Open AccessCreating a Database for Theatre criticism in Greek literary journals, 1900-1950: Case Study
Author(s) -
Varvara Georgopoulou,
Zoi Ververopoulou,
Aliki Antonopoulou,
Euangelia Spiropoulou
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
international journal of contemporary research and review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 0976-4852
DOI - 10.15520/ijcrr.v11i12.866
Subject(s) - criticism , theatre criticism , literature , digitization , literary criticism , period (music) , ideology , art , literary science , history , aesthetics , computer science , political science , politics , law , computer vision
Theatre criticism holds an important place in theatre studies, especially as a tool for studying theatre history and reception - it is one of the three main branches of theatrology along with theatre history and theory. This study aims to present the cataloguing, digitization and interpretive study of a body of theatre reviews published in Greek literary journals in the years 1900-1950.
The questions that we attempted to answer in this research concern various characteristics of theatre criticism in Greece in the period we are researching, and more specifically:
The language used, its construction and function
Its main representatives
Its ideological and aesthetic axes
The reception of the plays
The connections to the European intellectual currents of the time
The ways in which the nature of the publications (literary magazines) affected the thematic and structural organization of the texts, in contrast to the reviews published on the daily press.
As part of the same project, we also created a searchable electronic database, comprising a complete index of theatre criticism published in Greek journals in the years 1900-1950, which offers users access to the full reviews.