The theatrical text and the "reforms" of the comedy.
We will analyze at first the differences between narrative text and dramatic text, especially considering the structuring categories of space and time and analyzing how theatre incorporates space within the writing. The various parts of the theatrical text will be analyzed (syntactic units and conventions of dramatic and spectacular writing), and we will focus particularly on the functions of the choir and its evolution over time. We will then follow the development of the comedy, starting from Renaissance comedy, through the commedia dell'arte, the Goldoni reform and the Pirandello’s one, and the comic forms of dialect theatre, showing also the twentieth-century transformation of comedy into bourgeois drama and the transition from theatre company lead to theatre director.
Texts to study:
-Simona Morando, La Letteratura teatrale italiana, Roma, Carocci, 2023.
-Del Gatto-Breitenmoser-Cappello, L’annodamento degl’intrighi. Studi di sintassi drammatica, Napoli, Liguori, 2007 (il pdf sarà fornito dalla docente).
Readings:
La Mandragola di Machiavelli, due commedie di Goldoni, una commedia di Pirandello, una commedia di Eduardo De Filippo (o altre a scelta dello studente da concordare con la docente)
