Russian fate of “The tragical history of doctor Faustus” by Christopherh Marlowe (The second half of the 20th century– the beginning of the 21st century

Dmitry N. Zhatkin; Anna A. Ryabova

Dmitry N. Zhatkin Penza State Technological University, Penza, Russian Federation
Anna A. Ryabova Penza State Technological University, Penza, Russian Federation

Keywords: Christopher Marlowe, dramaturgy, reminiscence, tradition, literary criticism, Russian-English literary communications, crosscultural communication, literary detail.

Abstract

The article continues the comprehension of literary and critical and translation perception in Russia of one of Christopher Marlowe’s most considerable works – “The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus”, the attention is paid to researches and translations of the second half of the 20th century – the beginning of the 21st century. The comparative and historical and comparative and typological research methods, technics of the comparative analysis were used in the article. In the second half of the 1940-s – 1950-s there were new translations of “The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus”, made by Birukova and Amosova, books and articles by Anikst, Pinsky, Parfyonov, Samarin, etc. were published later. They allowed to comprehend Marlowe’s text in the context of the theatrical development of Elizabethan England, to go deeper into understanding of literary details of descriptions. Zakharov, Makarov, Chernozemova, Shaytanov, Kovalevskaya’s works became events of the last years (Zakharov and Makarov, 2013; Chernozemova, 2012; Shaytanov, 2013; Kovalevskaya, 2012). In them, with reference to the Western European experience of understanding of Marlowe’s heritage, some separate peculiarities of his outlook, which in an essential measure had influenced the creation of “The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus”, are underlined. The research conducted allows to claim that the attention of Russian literature to Marlowe’s was expressed in the appearance of new translations of the tragedy, publication of interesting observations over motives and images of Marlowe’s work by leading Shakespearean scholars in the second half of the 1940-s – 1950-s. In the second half of the 20th century the work was also interesting for many writers who presented literary interpretations of Marlowe’s tragic death (Gubin, 1974; Nagibin, 1990; Bulychev, 2005; Parnov, 2005).

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Author Biographies

Dmitry N. Zhatkin, Penza State Technological University, Penza, Russian Federation

Department of Translation and Methods of Translation, Penza State Technological University, Baidukov Thoroughfare / Gagarin Street, 1a / 11, Penza, Russian Federation

Anna A. Ryabova, Penza State Technological University, Penza, Russian Federation

Department of Translation and Methods of Translation, Penza State Technological University, Penza, Russian Federation

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