Information about the author:
Ekaterina V. Kuznetsova
Ekaterina V. Kuznetsova (Moscow, Russia), PhD in Philology, Research Fellow, A.M. Gorky Institute of World literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Povarskaya 25 а, 121069 Moscow, Russia.
ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6045-2162
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Abstract:
The article examines N. Teffy’s one-act play Queen Tair (1912) in the context of the parody reception of O. Wilde’s tragedy Salome (1891). As a result of comparing the plot scheme, the system of characters, the style and ideological content of these plays, it can be concluded that the Russian writer starts from Wilde’s scheme, but modifies its semantic message and pathos. She plays the love collision of Salome, and also focuses on the “Dance of the Seven Veils”, which turned into a popular number by the turn of the 1910s. An erotic dance that brings death becomes a means of salvation, and an infernal beauty becomes a clever schemer who achieves complete success. We see the writer’s movement towards the image of a cheerful cheat, who acts as a travesty double of decadent femme fatale.
