Драматический памфлет, егo истоки и эволюция

Abstract

Dramatic pamphlet is genre modification which appeared as a result of intergeneric integration of literary forms. Its specifics is not yet investigated, although dramatic pamphlet has already its history. It originated in English literature in the Age of Enlightenment; John Gay and Henry Fielding were the founders of the form. The romantic and the i9th- -century realistic drama did not accept the dramatic pamphlet and the form has revived in the period between two World Wars. Some *extravagant" plays by Bernard Shaw and some antifascist works of Bertold Brecht (Die Rundkópfje und die Spitzkópfe, Furcht und Elend des III Reiches, Der aufhaltsame Aufstieg des Arturo Uż) are the most outstanding pamphlets of that time. Since 1960-s, after R. Hochhuth's drama's The Deputy (Der Stellvertreter) great success, a new period of the form's popularity began in FRG (BRD) and some other European countries. The dramatic pamphlet has all the distinctive marks of the non-dramatic pamphlet; the satirical colouring, the political trend of the satire, the definiteness of the object of satire, the burning topicality etc. The content peculiarity of the modification determine maximal expressiveness of style and laconicism. Besides, the dramatic pamphlet is planned and written for the stage and therefore it is in the zone of contacts with other dramatic genres and genre modifications. The synthetic character of the form is analised in the essay.