The Bottom Translation: Marlowe and Shakespeare and the Carnival Tradition - Hardcover

Kott, Jan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0810107376 ISBN 13: 9780810107373

Publisher: Northwestern University Press, 1987

Synopsis

The Bottom Translation represents the first critical attempt at applying the ideas and methods of the great Russian critic, Mikhail Bakhtin, to the works of Shakespeare and other Elizabethans. Professor Kott uncovers the cultural and mythopoetic traditions underlying A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Tempest, Dr. Faustus, and other plays. His method draws him to interpret these works in the light of the carnival and popular tradition as it was set forth by Bakhtin. The Bottom Translation breaks new ground in critical thinking and theatrical vision and is an invaluable source of new ideas and perspectives. Included in this volume is also an extraordinary essay on Kurosawa's "Ran" in which the Japanese filmmaker recreates King Lear.

About this title

About the Author:

Jan Kott, (1914-2001) born in Warsaw, was a theater critic and theorist. 

Language Notes:

Text: English, Polish (translation)

About this edition

• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Publication date: 1987
• ISBN 10: 0810107376
• ISBN 13: 9780810107373
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 165