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Jan Kott
American critic and scholar
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interpretation of Shakespeare’s works
- In William Shakespeare: New interpretive approaches
Jan Kott, writing in the disillusioning aftermath of World War II and from an eastern European perspective, reshaped Shakespeare as a dramatist of the absurd, skeptical, ridiculing, and antiauthoritarian. Kott’s deeply ironic view of the political process impressed filmmakers and theatre directors such as Peter…
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Polish literature
- In Polish literature: New trends in poetry and drama
…Jan Błoński, Andrzej Kijowski, and Jan Kott, who immigrated to the United States and whose Szkice o Szekspirze (1961; Shakespeare, Our Contemporary) was widely translated and discussed. Leopold Tyrmand, a successful novelist, also immigrated to the United States, where he published a series of essays highly critical of communism.
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