1930's in the history of play was the period when there was active activities in the dramatic world. The style of play at that times was divided to four types. Those are following, the commercial theatre, the tendency theatre, the new theatre, the stu...
1930's in the history of play was the period when there was active activities in the dramatic world. The style of play at that times was divided to four types. Those are following, the commercial theatre, the tendency theatre, the new theatre, the student theatre.
The work of Ham se duk who started activities in the latter part of 1930's has characteristics of both emotion in commercial play and reality in New play. Thus his work is hard to be classified into one among above four styles.
His drama has been called "emotional realism" because it had two characteristics, emotion and reality. But already established researches on his work have brought different results in emotional aspect. The point is focused on whether his work is spoken in plain language or not.
This study about emotion aspect of Ham se duk's work is counted as an ambiguous emotion which can be different with non-technical play that has been evaluated as sentimental and romantic emotion until now. So, this research has put priority on establishment of identity in emotion of Ham se duk's work by recognizing the problems on the existing research. Furthermore by investing probability of the drama in detail,wanted to make a clearness an whether his work has a non-technicalway side light on his playwriting or not.
Through this study, it is certain that he was a dramatist who had the attitude of being with the people and thinking of the people constantly in hard times. Ham se duk's work had the feeling of "Hatred" and affection of the public's life, especially basing on flexibility and probability irl playwriting. So this might have help,ed him to earn popularity from the people. This should be evaluated differently from the dramas which were based on temporary emotions with stimulating materials.
The importance of the popular theatre should be not Just attracting people's mind by focusing on people's taste but evoking sympathy with common emotions and the truth. When a play was unusual to people, it cannot but to conclude the services that ham -acting -play(non-technicalplay) had introduced the meaning and the purpose of the play to the people by attracting people into theatre with stimulating materials. But it is hard to have a real value of the popular theatre these days anymore.
Ham se duk is a dramatist who has focused his works on the people not on the trend of that times. Also his drama has showed us that hehad tried to maintain different emotion of his drama from that of ham-acting-play. On these reasons, Ham se duk can be said as a dramatist who have showed us compromised playwriting of the popular theatre which has the valuable meaning. We can also say that his work could be a good model for the real popular theatre.