Młodopolski dramat wewnętrzny

Abstract

The title category of “inner drama” is conceived of as an operational concept and not as a. generic name by the author. The material for analysis are various models of inner drama: from the analytical drama, in which one of the ways leading to the character’s understanding of his contemporary situation are conversations conducted with that character - projection of his psyche (e.g. Stanisław Przybyszewski’s playwriting), to the emigration drama including its most extreme version, namely Ich Drama); a subjective theatre revealing the author’s inner feelings and desires (e.g. some dramas by Tadeusz Miciński), which was favoured by the expressionists. The article deals with a few components of the inner drama poetics, among others, dramatic discourse, creation of characters, formation of time and space and composition. Thus, for example inner drama highlights the author’s subjectivity of the dramatic discourse and characters’ utterances are clearly seen as elements of the author’s speech. As far as particular stage characters are concerned, there are different structures used, such as the mentioned projections of the psyche of one of the protagonists, author’s mentor figures, or apparently autonomous subjects, which are in fact nuclei of some personality traits of the author’s. It is worth mentioning that frequent measures taken in order to form the world of characters are such complicated procedures as duplication of characters or their overlap. They are disseminated by means of the oniric technique, which is relatively frequent in the discussed type of drama and which influences the spacial and temporal economics (condensation of temporal plans, dimensional overlap and domination of mental space). What needs to be emphasised is the structural looseness, which is characteristic of the inner drama and which consists in using scenes structured additively and with no direct links between one another. In the most extreme realisations of the drama format discussed here the fundamental morphological unit of the plot is rather a situation placed in isolation from others than an event perceived as a link of a chain.