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3.Drama,TheatreandNarrative
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momentarytextproductionandexperience,andbodilyco-presenceof
senderandreceiver.
Imakeadistinctionbetweendramaandtheatreandthustoealine
ofalong-establisheddifferentiationbetweendramatheoryandtheatre
theory[DavisandPostlewait,eds.2013:23;Fischer-Lichte2014:12-17].
InSłownikterminówliterackichthereisafollowingpassagefromthedef-
initionofHdrama:”HAdramaticworkbelongstoliteratureonlyinsofar
asitisaverbalcreationcomparabletoepicandlyricaltexts,yetinits
actualrealizationitbelongstotheatreart”[Głowińskietal.1988:96;see
Głowiński,Okopień-Sławińska,Sławiński1975:394].6Inotherwords,as
EliRozikputsit,dramaHbelongsintheprovinceofliterarytheory”whilst
theatrereferstoHthenon-verbalaspectsofperformance”[2008a:1].This
duality[seeGłowiński,Okopień-Sławińska,Sławiński1975:391;Van-
haesebrouck2004]isaninherentfeatureofdramaticworkandanobject
of,respectively,Hliterarydramatheory”andHtheatricaldramatheory”
[Głowiński,Okopień-Sławińska,Sławiński1975:391;Głowińskietal.
1988:527;Limon2003:5-77].7
DramaisdefinedasHoneofthethreebasicliterarymodesincluding
worksdestinedforscenicrealization,ofplotcharacter,dominatedbydia-
logueintheverbalplane”[Głowińskietal.1988:96].8TheatreisHade-
scriptive/evocativetextfundamentallygeneratedbythetheatremedium”
[Rozik2008a:18].9ItisHaconcretization,realization,ortransposition”of
drama,whichservesasaHblueprintfortheatre”[DavisandPostlewait,
eds.2013:21-24].ItisaresultofsemioticHtranslation”fromonetextinto
another:HTheartistsmustappropriateandassimilatethe[dramatic-B.L.]
textortextsinsuchawaythatsomethingotherthanthewrittentextis
created-theperformance”[Fischer-Lichte2014:66].Crucially,the(thea-
tre’s)spectacleisapotentialityof(drama’s)textuality,andthepotentiality
isinvariablyamatterofspecificsynchronicartisticconventions.
Thetheoryofdramaresemblesthetheoryofliteraryworks,suchas
novelsandpoems,andthetheoryoftheatreshould,accordingtoRo-
zik,Hfirstandforemostfocusonthenatureofthismedium”andoper-
ateHuponafundamentalactofreading”[2008a:18].SincetheHcentral
characteristics”oftheatreincludefourelements(mediality,materiality
(andtransience),semioticityandaestheticity[Fischer-Lichte2014:18]),
itsanalysisneedstotakeintoaccountthemulti-dimensionalityofaspec-
tacle:itsliteraryaspect(dramatictext),acting(includingbodylanguage,
voice,rhythm,tempo,movement,characterizationetc.),scenography,