Keyword: «drama»

The article discusses the concept of "author's style", its relationship with the term "idiostyle". The role of the author's style in literary works, in the drama is defined. The features of author’s style by Bernard Shaw as a playwright and creator of "Pygmalion" play are determined. The authors identify those features of the author's style by B. Shaw, which are invariant to translation works. They make analysis of two "Pygmalion" translations with the aim to identify the main features of the author's style representation in translation.

The paper examines linguistic and stylistic features of Shakespeare’s language in “Romeo and Juliet”, the most famous love story of all time. To better illustrate the beauty and innovative character of Shakespeare’s language, one scene from the play is chosen for close reading: Act 1, Scene 5. The practi-cal value of the material lies in step-by-step analysis of the lines that the characters utter, thus revealing the beauty, the nature of imagery, and the true meaning of the characters’ words and behavior.