Volume 3, Number 3 · September 24, 1964
The Shakespearian Rag
By Frank Kermode
Shakespeare Our Contemporary
by Jan Kott, Translated from the Polish by Boleslaw Taborski, with an Introduction by Martin Esslin
Doubleday, 241 pp., $4.50
A year or so ago, the name of Jan Kott began to appear in English theater programs. Peter Hall quoted liberally from Kott in his notes on the Stratford version of the early history plays of Shakespeare; and Peter Brook's Lear, seen not long ago in New York, was avowedly indebted to Kott's essay on the play.
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