TYM217 Theories and History of Theatre II

4 ECTS - 2-0 Duration (T+A)- 3. Semester- 2 National Credit

Information

Code TYM217
Name Theories and History of Theatre II
Semester 3. Semester
Duration (T+A) 2-0 (T-A) (32 Week)
ECTS 4 ECTS
National Credit 2 National Credit
Teaching Language Türkçe
Level Lisans Dersi
Type Konservatuar - Yardımcı Meslek
Mode of study Yüz Yüze Öğretim
Catalog Information Coordinator Öğr. Gör. İsmail DİKİLİTAŞ


Course Goal

The aim is to convey students the theatre applications in all periods of the World Theatre from its first occurrence to the present day, staging formats and the theories developed as a result of these experiences, and create an awareness with all this information.

Course Content

The development of theatre during the Middle Ages, Renaissance and Classic periods and the examination of the theories which appeared during these periods.

Course Precondition

TYM105 Theories and History of Theatre I

Resources

Lecture Notes and Books

Notes

Şener, Sevda: Dünden Bugüne Tiyatro Düşüncesi. Anadolu Üniversitesi Yay. Eskişehir, 1991.


Course Learning Outcomes

Order Course Learning Outcomes
LO01 Knows the idea of theater in the Roman period.
LO02 Knows the Medieval Theater History and the idea of theater that emerged at that time.
LO03 Knows the Renaissance Theater History and the idea of theater that emerged at that time.
LO04 Klasik Dönem tiyatro düşüncesini bilir.
LO05 Knows and tells about Plautus, Terentius, Cicero's views on theatre.
LO06 Distinguish the theater thought of Horatius from the theater thought of Aristotle.
LO07 Summarizes the theater ideas of Classical Movement and Renaissance period.
LO08 Analyze the connections of the Classical Movement with the theater thought in the Ancient Greek and Roman Periods.


Relation with Program Learning Outcome

Order Type Program Learning Outcomes Level
PLO01 Bilgi - Kuramsal, Olgusal Students comprehensively search for the national and international Theatre - Acting literature, techniques and methods, synthesize the knowledge they acquired considering the requirements of the age and gain a critical point of view.
PLO02 Bilgi - Kuramsal, Olgusal The Art of Acting is supported with methods, theories, history, the techniques of using voice and body, behavioral psychology, and aesthetics and art theories. He has the knowledge to comprehend his art and transfer it to the future along with his past.
PLO03 Bilgi - Kuramsal, Olgusal This program provides with the ways of finding the necessary documents, tools, resources, and the archive related to the art of acting. 4
PLO04 Bilgi - Kuramsal, Olgusal Having sufficient information on stage technology, students comprehend how to express the artistic expression images of the play.
PLO05 Bilgi - Kuramsal, Olgusal Students gain the ability to present information related to the Art of Theatre-Acting to various audiences. 5
PLO06 Bilgi - Kuramsal, Olgusal Students gain awareness of being an artist who is aware of the responsibility to themselves, their own country and to the humanity.
PLO07 Bilgi - Kuramsal, Olgusal Students will have the ability to search, discover, create alternative solutions, reach information, think critically and engage in productive discussions for personal and professional growth. 3
PLO08 Beceriler - Bilişsel, Uygulamalı Taking the art of Theatre-Acting into consideration, students comprehend the improvement and transformation period of the art from past to the future, and adapt it according to the requirements of the age. 5
PLO09 Beceriler - Bilişsel, Uygulamalı Improving coordination skills, students know about and analyze their own body, emotions and thoughts and gain the ability to use their natural mechanism as an instrument on the stage.
PLO10 Beceriler - Bilişsel, Uygulamalı In addition to acting techniques, he knows and applies the right ways of using the body on stage with movement, dance, body plastic and fencing disciplines.
PLO11 Beceriler - Bilişsel, Uygulamalı This programme teaches the ways of using voice correctly on stage supporting this with the voice and speech techniques, singing, solfege and ear training.
PLO12 Beceriler - Bilişsel, Uygulamalı Students gain the ability to evaluate interpret values with the knowledge acquired in their own field of study. 3
PLO13 Beceriler - Bilişsel, Uygulamalı Performs his character taking part in a full range of play (including costumes, makeup, decor, music, lighting, effects,) prepared closest to the professional discipline and stage conditions.
PLO14 Beceriler - Bilişsel, Uygulamalı He gains the awareness of having artistic ethics and professional discipline together with his professional acting qualifications and applies them in rehearsal, representation and all works on stage and set.
PLO15 Yetkinlikler - Bağımsız Çalışabilme ve Sorumluluk Alabilme Yetkinliği As an artist, students improve themselves continually, and combine the knowledge and skills appropriate for the rules of professional ethics with the other fields of art and make correlations between them.
PLO16 Yetkinlikler - Öğrenme Yetkinliği In addition to professional development, students continue to improve themselves in the scientific, social, cultural and athletic fields.
PLO17 Yetkinlikler - İletişim ve Sosyal Yetkinlik Students gain communication and social competence skills as a natural part of the art of theater - acting.
PLO18 Yetkinlikler - Alana Özgü Yetkinlik With the help of techniques and methods of acting, this programme teaches the ways of expressing the emotions and thoughts of the character to play on stage.
PLO19 Yetkinlikler - Alana Özgü Yetkinlik Considering the art of Theatre-Acting, students learn a social and aesthetic point of view and can apply this on performing arts, radio, television and cinema.
PLO20 Yetkinlikler - Alana Özgü Yetkinlik This programme teaches the ways of gaining the ability of using Turkish correctly and efficiently.


