김재철과 조선연극사

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Kim Jae-cheol and History of Koeran Drama ; Youn, Jin-HeonKim Jae-cheol was born of a rich family in Goesan, Chungcheongbuk-do. He graduated from Gyeongseong first high schol and Gyeongseong Imperial University. He was one of elites at the top of those days. It made him for his intense intelectual search and practical 45) 무라야마 토모요시(村山知義), 일본 프롤레타리아 연극의 문제 (1928.11), 이석만정대성 역, 일본 프롤레타리아 연극론 , 월인, 1999, 23~42면 참조.46) 宋錫夏, 朝鮮の人形芝居, 民俗藝術 2券 4號, 지평사서방, 1929.김재철과 조선연극사 425practice to secede positivism of Japanese Notional Schol. So he came to reach the historical conclusion which a paly owned by laborers and farmers and for them.The status of History of Korean Drama was resolute as the first history of korean drama, but ful-blown discusion start just now for its mean and value. There are a tacit agreement among established studies that description of History of Koeran Drama is positivism, but we are not able to confound positive method with positivism. Kim Jae-cheol assorted his object from traditional dance, Sandae-drama[山臺劇], and Puppetry which were produced from 1920’s to 1930’s. And then he demonstrated it by documentary records.Also he shed new lights traditional dramas, which was considered as old relic to exclude an object, as an academic object of scientific and objective study. From this, he imagined korean national as the cultural subject of one’s own and also made a position against an opinion of japanese scholars who simply imagined the Korean Peninsula as passage through. He premised that these traditional dramatic elements, which have internationalism and universality, were the popular culture. So he could provides appearance of proletarian drama, of which subject was people of laborers and farmers as an historical necesity.In spite of his short life, meaning of his works and new drama stil survive in the present time.