The Magic of the Theater: Remembering Professor Jerzy Limon (1950-2021)
Jacek Fabiszak
fabiszak@amu.edu.plAdam Mickiewicz University in Poznań (Poland)
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3369-091X
Małgorzata Grzegorzewska
University of Warsaw (Poland)
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0194-2919
Abstract
Professor Jerzy Limon was a world-renowned scholar, expert on Shakespeare and English literature, as well as theater theorist. He was also a writer and translator. His professional career is linked with Gdańsk: he taught English literature and theatre at the University of Gdańsk; it was in Gdańsk that he had the Gdańsk Shakespeare Theatre built in the place where the Fencing School, housing an Elizabethan stage, once stood. Jerzy Limon created and supervised the Gdańsk Shakespeare Festival for over 20 years, which presented productions from all over the world.
Keywords:
Jerzy Limon, Shakespeare studies, theater studies, Gdańsk Shakespeare Theater, Gdańsk Shakespeare FestivalReferences
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Jacek Fabiszakfabiszak@amu.edu.pl
Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań Poland
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3369-091X
Jacek Fabiszak teaches cultural history, theory, theatre history, and Shakespeare at the Faculty of English, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland. He has published on English Renaissance theater and drama and their stage, televisual and filmic transpositions (Polish Televised Shakespeares). He also applied linguistic and sociological tools in the analysis of Shakespearean drama (Shakespeare’s Drama of Social Roles). He co-authored Szekspir. Leksykon [Shakespeare. A lexicon], co-edited Czytanie Szekspira [Reading Shakespeare] and wrote on Christopher Marlowe, both on his plays (focusing on imagery) and their screen versions (especially Edward II). He is head of the Department of Studies in Culture at the Faculty of English, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań.
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Małgorzata GrzegorzewskaUniversity of Warsaw Poland
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0194-2919
Małgorzata Grzegorzewska is Professor of English Literature in the Institute of English Studies, University of Warsaw, Poland. She has published extensively on the Metaphysical Poets and Shakespeare (her three books in Polish were devoted to the discussion of Shakespeare’s tragedies of revenge, the theological aspects of Shakespeare’s drama, and the connections between metaphysical aspects of ancient tragedy and Shakespeare's plays), as well as the connections between literature and philosophy (i.e. George Herbert and Post-phenomenology: A Gift for Our Times (Frankfurt am Mein: Peter Lang, 2016)).
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