Abstract
This thesis is the third study to discuss the musicality of Meyerhold’s plays. While the previous two papers explored the cultural background and aesthetic principle of musicality, and the musical organization of speech and action, this paper examines how musical principles operate in the composition and structure of plays. His musical experiments were intensified by showing the aspects of evolution and development, and over a long period of time, the stage element of music contributed to the structuring and synthesis of the performance, and became an essential principle defining the ideological content of the play.<BR> The musicality that Meyerhold aims for is a methodology that reveals the essence of the play, independent of the linguistic text. His musicality is not only self-sufficient in itself, but has become a dramaturgical component called the subtext beyond the additional and modifying functions of the stage situation. “Teacher Bubus”, a ‘comedy made from music,’ shows how music dominates the various stage elements that determine the structure of a performance, and the ‘musical composition of action’ was applied in earnest. “The Government Inspector” is a work in which Meyerhold
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