دانلود کتاب Set the Stage!: Teaching Italian through Theater

فهرست مطالب :

Contributors\nContents\nAcknowledgments\nIntroduction\nPrologue: Theater Performance with American Students\nI. Theater in Italian Literature and Culture\nCHAPTER 1. Authors, Texts, and Innovat ive Movements: An Overview of the Italian Theatrical Canon\nCHAPTER 2. Acting Italian: From the Piazza to the Stage\nII. Theater Courses in the Italian Language Curriculum\nCHAPTER 3. The Theatrical Workshop in the Italian Curriculum\nCHAPTER 4. Creative Connections: The Theater Practicum and the Integration of Language and Literature Study\nCHAPTER 5 Theater Texts and Techniques in the High School Classroom\nIII. Genres, Themes, and Techniques of Italian Theater\nCHAPTER 6. Epic Theater, Comic Mode: Understanding Italian Society through the Works of Dario Fo and Franca Rame\nCHAPTER 7. Commedia dell’Arte’s Techniques: Theater Research and Italian Language Interplay\nCHAPTER 8. Opera as Theme, Opera as Theater: A Content-Based Approach to the Teaching of Italian Language and Culture\nIV. Methods and Assessment in Italian Theater Workshops\nCHAPTER 9. Full -Scale Play Production: Filling the “Empty Space” between Language and Literature with Fo and Pirandello\nCHAPTER 10. Community, Culture, and Body Language: Staging the Female Voice in the Italian Drama Workshop\nCHAPTER 11. Proficiency and Performance: Assessing Learner Progress in the Italian Theater Workshop\nV. Director’s Handbook\nText Selection: A Few Criteria\nFinancial Resources, Publicity, and Community\nThe Italian Drama Workshop in Three Acts\nTraining the Body, Coaching the Mind: Preliminary Acting Exercises\nMonologue/Monodrama Projects\nEnglish Translations and Surtitles for the Public Performance: Rationale and Practicalities\n“It’s Showtime!” A Concise Guide to Italian Theater Production for New Directors\nAppendix A: Sample Course Syllabus\nAppendix B: Documents to Distribute at Auditions\nAppendix C: Sample French Scene Breakdown\nAfterword: An Interview with Dario Fo and Franca Rame. Thoughts on Theater, Engagement, and the Comic. Examples for a New Pedagogy\nIndex