장호의 시극운동에 관한 연구

Abstract

This paper is a study on Jang Ho's Poetic Drama Movement. In particular, he considered his achievements that devoted his passion for the development of Korean Poetic Drama for about 10 years from the late 1950s to the late 1960s. The major achievements of his works in Korean Poetic Drama History can be summarized as follows. First, he broke the long vacancy due to the social turmoil in the early days of the formation of Korean Poetic Drama History and prose (1957.8) and works (1958.8) The series of announcements to prevent the crisis of disconnection and to continue the flow of the Poetic Drama History. Second, he defined the Poetic Drama as a new comprehensive art and organized the Poetic Drama Movement as an alternative to overcome the problems of modern poetry and drama at the same time. Third, he created his own works with much interest in the Poetic Drama Performance, and realized the experiment and stage performance through radio broadcasting for the first time. Fourth, he confirmed the possibility that the Poetic Drama can be performed alone by creating and performing the feature length Surimoi (<수리뫼>) of the 4th act for the first time. The fruits of this Jang Ho's Poetic Drama Movement can be recorded as the brightest achievement in Korean Poetic Drama History for nearly 100 years.