Jan Kott is a contemporary Polish theater critic .
This deliberate foreshadowing of a new cycle of treachery and violence at the end of the film recasts Shakespeare 's story as a closed circuit of action by suggesting that the tragedy will be repeated ad infinitum—and this grim overdetermination of events seems to demonstrate what Polish theater critic Jan Kott called `` the Great Mechanism '' in Shakespeare 's history plays .
Macbeth -LRB-1971 film-RRB-