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Author Kott, Jan.

Title Shakespeare our contemporary / by Jan Kott ; translated by Boleslaw Taborski.

Imprint New York : Norton, 1974.

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  828 S527YKOT    Check Shelf
Description xxi, 372 pages ; 20 cm
Series Norton library ; N736
Norton library ; N736.
Note Preface by Peter Brook.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Language Translation of Szkice o Szekspirze, originally published in Warsaw, 1964.
Contents Part one: tragedies -- The kings -- Hamlet of the mid-century -- Troilus and Cressida -- amazing and modern -- Macbeth or death-infected -- The two paradoxes of Othello -- King Lear or endgame -- Let Rome in Tiber melt -- Coriolanus or Shakespearean contradictions -- Part two: comedies -- Titania and the ass's head -- Shakespeare's bitter arcadia -- Prospero's staff -- Appendix -- Shakespeare -- cruel and true -- Shakespearean notebook -- Chronological table: Shakespeare and the world.
Summary "An original critical study of the major plays of Shakespeare."-- (Source of summary not specified)
Subject Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Dramatists, English -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Dramatists, English -- Criticism and interpretation.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJxx96qPfyhwWrJChP9kXd (OCoLC)fst00029048
Dramatists, English (OCoLC)fst00897581
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
Added Author Taborski, Bolesław, translator.
Brook, Peter, 1925-2022, writer of preface. https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJmxWbKRbPxBwfrpBJ3qQq
Added Title Szkice o Szekspirze. English
ISBN 9780393007367 (paperback)
0393007367 (paperback)
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