두 편의 80년대 희곡에 드러난 판소리적 특성 연구: <토선생전>(1980)과 <방디기전>(1987)을 중심으로

Abstract

This article focused on how Pansori is accepted and re-created in two representative 1980's korean modern plays, <The story of Bangdigi> and <The story of Rabbit>. And the results of it can be summarized as below. 1) The first topic of modern korean drama genre is how to accept various material of everyday life, how to reveal contemporary thought, and how to figure it in substantial works. Two play, <The story of Bangdigi> and <The story of Rabbit> pick up detailized material of real life and finally achieve the reality of contemporary era. Two plays have succeeded the structure of classical Pansori well, based on the story about real life of 1980's. 2) Second topic is about various devices from Pansori to reveal themes of drama. First of it is direct heckling and malicious language against unrighteousness and bad world. And through irony of self-degradation, two works express paradoxical hope. And, as succeeding the ending technique derived from Pansori, so called 'exhilaration'(神明풀이), two plays revealed people's positive will to overcome hard boiled pain of contemporary audiences through laughter and solidarity. But, on the contrary hand, it is limit of two works as universal modern drama genre. 3) Third topic is about variation of epic narrator and plot. Overall, two plays create the unique dramatic beauty, through appropriate mix of sympathy and allopathy as it lying in Pansori. Two plays let the audience to maintain critical distance as in the way of free interaction between 'epic' and 'dramatic' aspects. First way of it is blending and coexisting epic narrater and dramatic character. Second way is leading two narrater to confront each other and to debate some problem of story and plot. And, third is creating multi-character and reveal the process of it. Finally, two plays adapted the real materials from 1980's everyday life, and pursue the classical theme of Pansori, 'people's optimism'. And with some temporal discourse and developing the function of epic narrater, changing sympathy and allopathy, they achieved unique dramatic beauty successfully.