Drama theory is a private area of ​ ​ artistic culture, however, at a turning point from the 18th to the 19th centuries, it reflected the revolutionary nature of the era. The great event that sealed the entire social and spiritual life of European society was the bourgeois revolution of the late XVIII century. in France. The drama associated with the breaking of the centuries-old social order, the tragic events that shook not only France, but also the whole of Europe, led to a special interest in the form of art that, as it seemed, could most fully reflect the nature of time. Writers and critics, therefore, naturally turned to the question of what means could dramatic art express the fullness of the processes that took place in reality.