Jan Kott
Jan Kott (October 27, 1914 – December 22, 2001) was a Polish political activist, critic and theoretician of the theatre. A leading proponent of Stalinism in Poland for nearly a decade after the Soviet takeover, Kott renounced his Communist Party membership in 1957 following the anti-Stalinist Polish October of 1956. He defected to the United States in 1965. He is regarded as having considerable influence upon Western productions of Shakespeare in the second half of the 20th century.
Jan Kott | |
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| Born | October 27, 1914 Warsaw |
| Died | December 22, 2001 (aged 87) Santa Monica, California |
| Notable works | Shakespeare, Our Contemporary |
| Notable awards | Herder Prize (1964) |
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