『어린이』지 수록 동극 연구—장르명과 특징을 중심으로

Abstract

Through examining children’s drama printed in ‘Eorini’, this studyexplores the perceptions of terms of children’s drama and analyses thefeatures of children’s drama in terms of both content and form. Indoing so, this work places a foundation for further studies. The terms for children’s drama printed in ‘Eorini’ journal are asfollows: children’s story drama; children’s story drama for the outside;children’s drama; boy’s drama; dialogue drama; girl’s dialogue drama;boy’s dialogue drama; theatre. Among these terms, the most frequentlyused term is children’s story drama, which derives from its motif whichis usually children’s story. In the early twenties, children’s story dramawas often used but in the thirties, children’s drama was more frequentlyemployed and finally became the prevailing term. The characteristics of the content of chidren’s drama are theemphasis of children’s right, playfulness, and providing lessons. Thefeatures of the form are the adequacy of running time, the simplicity ofdialogue, and scripts for performance not for reading. The precious legacy of our children’s literature, Eorini is needed tobe examined in terms of individual works and individual writers. For example, Bang, Jungwhan, Ma, Haesong whose works were highlyeducative in terms of content and, Jung, Insub and Choi, Kyonghwawho left many children’s drama are needed to be explored.