The Cult of Shakespeare as a Socio-Cultural Phenomenon

Lukov Vl. A., Zakharov N. V.

Institute of Humanitarian Researches, Moscow University for the Humanities

Abstract

The present article is devoted to consideration of a key phenomenon in the evolution of the European civilization terminologically nominated as «The Cult of Shakespeare». The authors give the definition to this phenomenon and consider it as a «philological concept». Applying the thesaurus approach the authors come to a conclusion that since the XVIII century «the Cult of Shakespeare» had set the bases to a number of the all-European cultural phenomena that found their expression in literature, music, fine arts and cinema.

Language: russian

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Lukov Vl. A., Zakharov N. V.
The Cult of Shakespeare as a Socio-Cultural Phenomenon // Electronic periodical “Herald of the International Academy of Sciences. Russian Section”, 2008. Issue #1: 65—68