Lyric drama
The lyrical drama is a drama type in which lyric are elements in the foreground and dramatic are pushed into the background.
According to the ancient view, poetry is what is sung in contrast to drama and epic . A lyrical drama is still used in the language of the 18th century as a sung (or otherwise musicalized) drama. Drame lyrique is primarily an operatic genre in the second half of the 19th century.
The adjective "lyrical" also appears as a designation for plays and thus does not exclusively name their difference to plays that are written in prose . In contrast to classical dramas in verse form, the characteristics of lyrical drama include a certain lack of action and characters without changing the stage setting . Despite the appearance of other characters, with whom there is only limited communication, the main character's inner life is at the center of the plot, which results in a proximity of this self-observing theater character to the lyrical self . In viewers of performances of lyrical dramas , the illusion should not arise that they are observing a "real action".
Examples are yesterday. Dramatic study in one act in verse (1891) or Der Tor und der Tod (1898) by Hugo von Hofmannsthal .
literature
- Hans-Joachim Wagner: Lyrisches Drama und Drame lyrique: A sketch of the literary and music historical conceptual history. In: Archives for Musicology . 47, No. 1. 1990, pp. 73-84.
- Volker Deubel: Lyrical Drama. In: Günther and Irmgard Schweikle (eds.): Metzler Literature Lexicon. Terms and definitions. 2nd edition. Metzler, Stuttgart 1990, ISBN 3-476-00668-9 , pp. 288-289.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Stefan Scherer: Introduction to Drama Analysis. WBG, Darmstadt 2010, p. 89.