Svijet kao neuređena pozornica. Opaske o dvjema dramama Slobodana Šnajdera
The World as an »Unarranged« Stage. Notes on Two Plays by Slobodan Šnajder

Summary/Abstract: "The world as a stage" is the starting point to the intermediai interpretation of modern dramaturgy. And if theatrical problematics is the basic topic of the play, the stage will be doubled with the result of "a stage on the stage". Slobodan Šnajder's plays Hrvatski Faust (The Croatian Faust) and Gamllet operate with the scenic possibilities of such a stage on the stage. Four codes overlap in the plots of these plays: the arche type code (Faust, it is Hamlet), the code of performing this arche type, the code of the play of characters in performance, and the code of their realistic roles in wartime. This overcoding and overlapping of codes can be considered a configuration of the most complex sign, in the sense of Louis Hjelmslev's linguistics: the first one is the code of the substance of expression, the second the form of expression, the third the form of contents, and the fourth one the substance of contents. On either side of such a scheme of the theatrical sign there is the endless field of "the world" as "blind history".

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