ПЬЕСА О НАВХОДОНОСОРЕ ЦАРЕ, О ТЕЛЕ ЗЛАТЕ И О ТРИЕХ ОТРОЦЕХ, В ПЕЩИ НЕ СОЖЖЁННЫХ СИМЕОНА ПОЛОЦКОГО И ЕЁ ЗАПАДНОЕВРОПЕЙСКИЕ ИСТОЧНИКИ
SIMEON POLOTSKY’S DRAMA NEBUCHADNEZZAR THE TSAR AND ITS WESTERN-EUROPEAN DRAMA SOURCES

Summary/Abstract: Тhis paper aims to reconsider the influences of Western-European drama of the XVII century on the creation of Russian baroque and the first drama writer in Russia Simeon Polotsky. During the initial period, Russian theatre, especially during the XVI and XVII centuries, was under the strong influences of Western theatre culture. This paper reconsiders the influence of German, French, English and Polish theatre plays. Plots of his playwright were popular and well known in Western European literature from the XII century. In this paper, we tried to reconsider those influences on the example of his drama Nebuchadnezzar the Tsar. This drama plot was well-known in Western European theatre, and Simeon Polotsky knew some of them.

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