The Municipal Theatre in Lwów under Tadeusz Pawlikowski's management, 1900-1906 4012-129C
The course considers selected plays presented by the Lwów theatre under Tadeusz Pawlikowski’s management which were an element of the image of modernist culture in Lwów. The course aims to familiarize students with the typical drama forms of the period in question (naturalist plays, symbolic plays in various variations), including the problem of reception - determining the role of a given work and how it functioned in the awareness of the time and in Lwów’s cultural life. As far as source availability allows, the course will also discuss the staging of particular plays and Tadeusz Pawlikowski’s role as a stage director and the municipal theatre’s literary manager. Among other things, we will refer to theatre reviews from the Lwów press of the time.
Topics:
1. Iwan Gorkij: Mieszczanie
2. Henryk Ibsen: Wróg ludu
3. Gerhard Hauptmann: Dzwon zatopiony
4. Gabriela Zapolska: Tamten
5. Artur Schnitzler: cztery jednoaktówki: Gody życia, Kobieta ze sztyletem, Ostatnie maski, Literatura
6. Maurycy Maeterlinck: Wnętrze
7. Leopold Staff: Skarb
8. Jerzy Żuławski: Eros i Psyche
9. Stanisław Przybyszewski: Złote runo
10. Tadeusz Rittner: Maszyna
11. Zygmunt Kawecki: Dramat Kaliny
12. Stanisław Wyspiański: Warszawianka
13. Franciszek Gabriel Domnik (Darowski): Na Łyczakowie
14. Antoni Czechow: Wujaszek Wania
Type of course
Learning outcomes
1. A critical analysis of works proposed as suggested reading.
2. Identifying the structure and listing the characteristic features of a literary work in terms of elements of style and thematic approach.
3. Determining the relation between a given work and literary tradition, estimating how far the work moves beyond/enriches that tradition.
4. Identifying the features of the reception of a given work based on memoir-type sources and press reviews.
5. Preparing and presenting a synthetic proposal of interpretation together with a description of the features of reception (paper).
Assessment criteria
Criteria: active participation in discussions and assessment of the presented paper (thoroughness of analysis of a work, interpretation hypotheses, how original and how well they are justified, making use of available literature, identifying the most important features or characteristic elements of the problem and formal structure of a given play, discussing the staging as compared to the stage directions).
Methods: continuous assessment (being prepared for class) and final oral test (presentation of the paper).
Bibliography
Franciszek Pajączkowski: Teatr lwowski pod dyrekcją Tadeusza Pawlikowskiego 1900-1906, Kraków 1961.
Ludwik Solski: Wspomnienia, Tom II, Kraków 1956.
Gabriela Zapolska: Listy, zebrała Stefania Linowska, Warszawa 1970.
Lesław Eustachiewicz: Dramaturgia Młodej Polski, Warszawa 1986.
Alfred Wysoki: Sprzed pół wieku, Kraków 1958.
Recenzje: Kurier Lwowski, Głos, Gazeta Lwowska, Krytyka.
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