Shakespeare Our ContemporaryPeter Brook and Charles Marowitz are among the many directors who have acknowledged their debt to Jan Kott, finding in his analogies between Shakespearean situations and those in modern life and drama the seeds of vital new stage-conceptions. Readers all over the world--Shakespeare Our Contemporary has been translated into nineteen languages since it appeared in 1961--have similarly found their responses to Shakespeare broadened and enriched. Mary McCarthy called the work the best, the most alive, radical book about Shakespeare in at least a generation. |
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User Review - rubyjand - LibraryThingShakespeare Our Contemporary by Jan Kott. 1964. Read in March 2009. This book is one of the most important ever written about Shakespeare. First published in Polish in the 1960's it brought a ... Read full review
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honestly it talks about Shakespeare what more can you ask. . .
Contents
THE KINGS | 3 |
HAMLET OF THE MIDCENTURY | 57 |
TROILUS AND CRESSIDAAMAZING | 75 |
MACBETH OR DEATHINFECTED | 85 |
THE TWO PARADOXES OF OTHELLO | 99 |
KING LEAR OR ENDGAME | 127 |
LET ROME IN TIBER MELT | 169 |
CORIOLANUS OR SHAKESPEAREAN | 179 |
TITANIA AND THE ASSS HEAD | 213 |
SHAKESPEARES BITTER ARCADIA | 237 |
PROSPEROS STAFF | 293 |
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| Title | Shakespeare Our Contemporary Norton library Norton library, N736 |
| Author | Jan Kott |
| Edition | reprint, revised |
| Publisher | W. W. Norton & Company, 1974 |
| ISBN | 0393007367, 9780393007367 |
| Length | 372 pages |
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