Khrabrova G. The peculiarities of the literary representation of gender discourse in W.Shakespeare's early poems

The thesis offers an algorithm for analyzing the gender-oriented aspects of the poetics of literary works, which is being tested and approved in the course of investigating the gender discourse of the Shakespearean Age. Gender studies approach enables the researcher to outline the role which the poet played in the formation of the modern views of gender. The author of "Venus and Adonis" rejects the allegoric representation of erotically marked scenes, which was characteristic of H.Roberts and G.Gascoigne, avoids moralization, typical of T.Lodge and R.Greene, as well as frivolous and grotesque portrayal, inherent in "low" literature. He poeticizes and aestheticizes the body, affirming the Renaissance ideas of physical love. The development of the gender themes in the poem "The Rape of Lucrece" is carried out in the direction of undermining the patriarchal canon, where Shakespeare demonstrates the danger of deforming gender identity of an individual and paves the way to the tragic representation of the conflicts, enrooted in the gender asymmetry.