- Docente: Keir Douglas Elam
- Crediti formativi: 6
- SSD: L-LIN/10
- Lingua di insegnamento: Inglese
- Modalità didattica: Convenzionale - Lezioni in presenza
- Campus: Bologna
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Corso:
Laurea Magistrale in
Discipline della musica e del teatro (cod. 8837)
Valido anche per Laurea Magistrale in Italianistica, culture letterarie europee, scienze linguistiche (cod. 0973)
Laurea Magistrale in Letterature moderne, comparate e postcoloniali (cod. 0981)
Laurea Magistrale in Lingua e cultura italiane per stranieri (cod. 0983)
Laurea Magistrale in Italianistica, culture letterarie europee, scienze linguistiche (cod. 0973)
Conoscenze e abilità da conseguire
Al termine del corso lo studente acquisisce conoscenze sulla storia del teatro inglese con particolare riferimento al periodo elisabettiano. Sviluppa inoltre competenze nella analisi storica del teatro inglese ai fini della lettura critica degli eventi e della loro divulgazione.
Contenuti
Shakespeare and early modern visual culture
This course intends to explore the relationship between Shakespeare's plays and early modern visual culture, with particular reference to Elizabethan and Jacobean England. The visual image was still a controversial entity in Shakespeare's day, subject to iconoclastic attacks by Protestant reformers. At the same time, such artists as Nicholas Hilliard achieved considerable recognition, especially at court. Shakespeare's drama reflects this ambivalence. The plays discussed in the course are primarily those in which the visual arts are not merely discussed or alluded to in the dialogue but are actually present in some form on stage. Discussion will centre on the role of pictures in Shakespeare's drama, conceived for a theatre which, compared to Italian and French theatre of the same period, was relatively lacking in iconographic elements. Attention will also be played to the wide variety of 'high' and 'low' art alluded to in the plays, including such forms as the portrait, the impresa, tapestry, heraldry, emblems, prints and popular street art (inn signs, etc.). In many of the scenes alluding to the visual arts there is an implicit paragone, or comparison between art, poetry and theatre. This sometimes becomes explicit, as in Timon of Athens. Another central aspect of the course is Shakespeare's use - sometimes parodic or self-contradictory - of ekphrasis, the description of pictures or images, or more widely a graphic description that evokes a visual image. Reference will also be made to Shakespeare's knowledge (and possible practice) of the visual arts, as well as that of his audience.
Timetable
tuesday 15:00 - 17:00 AULA TIBILETTI (Via Zamboni, 34)
wednesday 15:00 - 17:00 AULA II (Via Zamboni, 34)
thursday 15:00 - 17:00 AULA II (Via Zamboni, 34)
Testi/Bibliografia
Primary texts:
William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, ed. Keir Elam. London: The Arden Shakespeare.
Hamlet
The Merchant of Venice
Secondary texts:
Marguerite A. Tassi,The Scandal of Images: Iconoclasm, Eroticism, and Painting in Early Modern English Drama. Susquehanna Univ Press.
Alison Thorne, Vision and Rhetoric in Shakespeare: Looking through language. Macmillan
Other material will be made available on line.
Metodi didattici
The course will comprise the reading and discussion of the plays and of critical, biographical and cultural texts, as well as the showing of images, videos and other multimedial material.
Modalità di verifica e valutazione dell'apprendimento
The exam will be oral. Students will be asked to write an essay to be discussed during the exam.
Orario di ricevimento
Consulta il sito web di Keir Douglas Elam