The dramatic text and its voices. An essay on some aspects of the relationship between dramatic text and their stagings. Cover Image

Divadelný text a jeho hlasy. Úvaha o niektorých aspektoch vzťahu medzi divadelným textom a jeho inscenáciou
The dramatic text and its voices. An essay on some aspects of the relationship between dramatic text and their stagings.

Author(s): Peter Michalovič
Subject(s): Theatre, Dance, Performing Arts, Theory of Literature, Sociology of Art
Published by: Ústav divadelnej a filmovej vedy SAV
Keywords: transcription of dramatic texts; semantic and expressive intonation; architectonic form; climax; compositional form

Summary/Abstract: This study deals with certain aspects of the relationship between dramatic textsand their stagings. The dramatic text itself cannot be viewed as a kind of supraindividual set of instructions left by the author in a textual form to those who decide to carry out stagings and performances based on them. This is partly because the very formof the dramatic text changes, for example when a manuscript is transcribed, to a formthat corresponds to the actually valid conventions for the updating transcription ofa language. The purpose of the transcription is to update the original language of thedramatic text to make it comprehensible and acceptable for another audience and toenable it to function even as an autonomous literary work. Although the transcriptionmay change the original text to the minimum, even these minimal interventions leadto a change in the essence of the dramatic text. Another factor of change is the transfer of the written text into speech, while a significant role in this transfer is played byintonation, which forms the focus of the second part of this study.

  • Issue Year: 70/2022
  • Issue No: 04
  • Page Range: 317-330
  • Page Count: 13
  • Language: Slovak