Kott, an emigre professor and Shakespeare scholar who came to the United States from Poland in 1966, regards the subjects of his essays from an atypical perspective of an outsider but also of an intellectual...czytaj dalej
The title essay in The Gender of Rosalind offers a snapshot of Kott's current thinking as it traces the complexities within -- and implied by -- As You Like It's major female character. In Head for Maidenhead...czytaj dalej
Still Alive recounts the perilous odyssey of a renowned man of letters through the endless political crises of Eastern Europe in the mid-twentieth-century. Jan Kott - Polish essayist and theater critic, author...czytaj dalej