PLAYS BY BORIS ZAYTSEV IN RUSSIAN DRAMA OF THE EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY

The beginning of the 20th century is the heyday of Russian dramatic art. Moscow and St. Petersburg became a meeting place for a considerable amount of artistic talent that allowed, based on the preceding theatrical tradition, creating outstanding works of theatrical art. The distinguishing feature of the poetics of the new Russian drama was plot collision, that does not derive from external events but from intentionally occasional, impulsive emotional movements of the characters. The article reviews dramas of Boris Zaytsev, written in the first half of the 20th century. For the plays of that period is typical impressionism, associative composition, weakness of the plot. Their content is characterized by tense psychologism, the dynamics of emotional experience and philosophizing. Key themes developed in dramas become the theme of redemption by love, search for spiritual wholeness and overcoming of existential conflict the heroes are faced with.