Shakespeare and Poland , a two-week festival examining Shakespeare s impact on Polish culture, featuring theatre, film, illustration and music, began at London’s Globe Theatre on Wednesday 26 June.

The event – organised by the Polish Institute in London and the Embassy of Poland – features works by Polish playwrights Stanislaw Wyspianski and Jan Kochanowski, and marks the 150th anniversary of the former s birth, according to polandin.com. Education director at Shakespeare’s Globe Patrick Spottiswoode said the event will offer a Polish perspective on Shakespeare and an opportunity to understand interpretations of his work through translation.

Also included will be a performance of Kochanowski s “Dismissal of the Greek Envoys” and “Laments”, which Ireland s Nobel Prize-winning poet Seamus Heaney has called Poland’s answer to the Shakespearean Sonnets.

The Globe Theatre will perform extracts of Wyspianski s “Hamlet Study” (1904) on 4 July, and also premiere his one-act play “The Death of Ophelia” (1905). Meanwhile an award-winning show by Wroclaw troupe Song of the Goat Theatre, puts tragedy King Lear to music.