| Title of the article: |
The plays on the Adam and Eve’s plot in the works by Johann Gottfried Gregory and Joost van den Vondel |
| Author(s): |
KAPLUN M. V. |
| Section: |
Philology |
| Year: |
2015 |
| Issue: |
№ 3, (37) |
| Pages: |
155-164 |
| Index UDK: |
821.161.1.0 |
| Index BBK: |
83.3(2Рос=Рус)1 |
| Abstract: |
The play of Johann Gottfried Gregory «A pitiful comedy of Adam and Eve» (November, 1675), written for the first Russian court theater of Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich, is the closest in its poetics to the play «Adam in Exile, or the Tragedy of Tragedies» (1664 g.) by Dutch playwright Joost van den Vondel. The similarity of the two pieces can be traced at the level of the composition (eg, Adam monologue, scene of temptation and the Fall) and image system (the image of Adam, Eve, the archangels, the Serpent and allegorical characters). Genre originality of the plays (moralite, a Lutheran drama), originated in the mainstream tradition of the school theater, is considered in the context of the Lutheran outlook of Gregory and Vondel. Thus, the comparative analysis of two pieces allows us to trace the influence of Western school drama on the work of the author of the first Russian plays J. G. Gregory, who, as a Protestant, relied largely on Western models, while working on plays for the first Russian theater. |
| Keywords: |
Russian drama of XVII c., Dutch drama of XVII c., the Biblical story, school drama, medieval mystery, moralite, Lutheran ideology |
| Bibliography: |
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