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The Sphere of Court Life and its Role in the Formation of High Renaissance Comedy in England at the End of the XVI century
- Authors: Chernozemova E.N.1
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- Moscow Pedagogical State University
- Issue: No 4(898) (2025)
- Pages: 120–126
- Section: Literary criticism
- URL: https://journal-vniispk.ru/2542-2197/article/view/292045
- ID: 292045
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The article examines the elements of the court mask as the genre in George Peele’s play «The Araygnement of Paris. A Pastorall» (1584). The purpose is to reveal the logic of interaction between the sphere of court life and the field of performing arts and to determine the peculiarities of the tonality of the analyzed play. The tasks are to consider the internal hidden conflicting oppositions of the pastoral underlying the mask culture as engines of genre development of an externally conflict–free mask. The article highlights such functions of the «mask» as praising the monarch and creating an emblem of the court, in which each participant sees and realizes his own place. The tragic and satirical notes of the pastoral play are revealed, the shades of which are characteristic as concomitant for the comediography of the period under consideration.
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Elena Nikolaevna Chernozemova
Moscow Pedagogical State University
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Email: chernozem888@yandex.ru
Doctor of Philology (Dr. habil.), Professor at the Department of World Literature, Institute of Philology
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