| Duality of dramatic images |
| Shakespearean code |
Literary device |
A poem by B. Pasternak |
| “Hamlet” – “Macbeth”“To be or not to be?” - Macbethean witches Hamlet’s reflections – Macbeth’s reflections |
opposition,similarity in opposition |
Desyatiletie Presni (“Presnya’s Decade”) (excerpt, 1915) |
| Narrator – tragedian from Drama Shekspirova (“Shakespearean drama“) |
comparison, dual images |
Marburg (“Marburg”)(1916, 1928) |
| “Othello” – “Hamlet”Desdemona – OpheliaDesdemona, Ophelia – narrator's sisters |
parallelism, dual images |
Uroki Angliiskogo (“English Lessons”)(1917) |
| Narrator – Hamlet (Faust)Narrator's beloved – Ophelia |
poetics of choosing a dual character,dual characters within the system of dual characters |
Elene (“To Elena”) (1917) |
| Shakespeare as a character –ghost of the sonnet Shakespeare – sonnet |
dramatic dialoguedual images |
Shekspir (“Shakespeare”)(1919) |
| Pushkin – ShakespeareShakespeare – Chopin |
parallelism,images of literary twins |
the title of the cycleSon v lenuju noch (Pyat’ stikhotvorenij)(“A Midsummer Night’s Dream” (Five Poems)”) (1918-1922) |
| Shakespeare – “Hamlet”Hamlet – the ghostShakespeare – Bryusov |
parallelism,dual images,images of literary twins |
Bryusovu (“To Bryusov”) (1923) |
| narrator – Hamletnarrator – actor playing the role of Hamletdrugaya drama (“another drama”) of the narrator’s life – “Hamlet” |
dual images |
Gamlet (“Hamlet”) (1946) |
