Head of Poland's Shakespeare theater, Jerzy Limon, dies

Jerzy Limon, a Polish acemic who was hored by Queen Elizabeth II for creating and directing a Shakespeare ater and festival in Poland, has died of COVID-19. He was 70.

Magdalena Hajdysz, a spokeswoman for Gdansk Shakespeare ater, said Limon died at a hospital in Gdansk in rrn Poland.

Limon was a professor, a translator and writer specializing in Shakespeare and Elizabethan ater. He taught at Gdansk University and, as visitor, at New York’s Hunter College, Washington’s Shakespeare Institute and at University of Delaware and University of Coloro.

He was creator of Gdansk Shakespeare ater, a replica of an Elizabethan-era ater which opened in 2014. Britain's Prince Charles and Poland’s Oscar-winning movie director Andrzej Wajda were patrons of project, and Prince William and his wife Kate, Duchess of Cambridge, took a tour of ater with Limon in 2017.

Actors from around world std Shakespeare’s plays and those by his contemporaries at ater, and an annual festival was launched in 2017.

In 2014, Limon was me an Officer of Most Excellent Order of British Empire.