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He sights at Greek tragedy...along the smoking chimneys of Auschwitz...No twentieth-century [critic] could come closer to making Sophocles a contemporary. -- Time

"He sights at Greek tragedy...along the smoking chimneys of Auschwitz...No twentieth-century [critic] could come closer to making Sophocles a contemporary. -- ""Time"""

He sights at Greek tragedy...along the smoking chimneys of Auschwitz...No twentieth-century [critic] could come closer to making Sophocles a contemporary. -- ""Time""

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Jan Kott, (1914-2001) was a Polish American theater critic and an expert on Shakespeare whose theories influenced some of the most innovative of modern theater directors. Born in Warsaw, he studied at the universities of Warsaw, Paris, and Lodz. Kott returned to Poland shortly before World War II and was drafted into the Polish army. Later he took part in the underground resistance against the Nazi occupation. After teaching Polish literary history at the University of Warsaw and being a visiting professor at Yale, Kott lost his Warsaw post on political grounds. He was granted asylum in the United States in 1969, by which time he had become known in Europe for his writings about Shakespeare. He taught courses in drama, English, and literature at the State University of New York at Stony Brook from 1969 to 1983, when he retired. Boles?aw Taborski (1927-2010) was a Polish émigré broadcaster, translator, critic, author, and poet. He was born in Torun, Poland, and took part in the Warsaw uprising as a member of the Home Army resistance against Nazi Germany. Liberated from a German prisoner of war camp, he settled in Britain, where he took a degree in English literature and theater studies at Bristol University. Between 1959 and 1989 he worked as an editor and presenter at the BBC World Service. Taborski lectured and wrote in English and Polish. He translated Graham Greene's The Power and the Glory and the poems of Robert Graves and Robert Lowell into Polish. He also translated Polish studies of Shakespeare and Vladimir Mayakovsky into English. One of his notable achievements was translating and editing the collected plays of Karol Wojty?a, the future Pope John Paul II. During his lifetime Taborski published eighteen volumes of poetry and six collections of his work, winning prizes in England, the United States, and Poland. Edward J. Czerwinski (1929-2005) was a specialist in Slavic literature and culture and held two doctorates, one in English and American literature from Emory University and one in Russian and Polish literature from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He began his teaching career in 1957 at the Georgia Institute of Technology and ended it as a full professor of Slavic languages and literature at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, where he taught from 1979 to 1993. As founder and director of the Slavic Cultural Center in Port Jefferson, New York, Czerwinski introduced many important Eastern European artists to American audiences, presenting theater, dance, concerts, readings, and exhibitions by such artists as Witold Gombrowicz, Ivan Klíma, Jószef Szajna, and Jerzy Grotowski. He wrote and published many articles and books. Fluent in Polish, Russian, Croatian, and Czech, he also translated many Eastern European and Russian works into English. Claire Bloom gained international fame in 1951 with her screen debut in Charles Chaplin's motion picture Limelight. Among her many memorable films are Richard III, The Haunting, Look Back in Anger, and A Doll's House. Stefan Rudnicki is a Grammy-winning audiobook producer and a multi-award-winning narrator, named one of AudioFile's Golden Voices.

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