• Lermontov’s “Masquerade” and Shakespeare’s dramaturgy (“Othello”, “Cimbeline”, “The Winter Tale”): On the of artistic anthropology

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DOI: 10.35852/2588-0144-2022-3-51-69

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Sergei A. Shul’ts

Dr. Sc. in Philology, 
Independent Researcher
Rostov-on-Don, Russia
E-mail: s_shulz@mail.ru

Lermontov’s “Masquerade” and Shakespeare’s dramaturgy (“Othello”, “Cimbeline”, “The Winter Tale”): On the of artistic anthropology

Abstract

The article is considering the roll-calls in the subject structure and in the genre-motive sphere between Lermontov’s drama “Masquerade” and Shakespeare’s dramaturgy (“Othello”, “Cimbeline”, “The Winter’s Tale”).With all the closeness and even partly continuity of personality’s question in the Renaissance and in Romanticism, it is important to note the similarity of Shakespeare and Lermontov’s bringing to the forefront the concept of artistic anthropology. In their works, the image of a person concentrates around itself all the other features of artistic reality. Shakespeare’s balance of the world and man is obvious in the final analysis. While Lermontov confronts the world and man in his dramaturgy. In a holistic autoscript of his behavior, Arbenin, like Othello, also predicts a pessimistic ending ahead of time. There is a certain self-construction of both Othello and Arbenin. The underlying reason for their actions is not “passion”, but their own artificial ideas about how to behave in a given situation, about what certain relationships should be, and so on. The Shakespearean theme of the existential-anthropological experiment in “Cimbeline” portends the image of Pechorin from A Hero of Our Time. Arbenin’s “experiments” are known from his monologues about his past, from the explication of the Unknown’s story; finally, the idea of an “experiment” – revenge inspires the act of the Unknown. The fact of Hermione’s “resurrection” in “The Winter’s Tale” goes back to the concept of the triumph of the implied natural-cosmic harmony and the realization of a universal world utopia. Lermontov, by the death of Nina, demonstrates the irreversibility of individual lives’ catastrophe, the impossibility of changing the past. Being a radical romantic, he sharply contrasts life and death.

Keywords

Lermontov, Shakespeare, “Masquerade”,”Othello”, “Cimbeline”, “The Winter’s Tale”, artistic anthropology, individuality, Renaissance, Romanticism.

For citation

Shul’ts S.A. Lermontov’s “Masquerade” and Shakespeare’s dramaturgy (“Othello”, “Cimbeline”, “The winter tale”): on the artistic anthropology. Theatre. Fine Arts. Cinema. Music. 2022, no. 3, pp. 51–69.

DOI: 10.35852/2588-0144-2022-3-51-69

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Received: 10.08.2021

Revised: 29.06.2022

Accepted: 13.07.2022