Latin Theater
0
2017-2018
01013098
Área Científica do Menor
Portuguese
Face-to-face
SEMESTRIAL
6.0
Elective
1st Cycle Studies
Recommended Prerequisites
NA
Teaching Methods
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.
Learning Outcomes
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.
Work Placement(s)
NoSyllabus
Critical lecture of fragments of comedies (Livius Andronicus, Naevius and Ennius) and four comedies of Plautus and Terence; fragments of the tragedies of archaic authors Énio, Pacúvio and Actium and the tragedies of Seneca. Commented lecture of works by various authors and from different moments and literary tastes.
Head Lecturer(s)
Nair de Nazaré Castro Soares
Assessment Methods
Continuous evaluation
Mini Tests: 25.0%
Frequency: 75.0%
Final evaluation
Exam: 100.0%
Bibliography
Poeti latini arcaici, ed. A. Traglia, Torino, UTET, I, 1986
HERRMANN, L., Sénèque, Tragédies,I, Paris, Les Belles Lettres, 1925 (reimp. 1985)
ARNALDI, F., Da Plauto a Terenzio. I. Plauto, Napoli, 1946
ARNOTT, W G., Menander, Plautus, and Terence, Oxford, 1975
BEACHAM, C., The Roman theater and its audience, London, 1991
BIEBER, M., The history of the Greek and Roman theater, Princeton, 3ed. 1961
CUPAIUOLO, G., Terenzio: Teatro e società, Napoli, 1991
DUCKWORTH, G. E., The nature of Roman comedy. A study in popular entertainment , Princeton — New Jersey, 1952
GRIMAL, P., Le théâtre antique, Paris, 1978 (trad. port.: O teatro antigo, Lisboa, 1986)
- Plaute/Térence, Oeuvres complètes, Paris, Gallimard, 1971
KONSTAN, D. Roman comedy, London,1983
HUNTER, R. L. The new comedy of Greece and Rome, Cambridge, 1985
JOCELYN, H. D., The tragedies of Ennius. Cambridge, 1967
WILES, D., The masks of Menander. Sign and meaning in Greek and Roman performance, Cambridge, 1991