The transformation of female images in the dramaturgy of the 20th century by the example of A. Simukov's plays

The purpose of the study is to show how the female image has changed in the drama of the 20th century on the example of the work of the Soviet playwright, screenwriter of animated films and motion pictures, teacher of the Gorky Literary Institute and literary teacher A. Vampilov A. Simukov, whose years of creativity span more than half a century. In the article, through a system of end-to-end and archetypal images, a historical and literary excursion is conducted, revealing the prerequisites for creating the image of a new woman in the post-revolutionary period and its subsequent development. Special attention is paid to the author's style of A. Simukov and his contribution to the development of female images in Soviet drama. The scientific novelty of the study lies in the fact that for the first time A. Simukov's plays of different years devoted to the women's issue were comprehensively studied, and it is open to the reader that the playwright, starting with the first works, placed a demiurgic heroine in the space of comedy and tried to humanize her. The results of the study show that A. Simukov reflected in his work the changes that occurred in connection with the women's issue in the public consciousness, and in the psychologization of images he was in many ways the forerunner of the new wave playwrights.