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A Short Course on the Decline in one act. On Brešan’s One-act Plays.

Goran Pavlić


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Abstract

According to Peter Szondi, the one-act play should not be conceived of as a short play, but as a part of a play which emancipated itself into a distinct unit. Unlike classical form of play where tension derives from interpersonal activities which strives towards a resolution, the dramatic situation in one-act play functions as the ultimate horizon of everything that happens. In other words, the determinism that characterizes the one-act play is absolute, thus it represents the »drama of the un-free man«. Kravar considers Szondi’s definition as the too restrictive and stresses the complexity and variety of influences which structure this particular genre in the modernist period. Following Kravar’s suggestions, I’ll analyse four one-act plays written by Ivo Brešan, form his cycle »A Short Course of the Long Decline«, and counterpoise them to Brešan’s distinctive dramatic style in his more classical works.

Keywords

one-act play; Brešan, Ivo; Kravar, Zoran; politics, Modernism

Hrčak ID:

246607

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/246607

Publication date:

20.10.2020.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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