The “author’s” voice in L. Petrushevskaya’s dramatic discourse

The author’s attitude, vision in a dramatic work is manifested mainly in the auxiliary text represented by stage directions that possess great potential. In women’s playwriting, the author’s inclusions reflect the atmosphere of the action showing the personality traits of the female playwright in the space of the work. The paper examines the “author’s” voice in L. Petrushevskaya’s playwriting, which is a model expressing the attitude of the female author to the depicted reality. The aim of the study is to determine the features of the linguistic means representing the “author’s” voice in L. Petrushevskaya’s dramatic discourse. The scientific novelty of the study lies in identifying the potential for the active expression of the author’s position in women’s playwriting (lexical richness of stage directions, certain syntactic features). The results of the study showed that the stage directions representing the author’s zone in L. Petrushevskaya’s playwriting are personality-oriented, possess the author’s intonation, reflect the peculiarities of a female playwright’s writing style; they manifest the subjectivity of the author, her attitude to the characters, to events, etc.