STAGE COMMENTARY AS A PART OF STUDYING A DRAMATIC TEXT
The article is devoted to the methods of studying dramatic works at Literature lessons at secondary and high school, to the definition of their specificity and methods of work with them. Difficulties associated with the perception of the dramatic text lead to the use of various types of commentary: literary, lexical and phraseological, historical and everyday. Due to the fact that the dramatic work is created for stage production, a significant role is assigned to one more commentary - a stage one, which serves as a guide to the “vision” of the text and a stimulator for creative thinking. A teacher, involving the students in the analysis of the work, should create a specific performance in their imagination, which helps to penetrate into the depth of the artistic world of the dramatic text. Commentaries as a technique contribute to the dramatic fiction which gets its completed form. In this regard, the question arises about the rationality of the use of this technique, the answer to which allows the author to draw some conclusions. First, stage commentary forms a favorable atmosphere for students to mentally see the characters and the environment in which they live. Secondly, students get acquainted with stage history of the work itself: the creation and the first production, the reaction of contemporaries to the play. This contributes to the expansion of their knowledge and helps them to form an opinion about the world. Thirdly, the commentary draws attention to the remarks of the author, the cues of characters, their behavior and their attitude to others. The use of different types of commentary in the analysis of a dramatic work contributes to the development of the ability to orient oneself in the sources of information and distribute it with a view to deeper penetrate into the text. Students not only better understand what they read, but also creatively percept specific images, as setting of stage commentary on the “vision” of students is one of the conditions for successful work on the text and its deep perception.