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RUSSIAN RACINE’S HAMLET: “MODERNIZATION” OF W. SHAKESPEARE’S TRAGEDY IN RUSSIAN LITERATURE OF THE 18TH С.

INTRODUCTION The second third of the 18 th century in Russian literature was marked by the emergence of the aesthetics and genre system of classicism. One of the leading places in the development of theoretical foundations, the creation of samples of different genres works belongs at that time to Alexander Petrovich Sumarokov. He wrote epistles, odes, satires, parables, songs, but above all the contemporaries appreciated his dramaturgy; not without a reason was he so proud of the title of Russian Racine. The active search for model Western European authors, whose works his plays could be based on, attracted his attention to the great English playwright. It had been long known, that he was the first Russian writer in 1747 to mention the name of a great playwright in the poetic tractate Epistola on Poetry writing: “Shakespeare, though ignorant” 1 , and in 1748 he wrote the play Hamlet 2 , which was first staged in 1750. It was the author’s second tragedy, and it stood out in his literary heritage. Other plays, written in the late 1740s – early 1750s, focused on events and names drawn from the history of Ancient Russia. This fact, on the one hand, was motivated by the concept of its antiquity, on the other, this concept proved and stated the possibility to draw inspiration and plots from his own country.