BIBLICAL ARCHETYPES IN WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE’STRAGEDY “KING LEAR”AS THE IMPLICIT REFERENCE TO THE HOLY SCRIPTURE:VERBALIZATION AND PECULIARITIES OF REPRODUCTION

Анотація

The article presents the Translation Studies analysis of William Shakespeare’s tragedy “King Lear” and
its fi ve Ukrainian translations done by Panteleimon Kulish, Panas Myrnyi, Maksym Rylskyi, Vasyl Barka
and Oleksandr Hriaznov. The attempt has been made to outline the Biblical archetypes in the source text and
to trace the level of their reproduction in the Ukrainian target texts. On the basis of the research conducted,
it has been assumed that by means of various allusions and themes parallel to the Biblical ones, the reader
of the tragedy encounters the Biblical archetypes of the Christ, Job, Devil, Cain and Abel. The author of the
article also scrutinizes how these archetypes are actualized in the text in question through various verbal
images and examines the level of their reproduction in the target texts.
Key words: Shakespeare, “King Lear”, translation, biblical archetypes, Bible, allusion.