The article deals with the issues of the development of major trends in the modern domestic and foreign translation studies in the field of literary translation, which are the basis for the original author’s methodology of the comparative analysis of the original and the translated texts based on the thematic stratification of the text.

The article deals with the means of portraying the image of a character in drama works through the prism of the contents and language means of various levelsin the verbal part of Julius Caesar in the play by B. Shaw “Caesar and Cleopatra”. The empirical material is studiedin a wide variety of the vertical context.

The article deals with the means of portraying the image of a character compared through the prism of content aspects and linguistic devices of various levels. The analysis is based on the empiric material of the novel by a modern English writer Rosamunde Pilcher “The Shell Seekers” in the original version and Russian translation.