Функция обращений к творчеству предшественников и младших современников Шекспира в романе Донны Тартт «Тайная история» (1992)

The article analyzes the modern University novel “Secret History” (1992) by the American writer Donna Tart. Her works are always interesting, as for a mass reader and so for professionals with a University education, because in addition to exciting and detective developing of the plot they reflect the great erudition of the author and allow to enter into the work and linked to its events the facts of the cultural life of remote eras. These echoes are analyzed through the changing literary preferences of the novel's central character, Richard Pipen, as his consciousness matures. The University environment brings a hick from the fascination with Edgar Allan Poe to the understanding of T. S. Eliot's works. The main attention is paid to the development of meanings, which are sometimes designated by the author of the novel only by the name of the playwright or by a very wrong interpretation of the facts of their biography or creativity by Richard Papen. At the same time, the degree of semantic distortion can be revealed only to those who are familiar with the material that interprets the character of the novel. That is why special emphasis is placed on those references that make the author of the novel to the works of predecessors and younger contemporaries of Shakespeare, including Christopher Marlow, John Webster, Thomas Middleton, Cyril Turner and John Ford. The analysis of literary images from the works of these authors reveals additional meanings that they bring to the text of the novel. The text of the author’s report at the First all-Russian scientific conference “Christopher Marlow and his work in Russian and World culture: an interdisciplinary view”, which was held in Moscow on June 22–23, 2018.