HUMANITARIAN RESEARCHES

Journal of fundamental and applied researches

2013. №4, pp. 079-087

Zhatkin Dmitriy N. - Doctor of Philology,Professor, Penza State Technological Academy, 440605, Russia, Penza, Baydukova pr. / Gagarin str., 1a / 11, ivb40@yandex.ru.

Ryabova Anna A. - Candidate of philology, Penza State Technological Academy, 440605, Russia, Penza, Baydukova pr. / Gagarin str., 1a / 11, sva00@yandex.ru.

This article is devoted to Christopher Marlowe’s (1564–1593) creative activity in the perception and analysis of the Russian literary criticism at the end of the XIX-th – beginning of the XX-th centuries, in particular, works of the outstanding researcher of Shakespeare N.I. Storozhenko, who in his monographies “Shkespeare’s Predecessors. An Episode from the History of the English Drama in the Epoch of Elizabeth. Lilly and Marlowe” (1872), which received favourable comments in the magazines “Beseda”, “Vestnik of Europe”, Petersburg journal in the German language “Russische Revue”, “Robert Greene, his Life and Works” (1878), which caused criticism of Alexander N. and Alexey N. Veselovskiye, and other research works for the first time defended the moral image of Marlowe and gave his drama creative work true assessment, based on the results of the literary works analysis in the context of Elizabethian drama development.

Key words: Christopher Marlowe, N, I, Storozhenko, Russian literary criticism, drama, tradition, intercultural communication

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