DOCUMENT CHOICE AS BASE OF CONFLICT IN IONA DRUTSE’S PLAY “RETURNING TO OWN CIRCLES”

Dzhola Elena Dmitriyevna

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The aim of the article is to find out how diaries and letters by Tolstoy, recollections of family members and friends about the last years of his life are used in the play and become structure of historical and biographical drama. Druta based his dramatic work views and judgments of Tolstoy himself described in his diaries and letters. The author also relied on the memoirs of those whom he believed to be Lev Nikolaevich’ like-minded people.

Keywords: document, historical and biographical drama, plot, composition, laws of drama, historical authenticity

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Issue: 2, 2013

Pages: 108 — 113

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