Lietuvių teatro istorijos bruožai: istorinės XX a. I-os pusės vaizduotės formos
The characteristics of Lithuanian theatre history: the forms of historic imagination in the 1st half of the 20th century

Summary/Abstract: This essay concerns the problems of national history stage interpretation and its development from the very beginning of Lithuanian theatre till the end of the 1st Independence. Namely, it analyses the change of forms of history imagination that reflected themselves in historic theatre development: (1) longing for a heroic march that oriented the amateur stage of “Lithuanian gatherings” towards the pathetically exalted history images (1905–1916); (2) ignoring the failure in history that suspended the search of dramatic expression and provoked continuation of ode style in history stage representation (1920–1929); (3) the discovery of solitude that originated from the sense of the decline of history as consolation and manifested itself as psychological attentiveness to a human drama in history (1929–1935); and (4) social sensitivity that revealed itself in the rhetoric of humanity of lower social classes and historic society‘s social evenness (1935-1940).

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