CHARACTER OF MOCKER AND IRONY AS A WORLDVIEW IN RUSSIAN DRAMA FROM CHATDKY TILL OUR TIME
The article describes the evolution of the type of hero-mocker from Chatsky to heroes of L. Ulitskaya and N. Kolyada. The basis of mockery is the irony as a certain way of attitudes toward the world. Gradually, irony cease to be the property of the individual character and merges into the author's discourse and mocker type disappears from the drama