Jiří Veltruský revisited

• Authors: Herta Schmid
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The article deals with Jiří Veltruský's ideas about the relation between the literary drama and the theatre. Veltruský speaks in favour of a reunion between both art kinds, whose theoretical and institutional separation began in the late nineteenth century. Arguing that the theatre suffers intellectually and aesthetically from the separation Veltruský refers to Jan Mukařovský's studies on the dialogue. His main opponent is Otakar Zich, who considered the written drama a mere component of the theatre. The article shows also that in Zich's and Gustav Freytag's theories one can find logical and poetical models of the dramatic plot valuable until today, yet neglected by the Prague School and by Veltruský too.

Keywords

EN

drama as a literary genre; logical structures of the dramatic plot; problems of the dominant theory; reunion of drama and theatre; Veltruský's two types of the literary drama

Discipline

• ARTS_&_ARCHITECTURE: ARTS & ARCHITECTURE

• Publisher: Masaryk University, Faculty of Arts
• Journal: Theatralia: Revue současného myšlení o divadelní kultuře (Theatralia: The revue of contemporary thought on theatre culture)
• Year: 2014
• Volume: 17
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 96-110
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Herta Schmid

• Theatralia, redakce, Masarykova univerzita, Filozofická fakulta, Katedra divadelních studií, Arna Nováka 1, 602 00 Brno, Czech Republic