Abstract ◊ The article examines the experience of Shakespeare's legacy studies by V. A. Zhukovsky. At first sight in comparison with Karamzin's and his younger coevals' (Küchelbecker, Pushkin et al.) creative works Shakespeare had somehow weak influence on the original works by Zhukovsky. Meanwhile, his poetic experience prepared the Russian poetry for the work on translations of Shakespeare and had impact on the process of Shakespearisation and formation of Shakespearianism of the Russian literature at the turn of the XVIII–XIX centuries.
Keywords: Shakespeare, Zhukovsky, Shakespearisation, Shakespearianism, the cult of Shakespeare.
Zakharov Nikolay Vladimirovich — a Ph.D., the vice-director of the Institute of Fundamental and Applied Studies of
Moscow University for the Humanities, full-member of the International Academy of Science (IAS), academic secretary of the Shakespeare Committee of the RAS. Tel.: (495) 374-75-95. E-mail: nikoltine@yandex.ru
