Аннотация:The similarity of discourse between tragedy and comedy allows the latter to borrow some ofthe most valuable “tragic” techniques. Such borrowing may play the role of a parody, but therole of reception in the formation of dramatic action is no less important. Thus, the sequential playback of the elements of tragic dramaturgy becomes one of the principles of dramaticplotting in comedy (although structural units – “links” of dramatic plotting, proposed fortragedy by Mikhail L. Gasparov – play a different role in comedy).