Our study focused on analyzing the structure of Doong-doong Nak-rang-doong(Choe, In-hoon, 1978) in order to discuss its ''system of ideas''. This play is transformed from the renowned story of ''Ho-dong tale''. We concentrate on its external features ...
Our study focused on analyzing the structure of Doong-doong Nak-rang-doong(Choe, In-hoon, 1978) in order to discuss its ''system of ideas''. This play is transformed from the renowned story of ''Ho-dong tale''. We concentrate on its external features rather than its motif. In the process, we analyze characters, text, and space structure of this work by the method of semiotics of drama./ Most of previous studies were interested in the genre of traditional culture, 'Joomong myth and Goot' and Frazerian theory(Cambridge school) to discuss this work. As the result, they have interpreted the Doong-doong Nak-rang-doong as a kind of archetypal drama or ritual play./ This opinion has been, however, seriously criticized to be abolished because of their unscientific and non-historical factors. So we should reinterpret this drama, Doong-doong Nak-rang-doong by analyzing the structure. / We can find a tragic structure rather than a ritual one observing 'the principles of Choe, In-hoon''s dramatic writing' in the drama. His principles can be expressed as ①transforming classical tales to drama, ②creating characters to act according to his or her own will, ③reconstructing every kind of tales, even the happy ending stories, into the forms of a tragedy. Therefore, the tragic features of the work originate from its tragic structure rather than the story itself./ The tragic structure of Doong-doong Nak-rang-doong symbolically present the ritualistic aspects as the stage effects, like ''shift of being'' and ''nan-jang-pan''(a chaotic scene). From the structural analysis, we can find that its text contain some characteristics like ''tragic irony'', ''tragic moment'', ''paradoxical composition'', and ''deux ex machina''./ These kinds of settings serve this drama to develop to the tragic situation. For the space structure, it takes objects, visual and acoustic elements. We can especially discover a set of ''play-within-the-play''. Role-playing space of ''Hodong and Queen'' and ''