Oh tae seok has presented dramas with a theme of history after his first drama, Tae. Therefore, this article will consider the techniques of his historical dramas by analyzing those dramas claiming the historical facts. Considering what he wanted to ...
Oh tae seok has presented dramas with a theme of history after his first drama, Tae. Therefore, this article will consider the techniques of his historical dramas by analyzing those dramas claiming the historical facts. Considering what he wanted to interact with audience, what was his historical senses, what was his message to the society and what was his particular dramatic technique as well as studying the historical dramas, I tried to grasp the world of Oh tar seok's drama and his theatricality.
Since a historical drama deals with subject matters of history, Humanity-social research method was quoted with a literary approaching of the dramas to study how to use historical facts in playwriting. This article approaches the study of theatricality through dramatical characters Oh tae seok' historical dramas and analysis of his playwriting techniques. This discussion ,therefore, will handle the methods to use historical materials, characteristics of the dramas and the theatricality, analizing target drama directly rather than clinging to the subject matters of studies.
Tae reflects the historical fact, 'a Sayuksin case', which is about usurping the throne of Sejo and restoring Danjong to the throne caused by 'Kyeyujungran.' It develops the event using the political discord between Sejo's part and Danjong's part. However, on the other sense, the death of 'Sayuksin' was reconstructed by the author's imagination, which induced the tension and interest of the drama. It could be a product of his imagination to devise a storyline of Pack Panenyun family's surviving from extermination of a whole family with changeling in the context of the death of 'Sayuksin.' Tae includes a leap develop in an interval between each scenes and a development process because of a logical leap in the event and double layers in progress of the event. Tae has the characteristic of the spread drama because it has lots of logical holes and shows the theatricality of space.
Imagination of the author in Moonlit night of Baekma river stands out because it is based on the collapse of Baekje and grafted "Eunsanbyulsingut" onto it. It forms a point of contact which the past meets the present with rearranging grotesque happenings in accordance with the traditional rituals in the village festival for the moment of the collapse of Baekje. It shows the playwriting techniques that the author tried to rearrange the historical time and space to other time and space. We can get a sense of the author's imagination of how to quote the historical facts. The the playwriting technique that changes the historical time and space could be regarded as the most outstanding character in Moonlit night of Baekma river. Movement or expansion of space that crosses freely from transcendental space to reality has a drama character that enriches dramatic imagination of audience. Expansion of space in Moonlit night of Baekma river was composed borrowing a form of "Byulsingut" naturally.
Bujayuchin is a parody of historic tragic facts, Imohwabyun, in the "Hanjungrok" that the Sadoseja was suffocated by Youngjo. It focuses on conflict of father and son. It quoted a lot of historic facts among Oh Tae Seok' historic dramas. The playwriting character lies on the composition of focusing on the theme that he set other than in chronological order of history. Bujayuchin maximizes the grotesque playwriting technique making a parody including sexual intercourse in mourning and Seja's outrage of murder to remark the theme of conflict between father and son.
The Millenary prisoner is the drama related to assassination of Kimgu, Korean War, Kwangju Democracy. It is the historic drama dealing with certain individual associated with the events in a convulsion of the history and it is the parody made using conflict and suffer of certain people who related to huge historic current with author's imagination rather than quoting facts The drama is developed by sequence of progressing with finding de facto power of a terror, treating Jang young gu and arguing of terrorists. It attracts interest and curiosity arranging tension and laxity appropriately, for example when finding de facto power, it uses tension and when treating patient, it uses dramatic laxity. It shows very grotesque of drama character in the scene which reproduce the scene composition making a fragment of the events with a doll made of a cardboard It also shows reproducing Jang yong gu's behavior using the backward motion movie technique.
Bicycle chase the secretary Yun's behavior quoting the method of a drama in the drama chasing the event of the night when the secretary Yun has experienced on the way home in father's memorial service day. It has a double layer story frame which has a story about writing a report of absence and a chase of the behavior of that night. It develops a complex organization including a story of a leprosy in the chasing his behavior. It is involved in a leprosy's family and father's memorial service and the author unravels these two story with a drama in the drama method of secretary Yun and Gu. The author hides the a registry office story in a leprosy story skillfully. The hidden registry office's light was recognized by the Solmae's light. Oh tae seok is reproducing and treating an painful injury of Korean War through a stage of way home in evening of a day.
The will and failure of Kim Ok kyun's innovation who were the leader of the Kapsinjungbyun in turbulence of the last Chosun and Hon jong woo who wished the innovation after killing Kim Ok kyung and passing an entrance exam are set mainly in "The Doraji" The author form an image using compression and omission in the scene of dealing with historic time and many historic events for 20 years and the movement of time and place is leapt freely.
In this part, the author quoted a descriptive technique. It forms a strong inner image inserting a mute 'a drama in the drama' into the plot in free tim