Theatrical Work as an Interpretive Being

This monograph is a systematic theoretical and pragmatic elaboration of the interpretive approach to understanding the power of experience of a theatrical work. The boundaries of interpretation of theatrical works, i.e. the relations between text, context, extra-text and extra-context, and also overinterpretation and underinterpretation, are some of the specific topics analysed in the monograph. It explains various theoretical standpoints, which lead to the understanding of morphological, expressive and meaning variability of theatrical works, as well as their interpretive stability. The basic questions are: What is the reason for a theoretical work's formal, expressional and semantic variability? What are the rigid and stable components of a theatrical work, including its reception? The monograph builds on the reception aesthetics of the Nitra School (Slovakia) and its Theory of Interpretation (Popovic, Miko, Žilka, Plesník etc.), other humanities disciplines (Eco, Rorty, Culler, Lotman etc.) and the theoretical concepts in theatre (Fischer-Lichte, Ubersfeld, Pavice, Zich, Osolsobe etc.).