日本の近代創作劇における一考察 ー1910～20年代における小説家の戯曲創作を中心にー

Abstract

Around 1910-1920, Japan was in the transition period from Meiji to Taisho era, and the cultural trendof that time changed Eastern Asian people’s quality and value of life enormously.Especially those wholived in Korea and Japan.It is also noticeable that original plays touched on prosperity of popculture.Plays created by novelists were very popular in this period, and interestingly, most of these playswere so called ‘Lesedrama’ which means readable play. Lesedrama can create a fantastic atmosphere by utilizing dramatic elements of novels and plays.From awriter’s perspective, Lesedrama would be the easiest way to express the writer’s obsession that instills,in one form or another, his or her existence in works. Considering the facts listed above, readers who culturally matured in the 1910-1920’s accommodatedLesedrama as a way of expressing oneself.Readers also recognized it as a literary device, so novelistsexpanded the creation of Lesedrama.Although the literary and theatrical circles of that time assessedLesedrama as an extension of a novel and looked upon it with a cynical eye, this theatrical reform wasan active form of expression of 1910-1920’s novelists who tried to build one’s own literary world onpaper. In that sense, Shingeki drama in the 1910-1920’s represents literature oriented and dramaticexpressional era of play.In this paper, I tried to consider the desire to drama the creation of novelist thathas been entrusted to "Why novelist of Japan do not write a drama?" of Yukio Mishima.Through it, Iwill try to read the face of 1910-20 that's drama creation of novelist had form a vogue once.