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Shakespeare Our Contemporary Jan Kott, William Shakepseare
Publisher: Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.

The book I go back to again and again is Jan Kott's Shakespeare Our Contemporary. How we understand our past determines how we recognise and react to our contemporary world. In 1965 Polish critic Jan Kott published a book, Shakespeare Our Contemporary, which became one of the most influential works of literary criticism of its time. If Shakespeare were our contemporary, he would likely find himself embroiled in a lawsuit for copyright infringement with the chronicler Hollinshed, whose prose the playwright rather openly pillaged. Our culture, our laws and our technologies are all grappling these days with the meaning of intellectual property and the boundaries between improving upon past innovations, and misappropriating them. This interpretation of the play also serves as an educational platform for understanding Shakespeare in our contemporary world. Shakespeare's works provide rich material informing the ideological conflict at the heart of the modern world. The title of the influential book on the interpretation of the plays in your time has been Shakespeare Our Contemporary by Jan Kott, but I blush to remember it was first published as far back as 1961. Shakespearean Performance History Course Materials Repository Lesson Plan. If only it had taken the bull by the horns. Jann Kott, Shakespeare our Contemporary (Brook's Lear). The motivation for Williams' production was Jan Kott's essay "Shakespeare's Bitter Arcadia" in his Shakespeare Our Contemporary (1964). Barber, who is famous for his book Shakespeare's Festive Comedy, and Jan Kott, Polish poet and critical essayist who merged Marxism and Existentialism in Shakespeare, Our Contemporary. Why not employ the Jan Kott, Shakespeare Our Contemporary approach? Plays and their cinematic adaptations, we will consider whether (and how) the storytelling is aided, or inhibited, by the conditions of filmmaking—and indeed how Shakespeare himself has become our contemporary. In advance of the Zócalo event .