조선적 근대극의 창출, 김우진의 근대극론

Abstract

Kim Woo-jin had not taken the appropriate position in the Korea drama history that was the reason for his expressionism dramas and his unique life. Moreover, his drama theories didn't interpret accurately in spite of the changing with time. In this paper, I tried to interpret his whole theatre theories to overcome this kind of problem. The point of reading his articles about drama theories, it had changed from the early perspective to the following it since 1925. First, I compared theatre theory of Kim Woo-jin with Osanai Kaoru's. As a result, inner side of his early theory had gotten from nationalization project discussion of the Meiji government. After that he translated and presented the western modern drama which had the essence of theater revolution. He had gotten an intention for making the standardized modern drama like as western style. In the process,he awaked to reality of Joseon during the Japanese Colonial Rule. Therefore, he found the possibility to overcome the colonial situation from German expressionism drama. He concerned about "Vitality" from German expressionism drama also "Life Force" from Bernard Shaw. The Life Force was the method to create for the Korean modern drama. Eventually, he wrote the play <a wild boar> using the life force. In Korea drama history, he became a very important post-colonial writer because of those works.