Week Plan

Week Topic Preparation Methods
1 Roman Theatre Thoguht: Pilate, Terentius and Cicero´s thoughts on Theatre. Theatre thought of the period. Horatius and the Ars Poetika´s thoughts:, the poet should be well-informed, hardworking and exploit/benefit from Greek Art. Reading the source, Research Öğretim Yöntemleri:
Anlatım, Soru-Cevap, Tartışma
2 Content, Shape and Style Features in Ars Poetics: Meet the tradition in terms of Simplicity, Accuracy in narration, Selection and Arrangement of Words, Running Usage, Subject of the play, Selection Subject. Reading the source, Research Öğretim Yöntemleri:
Anlatım, Soru-Cevap, Tartışma
3 Characters should be appropriate for the role, The importance of Initial-middle-last and the beginning, Five Curtains rule, there should be at least three people that have a speech in one scene, the organic place of choir in the play, the scenes that are unfavorable, Appearance of Gods on stage in compulsory conditions, the impact and function of theatre, the emotional impact of art, the impact of images. Reading the source, Research Öğretim Yöntemleri:
Anlatım, Soru-Cevap, Tartışma
4 Revision of Roman Theatre thought. Reading the source, Research Öğretim Yöntemleri:
Anlatım, Soru-Cevap, Tartışma
5 Midterm Exam Reading the source, Ölçme Yöntemleri:
Yazılı Sınav
6 Medieval Theatre Practice: The periods before the Religious Drama Movements in the Middle Ages, Religious drama - Church Theatre, Staging and Places in Religious Drama, Acting in Middle Ages, staging of the plays out of the Church and the results of this situation, Religious dramas in National Language. Reading the source, Research Öğretim Yöntemleri:
Anlatım, Soru-Cevap, Tartışma
7 Secular Drama in Middle Ages: Medieval farces, morality (plays with moral lessons), interludes (intermediate plays), Knight Entertainments (Tournaments, disguise, Festivals with masks), Royal Processions and street parades, Collapse and the transfiguration of the Middle Ages Drama. Reading the source, Research Öğretim Yöntemleri:
Anlatım, Soru-Cevap, Tartışma
8 Theatre thought in Middle Ages Accusations against theatre, the reasons of the Church´s disapproval of theatre, distinction of genres and definitions, moral informativeness of theatre, explanation of destruction at the end of tragedy as fate. Reading the source, Research Öğretim Yöntemleri:
Anlatım, Soru-Cevap, Tartışma
9 General Review of Medieval Theatre. Reading the source, Research Öğretim Yöntemleri:
Anlatım, Soru-Cevap, Tartışma
10 Midterm Exam Ölçme Yöntemleri:
Yazılı Sınav
11 Renaissance Theatre: Political, Social, Cultural, Scientific atmosphere in Renaissance . Italian Theatre in Renaissance: Developments in Italy in Renaissance, intermezzis, The Birth of Opera. Reading the source, Research Öğretim Yöntemleri:
Anlatım, Soru-Cevap, Tartışma
12 Innovations of staging practises in Italy in Renaissance. Stage practises of: Sebastino Serlio, Nikolai Sebattini and Giacomin Torelli. Developments in architecture of Italian Theatre in Renaissance : Theatre Olimpico, Theatre Farnesse, San Cassiano, the Italian Commedia Del Arte Folk Theatre Tradition. Reading the source, Research Öğretim Yöntemleri:
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13 Elizabethan English Drama in the Renaissance: The first Tragedy and Comedias in transition period, College Intellectuals: Thomas Kyd, Christopher Marlowe, John Lily, Robert Green, W. Shakespeare and his contemporaries, Ben Johnson, George Chapman, Thomas Dekker, John Marston, Thomas Hewood, Thomas Middeleton, Cyril Tourneur. Reading the source,, Research Öğretim Yöntemleri:
Anlatım, Soru-Cevap, Tartışma
14 Jacobin Authors: Francis Beamount, John Fletcher, Phillip Massenger, John Ford, James Shirley, Elizabethan Theatre legislation Stage technique in Elizabethan English theater, staging places (arenas in halls, Palace Theatre, Civic Theatre, private theaters, arenas that the masks are played in.) Reading the source, Research Öğretim Yöntemleri:
Anlatım, Soru-Cevap, Tartışma
15 Period analysis and general revison Reading the source, Research Öğretim Yöntemleri:
