Jan Kott
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Jan Kott (1914 - 2001) was a well-known Polish critic and theoretician of the theatre.
Starting in 1966, he lived in the United States and lectured at Yale and Berkeley universities. He authored more than 30 books of which Shakespeare Our Contemporary (1965) became the most influential.
A generation of theatre directors, including Peter Brook, took it as their cue to stage Shakespeare's plays in modern settings.
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