Università Roma Tre

"Between Revolt and Metamorphosis: Rebellious Nature in Spanish Dramaturgy from the Seventeenth Century to the Present"
The course aims to explore, through a diachronic itinerary, some figures and metaphors of the ‘rebellious nature’ in Spanish dramaturgy, understood as a force of rupture, criticism or redemption with respect to the established order. The texts tackled stage dreams of freedom, gestures of revolt and interior or social transformations that question the moral, political and symbolic coordinates of their time.
At the beginning of the course, a theoretical-methodological framework for analysing the dramaturgical text will be provided, with particular attention to the relationship between the written text and the performative dimension. The course, which will be taught in Spanish, will then be divided into three didactic units, organised according to a criterion of chronological and thematic progression, also accompanied by a historical-cultural framework of the works examined. The first unit will analyse two fundamental works of Spanish Baroque theatre, in which the themes of redemption and deception are related to the possibility of subverting the political, social and ontological order. The second module focuses on the 19th century rewriting of the Don Juan myth, in its romantic and Catholic version, in which rebellion takes on redemptive connotations. The third and final section will be devoted to 20th and 21st century authors, who stage new forms of rebellion and transformation in contexts of social and political crisis.

TESTI (follow the specific edition indicated for the preparation of the examination):

- Lope de Vega, Fuente Ovejuna, ed. J. M. Marín, Madrid, Cátedra.
- Andrés de Claramonte, El burlador de Sevilla, ed. A. Rodríguez López-Vázquez, Madrid, Cátedra, 2022.
- José Zorrilla, Don Juan Tenorio, ed. A. Peña, Madrid, Cátedra, 2006.
- Federico García Lorca, Yerma, ed. Idelfonso Manuel Gil, Madrid, Cátedra, 2006.
- Juan Mayorga, La tortuga de Darwin, ed. E. Peral Vega, Madrid, Cátedra, 2015.