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Shakespeare Our Contemporary Jan Kott, William Shakepseare
Publisher: Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.

From The Independent on March 14:. He rejects all appearances, of law, justice, moral order. Part of the fascination here is the chance to see an author's private marginalia. Shakespearean Performance History Course Materials Repository Lesson Plan. As foreign news coverage becomes unavoidable, Shakespeare becomes our contemporary once again. €�Pound's Cantos, Jan Kott's Shakespeare Our Contemporary and Balzac's Lost Illusions are all still in the stacks, at reasonable prices,” he writes. I don't really know where to begin with that one. Unlike most of our contemporary love stories, Shakespeare's does not end with the lovers vow of commitment to one another. Shakespeare isn't even I assume our good author hasn't cracked open that “single terrible quarto” of Pericles lately? Apparently “nothing in literature” — in any language, of any period — speaks more directly to the contemporary metropolitan experience than Shakespeare (why bother writing anymore: Mr Bard has already said it all, and so much better). He sees brute force, cruelty and lust. It comes because of the stupidity of their parents; and in Shakespeare's plays most parents, especially fathers of daughters, and incredibly stupid. The Fool does not follow any ideology. Here are a couple of examples; I'm sure there will be others as events develop. Writes Jan Kott, in Shakespeare Our Contemporary,. Jann Kott, Shakespeare our Contemporary (Brook's Lear).