Jan Kott's Dramatic Commentary Of Shakespeare And It's Influence On Contemporary Shakespeare Plays

Jan Kott,the Polish dramatic critic,is one of the most prestigious Shakespeare critic in 20th century.He regards Shakespeare as the person live in the same time as us,interpreting and explaining modern people's experience over Shakespeare drama by the conversation with Shakespeare.The criticism methods of Jan Kott and some art views he puts forward produce great influence on stage production of a batch of modern drama directors.This paper mainly researches on Jan Kott's Shakespeare criticism in the following aspects.The introduction part introduces the life experience of Jan Kott,and tease out the process that Kott occupies in drama criticism and drama creation.Then it comprehensively sums up the research on Kott's Shakespeare criticism at home and abroad.The research material at home is relatively few,which mainly starts from the macroscopic perspective of Shakespeare criticism history and the philosophical connotation of the theme that Kott's Shakespeare criticism interprets.Compared with the research at home,the research abroad is relatively rich,while researchers hold different views over Kott's Shakespeare criticism.The first chapter introduces the theory background and main characters of Kott's Shakespeare criticism.As a man who lives and grows in Poland,what's more,a drama critic who occupies in Polish drama,Jan Kott is no doubt influenced by the local drama traditional of Poland,his interpretation perspective of Shakespeare's works has countless special relations with the spirit life of Polish.In the critic,Kott strengthens the presentation and images of Shakespeare's drama works,as well as the social situations which can be transferred into specific drama figures.His Shakespeare criticism has some speciality of the method of "symbolism aesthetic criticism",and appears the deep tends of pessimism at the same time,all of these methods make his criticisms have the characteristic of modernism.The second chapter interprets and analyzes the main contents of Kott's Shakespeare criticism from the angle of the core view of Kott's Shakespeare criticism and the drama construction theory that Kott extracted.By comparing and analyzing the historical play of Shakespeare,Kott finds that the background of characters is usually strikingly similar to their life experiences,therefore he comes up with the view of "Grand Mechanism of History".At the same time,Kott also finds the hidden motif in Shakespeare's drama works:it is about the decline and collapse of world order,that is to say,the great difference exists between the moral order and historical order.As for the aspect of drama theory,Kott finds the "mirror system" in Shakespeare's drama,which is a kind of drama structure skill bases on the literary creation technique of "Mobius strip" style.The third chapter selects the relevant works from several directors who declare to be influenced by Kott or have cooperated with Kott as the research objects,analyzing and commenting on the art concept contained in Kott's Shakespeare criticism,as well as the specific influence these concepts bring to the performance and stage construction of modem Shakespeare drama.In the end,the conclusion part sum up the characteristics of Kott's Shakespeare criticism,that is rooted into the local culture and its art experience,giving the drama criticism spirit of the time;at the time,being established in the nature of drama,it always combines the literary criticism with the operable stage construction aesthetics,therefore profoundly understand and dig out the unique drama technique of Shakespeare.