Croatian Academy of Science and Split Literary Circles and Arts
Abstract
Iako jedan od dominantnih žanrova u europskom kazalištu 18. i 19. stoljeća, pučka igra ili pučki komad nema svoje primjereno mjesto u teoriji književnosti. Niti je do kraja ni definiran, niti pozicionira unutar sustava žanrova tog vremena jer ga je suvremena teorija prezrela i izbacila iz kanona. Članak kreće od teze da je žanr izbačen iz kanona ne zbog nedovoljne kvalitete ili razvoja drame koji ga je učinio suvišnim, nego zbog izvanknjiževnih razloga. Prolazeći kroz osnovne kara¬kteristike i konvencije žanra, članak pokušava dokazati da je razlog odbacivanja žanra u svjetonazorskoj promjeni u europskom društvu zbog koje je u i književnom kanonu izbačeno sve što afirmira vrijednosti do tada važećeg kršćanskog svjeton¬azora, a pučka drama upravo te vrijednosti proglašava temeljnim razlozima pisanja. Članak predlaže generički termin pučka drama te ponovno čitanje i vrednovanje djela bez spomenutog svjetonazorskog ograničenja.Although one of the dominant genres in European theatre in the 18th and 19th centuries, folk drama does not have a proper place in the theory of literature. It is neither fully defined nor positioned in the genre system of that time because con-temporary theory despised it and threw it out of canon. The article starts from the thesis that this genre has been thrown out of canon not because of its inadequate quality or because of the development of drama that made it redundant, but because of extraliterary reasons. Dealing with basic characteristics and conventions of the genre, the article attempts to prove that the reason for the rejection of this genre lies in the worldview change of European society, which also led literary canon to renounce everything that would affirm the values of the previously incumbent Christian worldview, values that the folk drama declares as its fundamental reasons for writing. The article suggests a generic term folk drama as well as re-reading and re-evaluating these works without the aforementioned worldview limitation
