Theatre image in fairy-tale comedies by Ludwig Tieck
The article is devoted to the early play-writing period of one of the greatest authors in the romanticism epoch in Germany - Johann Ludwig Tieck - a play writer, theatre man and theatre historian. Basing on the material of his comedies The Puss in the Boots, Prince Zerbino and The World Inside Out, the author of the article considers the rise of Tieck's theatre concept. It is based on the idea of the German stage reformation with orientation to the theatre of Shakespeare's epoch - from the design of the stage itself to play writing and acting. In the fairy-tale comedies under consideration the place and the reason for a conflict is theatre itself. The main features of the composition of Tieck's plays are revealed, and the ideological basis of his romantic theatre concept is formulated.