Conceptual space of the drama. The today’s day. Review of «Experimental dictionary of modern drama» (Siedlce 2019)

Abstract

Drama in the history of literature has always been and remains to this day a literary genre undergoing the greatest changes. Humanities, and Philology in the first place, is designed not only to record those changes, not only to state their presence, but also to analyze the processes taking place in drama, and for that purpose a worthy terminological apparatus is necessary. In the “Experimental dictionary of modern drama”, published in 2019 in Poland and considered in this review, there is a place both to explain the new facets of already established concepts in Philology related to drama, and terms that are quite recent, just being introduced into scientific use exactly in connection with the current state of the dramatic literary genre and in this regard, are able to convey that state. The dictionary itself, on the one hand, is the result of long-term observations of researchers on the drama of the turn of the 20^th–21^st centuries, on certain elements of the drama of this period, on specific dramatic examples, and on the other hand, it acts as a necessary terminological aid for future studies, addressed to the latest drama.