Information about the author:
Marina S. Shchukina
Marina S. Shchukina, PhD in Philology, Teacher of Russian language and literature of the First Moscow Cadet Corps, Zelenogradskaya 9, 125413 Moscow, Russia; Senior Researcher, Department of Classical Western Literature and Comparative Literary Studies, А.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Povarskaya St., 25А, bld. 1, 121069 Moscow, Russia.
ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0009-0004-4799-154X
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Abstract:
The article examines the works of modern European playwrights such as T. Stoppard (Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead), A. Nicolaj (Hamlet in Spicy Sauce), Jerzy Zurek (After Hamlet), J. Głowacki (Fortinbras Gets Drunk), N. Yordanov (The Murder of Gonzago), T. Akhtman (Ophelia, Gertrude, Denmark and others) as key examples of the artistic reinterpretation of the Renaissance model of humanism in European drama of the last third of the 20th century. The decentralization, deheroization, satirical reinterpretation, and axiological devastation of Hamlet’s image in these plays highlight the crisis of the traditional European humanistic concept of personality and the quest for a new modern hero. The article also analyzes the primary receptive strategy in these works, which involves shifting the focus of perception and interpretation of Shakespeare’s tragedy to the perspectives of its minor characters.
