As part of the ShakesPEERS Celebrating Jan Kochanowski and Poetry, the Polish Cultural Institute in London, in partnership with the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, will unveil a new statue of Renaissance Polish Poet and Shakespeare’s contemporary Jan Kochanowski in the sculpture garden at Anne Hathaway’s Cottage in Stratford-upon-Avon on Saturday 25 June 2022.
Much like Shakespeare for Britain, Jan Kochanowski came to be regarded as one of the greatest poets and playwrights of Poland. Charles S Kraszewski,Slavicist and translator, who had translated many Polish classics , among them works by Jan Kochanowski talks about the parallels between the great writers, both living in the same epoch.