Kovács Tivadar szerk.: Theatrum — Színháztudományi értesítő 1963/2

Idegen nyelvű ismertetések: Angol

ment, but it served always some noble purpose as e.g. national interests and raising of the cultural standards in Russia, of the cultivating of the national language and through this the struggle for national independence with the Hungarians, Czechs and Southern Slavs. The central idea in almost all East-European countries was that of the bourgeois development. Moreover, the theatre of the territories under Turkish rule was started by emigrant groups. Thus it is understandable that while in the West the theatre was born with governmental support, in court and municipal theatres in Eastern Europe it was created by a certain stratum of the nation in opposition with the often foreign goverment. Dr. Tibor Kardos fellow of the Hungarian Academy of Soiences, dr. György Mihály Vajda candidate in arts, dr. Géza Staud, dr. Béla Taródi-Nagy, dr. György Székely researchers of the Institute of Theatrical Sciences made some remarks on the lectures. They analyzed the common problems of the theatrical and other artistic sciences as well as the common trends in the arts of the EastEuropean peoples. Other subjects of the discussion were:- the independent East-European culture, why is the origin of the theatre in close connexion with the highest stage of primitive community and - 132 -