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16 Period analysis and general revison. Reading the source, Research Öğretim Yöntemleri:
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17 French Theater and Neo-Classicism in Renaissance: 1595 Pre-French Folk Arena, 16 Century Neo-Classical Drama, public theatre from 1595 to 1625, important authors of Neo-Classicism: Pierre Corneille, Jean Racine and JBP Moliere. Reading the source,, Research Öğretim Yöntemleri:
Anlatım, Soru-Cevap, Tartışma
18 The idea of theater in Renaissance Theatre : Overview of the general situation in the Middle Ages before the Renaissance, and Accusations and prohibitions against theatre. Reading the source, Research Öğretim Yöntemleri:
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19 Advocacy of the theater in Renaissance: Theatre Arts is a serious type, , theater is educational, Tragedy represents Superior and General Facts, Tragedy does not instigate excitements but soothes them through catharsis, problems appeared in practice is the fault of practitioners. Reading the source, Research Öğretim Yöntemleri:
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20 The Idea of theatre in Renaissance:: Theatre is not for reading but for playing, Tragedy and Comedy are different types; each has different features, form rules proposed by Ancient theorists should be implemented, mission of theatre is to provide benefits by educating. Similarity to reality should be important in Tragedy. Reading the source, Research Öğretim Yöntemleri:
Anlatım, Soru-Cevap, Tartışma
21 Midterm Exam Reading the source, Research Ölçme Yöntemleri:
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22 Classic Theatre Idea: Political, social, scientific, economic and religious atmosphere in 17th Century Reading the source, Research Öğretim Yöntemleri:
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23 Rules of Classical Theatre movement: What Ancient Greek theorists have said is true, Tragedy and comedy have different features, plays should arouse interest and they should be effective. Reading the source, Research Öğretim Yöntemleri:
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24 Similarity to reality and credibility are important features, , morality and common sense must be followed, theater must be useful and entertaining, narration should be subtle, images shouldn´t be extremely striking. Reading the source, Research Öğretim Yöntemleri:
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25 Format rules of Classical Theatre movement: Purity, simplicity, a certain length of completeness, Organic Integrity, Credibility Consistency, Rule of Three union. Reading the source, Research Öğretim Yöntemleri:
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26 Five Scenes Rule, there should not be more than three characters in a scene, bloody events shouldn´t be demonstrated on stage. Reading the source, Research Öğretim Yöntemleri:
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27 Comparison of philosophers in Ancient Greek (Aristotle), and Rome (Horatius) with Classical Period, explain the similarities between them and determine the impact of these on classical theatre thought. Reading the source, Research Öğretim Yöntemleri:
Anlatım, Soru-Cevap, Tartışma
28 General Review of Clasiccal Theatre Idea. Reading the source, Research Öğretim Yöntemleri:
Anlatım, Soru-Cevap, Tartışma
29 Midterm Exam Ölçme Yöntemleri:
Yazılı Sınav
30 Assessment of one-year education and students´ performance. Reading the source, Research Öğretim Yöntemleri:
Anlatım, Soru-Cevap, Tartışma
31 Final exam preparation. Reading the source, Research Öğretim Yöntemleri:
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32 Final Exam Reading the source, Research Ölçme Yöntemleri:
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Student Workload - ECTS

Works Number Time (Hour) Workload (Hour)
Course Related Works
Class Time (Exam weeks are excluded) 29 2 58
Out of Class Study (Preliminary Work, Practice) 29 1 29
Assesment Related Works
Homeworks, Projects, Others 0 0 0
Mid-term Exams (Written, Oral, etc.) 2 2 4
Final Exam 1 2 2
Total Workload (Hour) 93
Total Workload / 25 (h) 3,72
ECTS 4 ECTS