Jan Kott is Dead, Long Live to the ˂“Hybrid”˃ Critic

Elizaveta Tsirina Fedorova; Jose Saiz Molina; Julia Haba Osca

doi:10.18778/2083-8530.24.11

Authors

Elizaveta Tsirina Fedorova The Shakespeare Institute & Foundation of Spain https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4380-5418
Jose Saiz Molina The Shakespeare Institute & Foundation of Spain https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0764-6317
Julia Haba Osca Department of English and German Philology. Faculty of Philology, Translation and Communication, University of Valencia (Spain) https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9493-4597

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18778/2083-8530.24.11

Keywords:

Jan Kott, William Shakespeare, translation, globalization, Shakespearean criticism, dramaturgy, hybrid teaching

Abstract

This article is a little tribute that a drama teacher, an editor and translator and a lecturer in English Literature would like to contribute to this Special Issue in Honour of Professor Dr Jan Kott, the most influential non-English speaking Shakespearean Critic in the second half of the 20th Century and early 21st Century. In the initial part of the essay we will overview Kott’s influence in the development of current Shakespearean tradition(s) in Spain from the early 1970s to the present day. In fact, his writings and critical views on William Shakespeare’s Works have been a decisive point in the development of new approaches to this playwright in some University Departments and Drama Schools in this country. The whole discussion will take the notion of hybrid and hybridization as the point of departure and we will draw some conclusions for discussing new critical thinking in Art (Science,) and Humanities.

Author Biographies

Elizaveta Tsirina Fedorova, The Shakespeare Institute & Foundation of Spain

Elizaveta Tsirina Fedorova is a young investigator born in Moscow and since early childhood, has had a direct contact with several Arts and Cultures. Her migrant background (Israel, Denmark, Belgium, Germany and Spain), has led her to an open knowledge of modern languages and drama and, at present, she combines her research studies in Creative Translation at the University of Valencia (Spain) with her Drama and Teaching at the Shakespeare Institute & Foundation of Spain.
Jose Saiz Molina, The Shakespeare Institute & Foundation of Spain

Jose Saiz Molina(PhD) has more than twenty years of experience in Digital Humanities, being Shakespeare, hybridization and the WordWideWeb his main research interest. He has been lecturing and guiding scholars and students as a textual critic, text encoder, concordance maker and literary translator at the University of Valencia (Spain),although his main work is performed within the editorial team of the Shakespeare Institute & Foundation of Spain which translates Shakespeare’s Works into Spanish in several art-forms and (mark-up) languages.
Julia Haba Osca, Department of English and German Philology. Faculty of Philology, Translation and Communication, University of Valencia (Spain)

Julia Haba Osca (PhD) is a Senior Lecturer at the English and German Philology Department at the Universitat de València (Spain) where she currently teaches Literary Criticism, Introduction to English Literature and Philosophical Texts in English Language. She has both a Bachelor in English Philology and Italian Philology and her thesis entitled: Poetry Workshop in the English as a Foreign Language subject: Towards the development of the Literary, Intercultural and Communicative Competences has allowed her to specialize in literature didactics, creative writing and in the “Education for the Sustainable Development and Global Citizenship.”

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