Narodziny współczesnej dramaturgii koreańskiej

• Authors: Ewa Rynarzewska

Title variants

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The Beginning of Modern Korean Dramaturgy

• Languages of publication: PL EN

Abstracts

EN

This article is an attempt to reconstruct the process of development of modern Korean dramaturgy, which was initiated at the beginning of the 20th century. It was a result of rapid social, cultural and artistic transformations faced by Korea in the first decades of the previous century. Korean public’s expectations increased when the first institutionalised theatres were created and Japanese and Western theatres became more popular. People expected thorough changes in theatre and exerted pressure on theatre managements and theatre groups representing four main theatrical genres: classic opera ch’ang-guk, theatre of ‘new school’ (shinp’a), ‘new drama’ (shin-gŭk), and popular entertaining theatre (taejung-gŭk). Korean theatres, trying to meet the needs of their audiences and survive in the unstable conditions of occupied Korea (1910–1945), used a variety of methods to solve one of the most serious and severe problems, which was the shortage of scenic material. The article discusses the strategies of Korean theatre groups and their artistic achievements. It also provides information about the theatre repertoire and the list of plays staged in the first four decades of the 20th century.

Keywords

EN

Korean Theatre; Korean Drama; p'ansori (singing drama); shin-yon'guk (new drama); ch'ang-guk (Korean traditional opera); shinp'a theatre ('new school' theatre)

• Publisher: Polskie Towarzystwo Orientalistyczne
• Journal: Przegląd Orientalistyczny
• Year: 2013
• Issue: 3-4(247-248)
• Pages: 195-214

Contributors

author

Ewa Rynarzewska

• Uniwersytet Warszawski