Junior Researcher of the Department of Literary Studies of the Institute of Scientific Information for Social Sciences of the Russian Academy of Sciences
The article considers Ludwig Tieck’s play Fortunat standing apart from other writer’s works, in the context of dialogue with the literary tradition. Tieck’s innovative methods determine the genre features of the play, based both on folklore sources and on the Elizabethan theater and particularly William Shakespeare. Tieck’s irony undermines the essence of the dramatic genre, mixing the magical and the fabulous with the comic and grotesque along with the tragic and the terrible, thereby demonstrating unexpectedness of things happening in the world and impossibility of subordinating them to the logic of genre.
tragicomedy; fairy tale; drama; genre; Elizabethan theater; Ludwig Tieck; William Shakespeare; German romanticism; grotesque; romantic irony; fate.