• Jan Kott (October 27, 1914 – December 22, 2001) was a Polish political activist, critic and theoretician of the theatre. A leading proponent of Stalinism...
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  • Alexander Kott (born 1973), Russian director Christoph Florentius Kött (1801–1873), German bishop Gary Kott (born 1947), American television writer Jan Kott (1914–2001)...
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    and say so on stage. Theseus fails to get the message. Also in 1964, Jan Kott offered his own views on the play. He saw the main themes of the play as...
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  • King Lear was prompted by an essay by Polish critic Jan Kott titled “King Lear or Endgame”, where Kott writes that Shakespeare's play is a tragedy of the...
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    exalting Lear, full of exquisite terror". The film drew on the ideas of Jan Kott, in particular his observation that King Lear was the precursor of absurdist...
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    of magic is significant, and critics disagree regarding what it means: Jan Kott considers it a disillusionment for both Prospero and for the author. E...
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  • film director. Keira Knightley (born 1985): English actress and model. Jan Kott (1914–2001): Polish theatre theoretician and critic. Stanley Kubrick (1928–1999):...
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    The Infiltrator Anton Doppelter Einsatz Hanno Tietz 1995–2002 Tatort Jan Jan Kott Christian three episodes 1996 Mona M. – Mit den Waffen einer Frau Mike...
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    Tudors were a divine solution. Critics including Paul Murray Kendall and Jan Kott, challenged the idea of the Tudor myth, and these newer ideas caused the...
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    the foresight to see that Lear's decision will prove disastrous. Writes Jan Kott, in Shakespeare Our Contemporary, The Fool does not follow any ideology...
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