The correlation of Ukrainian dramatic literatuture with the European stylistic trends

Abstract

There are some peculiarities that give grounds for comparison between Ukrainian theatre history an European theatrical development. It is the legacy of the Baroque casuistic doctrine of school theatre in different metamorphoses that was especially durable in Ukraine and that, together with folklore’s verve of surrealism enrooted in mythology, has predetermined the transition to modern drama. The emergence of realistic dramatic works in the last two decades of the nineteenth century entailed stylistic compression and confusion synchronous with the formation of naturalism and symbolism, that would impact upon the rapid explosion of dramatic productions in the last decade before the First World War. The extreme restrictions of the inter-war period contributed to special efforts of narrative strategy with the special bias towards retrospective attitudes of neoclassicism.