a competent lecture of the texts

c)to know the elementary biblography on subjects

d)to have his own opinions and to be bale to expose them coherently.

Critical lecture of three tragedies and three comedies, by different authors and from different moments and literary tastes.

Maria de Fátima de Sousa e Silva

Assessment
Synthesis work: 25.0%
Other: 25.0%
Frequency: 50.0%

Fialho, M. C. (1988), Luz e trevas no teatro de Sófocles. Coimbra: INIC

Goward, B. (1999), Telling tragedy. Narrative technique in Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides. London: Duckworth

Kitto, H. D. F. (reimpr. 1959), Form and meaning in drama. London: Methuen

Knox, B. M. H. (reimpr. 1983), The heroic temper. Studies in Sophoclean tragedy. Berkeley: University of California Press

MacDowell, D. (1995), Aristophanes and Athens. Oxford: University Press

Oliveira, F., Silva, M. F. (1991), O teatro de Aristófanes. Coimbra: FLUC

Pulquério, M. O. (2 ed. 1987), Problemática da tragédia sofocliana. Coimbra: IAC

Romilly, J. de (1961), L’évolution du pathétique d’Eschyle à Euripide. Paris: PUF

Segal, E. (1996), Aristophanes. Oxford: University Press

Silva, M. F. (2005), Ensaios sobre Eurípides. Lisboa: Cotovia

Silva, M. F. (2005), Ésquilo, o primeiro dramaturgo europeu. Coimbra: IUC

Walton, M. J., Arnott, P. D. (1996), Menander and the Making of Comedy. Westport: Praeger