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Shakespeare, Our Contemporary

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W. W. Norton & Company, 1974 - Literary Criticism - 372 pages
This book is a provocative, original study of the major plays of Shakespeare; more than that, however, it is one of the few critical works to have strongly influenced theatrical productions. Peter 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  - Val - Goodreads

I continue to go to this book whenever I pick up Shakespeare. Plays by chapter. Not comprehensive of Shakespeare's works, but each chapter is a jewel. Read full review

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Seminal. Read full review

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Selected pages

Contents

MODERN
75
CONTRADICTIONS
179
TITANIA AND THE ASSS HEAD
213
SHAKESPEARES BITTER ARCADIA
237
PROSPEROS STAFF
293
SHAKESPEARECRUEL AND TRUE
345
SHAKESPEAREAN NOTEBOOK
355
SHAKESPEARE
367
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References from web pages

Shakespeare in Poland: Shakespeare Our Contemporary
World War II and The Communist Regime: Shakespeare Our Contemporary ... Shakespeare Our Contemporary was praised by the audience for whom it was intended: ...
internetshakespeare.uvic.ca/ Library/ Criticism/ shakespearein/ poland9.html

JSTOR: Shakespeare Our Contemporary
A colleague (how I detest that stuffy title) from one of the more literary disciplines spied my copy of Shakespeare Our Contemporary. "Any good?" he asked. ...
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Shakespeare, our contemporary by Jan Kott | librarything
All about Shakespeare, our contemporary by Jan Kott. librarything is a cataloging and social networking site for booklovers.
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Jan Kott and Jadwiga Kosicka - Last Words - Theater 32:3
When Shakespeare, Our Contemporary 2 reaches the reading public, I'll be almost eighty-five years old. My first book on Shakespeare came out more than three ...
muse.jhu.edu/ journals/ theater/ v032/ 32.3kott01.html

Reservation Shakespeare our contemporary / Jan Kott ; translated ...
Title : Shakespeare our contemporary / Jan Kott ; translated by Boleslaw Taborski ; preface by Peter Brook. Author : Kott, Jan. Last Located at : Goulburn ...
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Shakespeare's Globe :: Interview with Tony Howard
Shakespeare Our Contemporary certainly was inspirational, ... Shakespeare our Contemporary became amazingly controversial, really divisive. ...
www.shakespeares-globe.org/ buildingyourlibrary/ volumesthatiprize/ tonyhoward/

Roar of the Canon: Kott and Marowitz on Shakespeare
... Marowitz discusses the astonishing influence on theatre practice of Kott's 1964 Shakespeare, Our Contemporary. Marowitz identifies the individuality and ...
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Our Multicultural Shakespeare: Transcendence and/or Topicality ...
The aim of this panel is to transform Jan Kott’s famous assertion into a question: Shakespeare, Our Contemporary? The worldwide distribution of ...
www.shakespeare2006.net/ index.html?page=48643& pid=0

Jan Kott in Exile: Arden and Absolute Milan
Shakespeare Our Contemporary remains one of. the most widely read works by any Polish ..... Jan Kott’s Shakespeare Our Contemporary was ...
journals.cambridge.org/ article_S0266464X02000210

frontline: much ado about something: forum: the author beyond ...
There is that desire to have him both close at hand and also somehow mystically far away: Shakespeare not our contemporary, and Shakespeare our contemporary ...
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Bibliographic information

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TitleShakespeare, Our Contemporary
Doubleday Anchor book. A499
Norton library, N736
Issue 736 of The Norton Library
AuthorJ. Kott
Editionreprint
PublisherW. W. Norton & Company, 1974
ISBN0393007367, 9780393007367
Length372 pages
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Drama / Shakespeare
Literary Criticism / Shakespeare
  
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