The monograph is devoted to the study of formal and content categories of time and space in a dramatic work as genre and plot-forming categories of artistic discourse. The spatio-temporal continuum of the drama of the turn of the XX-XXI centuries is characterized by the transformation of genre features. Texts often become non-staged, intended only for reading; the idea of the author and the character changes. Such changes in the specifics of dramaturgical genres are primarily associated with a change in the classical notion of the unity of time and space in plays. In this aspect, the most significant in the modern literary study is a versatile comprehension of the space-time continuum in modern works (in particular, in plays) as a way of reflecting the worldview of a modern playwright, which, in turn, determines the process of formation of the personality of a modern man.