• 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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    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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  • 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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    the Dead 23 (English translation from the 1820 edition of William Tooke; Jan Kott, The Eating of the Gods (Northwestern University Press, 1987), pp. 95–97...
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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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    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 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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    v t e Herder Prize laureates 1964–1970 1964: Oto Bihalji-Merin Jan Kott Stanisław Lorentz Lucijan Marija Škerjanc 1965: Tudor Arghezi Manolis Hatzidakis...
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  • Director. The Magic Theatre originated in 1967 when John Lion, a student of Jan Kott at the University of California, directed a production of Eugène Ionesco's...
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    Roman Jakobson. His expulsion from the Communist party was described by Jan Trefulka in his novella Pršelo jim štěstí (Luck Rained on Them, 1962). Kundera...
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    in defence of the play. One such scholar was Jan Kott. Speaking of its apparent gratuitous violence, Kott argued that Titus Andronicus is by no means the...
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    v t e Herder Prize laureates 1964–1970 1964: Oto Bihalji-Merin Jan Kott Stanisław Lorentz Lucijan Marija Škerjanc 1965: Tudor Arghezi Manolis Hatzidakis...
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    v t e Herder Prize laureates 1964–1970 1964: Oto Bihalji-Merin Jan Kott Stanisław Lorentz Lucijan Marija Škerjanc 1965: Tudor Arghezi Manolis Hatzidakis...
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  • Robert Kalfin Helena Kaut-Howson Elia Kazan Patrick Kinmonth Jim Knipple Jan Kott Wayne Lamb Tina Landau Helen Langworthy (1899 –1991) James Lapine Charles...
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  • Gerhard Heilfurth (1909–2006) of  Germany. Other 1969 nominators included Jan Kott (1914–2001) of  Poland, Wolfgang Clemen (1909–1990) of  Germany, Martin...
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    jurors. Piero Bigongiari (Italy) J. P. Clark (Nigeria) Frank Kermode (UK) Jan Kott (US) Juan Marichal (US) Gaëtan Picon (France) A. K. Ramanujan (India/US)...
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    v t e Herder Prize laureates 1964–1970 1964: Oto Bihalji-Merin Jan Kott Stanisław Lorentz Lucijan Marija Škerjanc 1965: Tudor Arghezi Manolis Hatzidakis...
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    v t e Herder Prize laureates 1964–1970 1964: Oto Bihalji-Merin Jan Kott Stanisław Lorentz Lucijan Marija Škerjanc 1965: Tudor Arghezi Manolis Hatzidakis...
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    v t e Herder Prize laureates 1964–1970 1964: Oto Bihalji-Merin Jan Kott Stanisław Lorentz Lucijan Marija Škerjanc 1965: Tudor Arghezi Manolis Hatzidakis...
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    Kreuzer (1927–2004) Martin Price (1920–2010) Wolfgang Clemen (1909–1990) Jan Kott (1914–2001) Christopher Ricks (born 1933) 10 Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986)...
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    Sovjet-Unie. De Bezige Bij, Antwerpen, 2014, ISBN 978-90-8542-571-7, translated by Jan Robert Braat. (German) Secondhand-Zeit. Leben auf den Trümmern des Sozialismus...
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    Rational Dictionary, 1980). His daughter Lidya Steinhaus was married to Jan Kott. Freiling's axiom of symmetry One-seventh area triangle Johnson–Trotter...
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    Kraków, 2 lutego 2006". Instytut Pamięci Narodowej. Retrieved 1 June 2011. Jan Kott, Still Alive: An Autobiographical Essay, p.172-173. Yale University Press...
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    v t e Herder Prize laureates 1964–1970 1964: Oto Bihalji-Merin Jan Kott Stanisław Lorentz Lucijan Marija Škerjanc 1965: Tudor Arghezi Manolis Hatzidakis...
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    v t e Herder Prize laureates 1964–1970 1964: Oto Bihalji-Merin Jan Kott Stanisław Lorentz Lucijan Marija Škerjanc 1965: Tudor Arghezi Manolis Hatzidakis...
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    pseudonym "Teofil" was inspired by Teofil Grodzicki, a fictional character from Jan Parandowski's novel entitled The Sky in Flames. He cooperated with Kazimierz...
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