This study is an attempt to understand Korean drama between 1960s and 1970s, which show a tendency toward anti-realism and self-completion of dramatext. This thesis presents various forms and spectrums of anti-realistic drama, and typical characterist...
This study is an attempt to understand Korean drama between 1960s and 1970s, which show a tendency toward anti-realism and self-completion of dramatext. This thesis presents various forms and spectrums of anti-realistic drama, and typical characteristics of drama heading for literariness and theatrical effects.
There are three important types for this study to analyze. They are the condensed dramaturgy for ontological ego, the expanding dramaturgy for the social ago, the dramatic diversification for ontological and social ego. They are divided according to the main characters on the stage, environment around them , and elasticity of dramaturgy. If we say that realistic drama shows the act of individual in society completely though orthodox methods of dramatic framework, these three types are heading toward anti-realism by denying the special part of the required conditions.
The plays, classified to the condensed dramaturgy for ontological ego, bring the self of the drama on the fore excessively by mean of weakening or getting rid of the conflicts between self and society in the realistic drama, In these plays , there are almost two heros entering the stage who are not living character but have a basic confrontation from inner self in common. Also, the stage has no realistic society to imitate or revive, and the event, reduced briefly, come to a conclusion after reaching the climax innerly from the origin.
The plays, belonging to the expanding dramaturgy for the social ego, bring the characters to the similar situation as we see in the realistic drama. But these plays get out of surely the bondage of realistic drama through cutting the stream of drama for the purpose of blocking an illusionism and presenting an inserted setting or epic narraters. It is natural that this sort of drama demand the frequent division of scene and an enlargement of stage-space as well as it refuses the principle of dramatic unification that realistic darama has inherited from classical drama.
However, there is another kind of plays we cant explain by above two sorts of plays, it is called the dramatic diversification for ontological and social ego. This sort of plays gets out of the limitation of realistic drama through more delicate and diverse methods than above two cases. First, there are some plays having the same process as the realistics drama in appearance but noticing the potential ego and reaching the motif that can not explain the insanity and the split consciousness of the moderns in a rational process of logic. Next, some plays show both the criticism about current political circumstances and the idea of universal through the forms of a dull allegoric drama. Futhermore, there are another plays which promote intentional dualism in the theme and style of drama by putting two different fiction, that are social interest and general history of life, side by side. Finally, theres Choi In Hoons poetical drama who hold a unique position in the history of Korean modern drama. In his plays, such heterogeneous themes as the inside of ago depicted by one in the fable style, fuse into one unnoticealbly by means of various kinds of theatrical technics. In the dramatic diversification for ontological and social ego, these plays have a common feature as having a interest in inner and outer peculiarity of character on the stage, and thus rpresenting both sides of theme and an unexpected result of dramaturgy.
Anti-realistic drama between 1960s and 1970s overcomes the expressional limitation in realistic drama and provides for a lot of effects when it is staged. At the same time, these plays present the freedom in technics and the enlargement of themes. On the other hand, these plays succeed to anti-realistic experimental drama in 1950s and build up the foundation of anyi-realistics tendency which is more popularized since 1980s.