W. Shakespeare and C. Marlowe in Individual Thesauri (The Case of Russian-language Diaries of the 19th-20th Centuries)
The author analyzes different contexts of mentions of the English playwrights W. Shakespeare and C. Marlowe as well as of their works in some Russian-language diaries written in the 19th-20th centuries that have been published within the framework of the “Prozhito” project. The number of references to Shakespeare and his plays in the thesaurus of Russian culture far exceeds the number of mentions of his contemporaries' legacy due to the “cult of Shakespeare”. The obtained data gives us an opportunity to reveal some tendencies related to the reception of the two English dramatists in individual thesauri. If it is almost impossible to cover even 10 percent of the available cases of references to Shakespeare in Russophone diaries in one article then it is feasible to present examples connected with his contemporary, Marlowe, because of their comparative paucity.