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The Man who Makes Connections

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 January 2009

John Elsom
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IT IS A STRANGE and little-known fact that even scholars and critics can be characterized in terms of changing light bulbs. A classicist can change a light bulb, but the old one was essentially better. The modernist may change a light bulb, but only after the house has been completely rewired. In their respective contexts, most structuralists are able to change a light bulb, provided, since these processes are always two-way, that the light bulb doesn't change them first. But when Jan Kott changes a light bulb, he has the unfortunate knack of switching on the whole Christmas tree.

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Research Article
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New Theatre Quarterly , Volume 10 , Issue 40 , November 1994 , pp. 313 - 316
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1994

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References

1. Elsom, John, ed., Is Shakespeare Still Our Contemporary? (Routledge, 1989), p. 14–15.Google Scholar

2. Ibid., p. 16–17.

3. Kott, Jan, The Theater of Essence (Northwestern University Press, 1984), p. 30.Google Scholar

4. Kott, Jan, The Bottom Translation (Northwestern University Press, 1987), p. 2.Google Scholar

5. Jan Kott, , Shakespeare Our Contemporary (Methuen, 1965), p. 52.Google Scholar

6. Ibid, p. 48.

7. Ibid.

8. Elsom, , ed., op. cit., p. 14.Google Scholar

9. Kott, , Shakespeare Our Contemporary, p. 241–2.Google Scholar

10. Kott, , The Bottom Translation, p. 107–32.Google Scholar