THE PROBLEM OF GENRE IDENTIFICATION OF THE CLOSET DRAMA OF 18TH-19TH CENTURIES

Abstract

The article analyzes the genre features and preconditions for the development of non-stage drama in romantic literature at the turn of the 18th-19th centuries. Closet drama is understood as a persistent literary form that inherits dramatic and epic generic features and is a kind of dramatic genre that is not intended to be staged. The author also analyzes the literary and non-literary factors that influenced the formation of the genre, and raises the question of its legitimacy. The author assigns a decisive role in the liberalization of the dramatic form and transformation of its understanding to the novel and the tendency of romanization associated with it.