Pre-romantic motives of surprise and fake in dramaturgy by N. V. Gogol (on the material of plays «Players», «Vladimir third degree»)

The article regards the connection of motives of surprise and fake in Gogol’ s plays with pre-romantic motives of surprise and fake, their typological and functional similarity. It also defines the individual author’ s reproach of Gogol’ in using pre-romantic motives of surprise and fake.