Shakespeare our Contemporary Author:Jan Kott, Translated by Boleslaw Taborski "... I feel that Kott will prove to be as influential as Goethe. Shakespearean criticism until now has been unable to shake off the romantic view of the tragic hero in Shakespeare .. Kott offers us a Hamlet and a Lear, a Richard of Gloucester and a Macbeth, who are beyond doubt not anti-romantic or post-romantic, but something new and different.... more »" -- Oswald LeWinter, The Nation
... because Kott writes with theatrical flair, because he startles, alarms, and stimulates us, his admirably translated book should be read by everyone to whom Shakespeare is a living writer rather than a schoolman's text or a figurehead." -- Harold Clurman, The New York Times Book Review
"The best, the most alive, radical book about Shakespeare in at least a generation. Makes Anglo-Saxon Shakespeare criticism of the last 25 years look very smug and stuffy." - Mary McCarthy« less