Jan Kott
Polish political activist, critic and theoretician of the theatre / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jan Kott (October 27, 1914 ā December 22, 2001) was a Polish political activist, critic and theoretician of the theatre.[1] A leading proponent of Stalinism in Poland for nearly a decade after the Soviet takeover, Kott renounced his Communist Party membership in 1957 following the anti-Stalinist Polish October of 1956. He defected to the United States in 1965.[2][3] He is regarded as having considerable influence upon Western productions of Shakespeare in the second half of the 20th century.[4]
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Jan Kott | |
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Born | (1914-10-27)October 27, 1914 Warsaw |
Died | December 22, 2001(2001-12-22) (aged 87) Santa Monica, California |
Notable works | Shakespeare, Our Contemporary |
Notable awards | Herder Prize (1964) |
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