Latin Theater

Year
0
Academic year
2019-2020
Code
01013098
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

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)

No

Syllabus

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)

Paulo Sérgio Margarido Ferreira

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