Abstract
The article considers the history of outstanding works of classical drama in the history of world word art in the framework of the poetics of tragedy in the plays of W. Shakespeare "Antony and Cleopatra", M. Auezov "Enlik-Kebek". In the story-compositional line of the plays the stable social nature of the tragic conflicts, the fundamental nature of the heroes, the text analysis of the individual tasks of the characters was carried out.In the plays, scientific conclusions are drawn about the contradictions between historical figures and members of their social environment in accordance with the laws of the philosophy of life. W. Shakespeare's tragedies" Antony and Cleopatra", M. Auezov's" Enlik-Kebek " are consistently focused on the reality of feelings of love with each other, the the nature of contradictions caused by incompatibility with the household environment, the views of representatives of different social environment, dialogues, monologues in plays, etc. It is consistent with the texts of the plays that the injustice is finally revealed through the monologues of the main characters, and that the virtues flourish with the character of universal humanism. In the research, scientific-theoretical and methodological substantiations of basic research devoted to the poetics of tragedy were harmoniously used.