As well as the subjects interviewed in these pages, a sizeable cast of people helped behind the scenes during my travels, either making time to speak to me or pinning down people who would.
In Poland and Germany: Jerzy Limon, Robert Florczak and everyone at the Teatr Szekspirowski, Gdańsk; Tobias Döring, Werner Habicht, Dieter Mehl and Sabine Schülting at the Deutsche Shakespeare-Gesellschaft; Manfred Koltes, Susann Leine and Ulrike Müller-Harang in Weimar; Anke Hoffsten at the NS-Dokumentationszentrum in Munich; Lars Eidinger, Annika Frahm, Thomas Ostermeier, Volker Lösch and Marius von Mayenburg at the Schaubühne, Berlin; Stephan Dörschel and Maren Horn at the Heiner Müller archive, Akademie der Künste, Berlin; Mark Espiner, Maik Hamburger, Norbert Kentrup, Ramona Mosse and Philip Oltermann in Berlin.
In the US: Juliette Swenson at Anne Hathaway’s Cottage, Staunton; Ralph Cohen and Sarah Enloe at the American Shakespeare Center; Garland Scott and Georgianna Ziegler at the Folger; Michael Kahn at the Shakespeare Theatre Company, Washington DC; Marilyn Langbehn at Cal Shakes; Bill Eddelman in San Francisco; Daniel Ketcham at the Nevada County Historical Society; Pat Chesnut at the Searls Historical Library, Nevada City; Mike Hausberg and Darlene Gould Davies at the Old Globe; Mairi McLaughlin and Stewart Maclennan in LA.
In India: Nasreen Munni Kabir; Ramu Ramanathan; Tigmanshu Dhulia; Punam Sawhney at VB Pictures; Coomi Vevaina and students at Elphinstone College, Mumbai; Kunal Kapoor and Ankita at Prithvi Theatre; Shanta Gokhale, Sharat Katariya, Atul Kumar, Leo Mirani and Sunil Shanbag in Mumbai; staff at the National Film Archive of India, Pune; Anshuman Bhowick, Chandan Sen and Koushik Sen in Kolkata; Sukanta Chaudhuri and Ananda Lal at Jadavpur University, Kolkata; Samarjit Guha and Sujata Sen at the British Council in Kolkata; Amitava Roy and members of the Shakespeare Society, Eastern India; Bishnupriya Dutt and Sanjna Kapoor in Delhi; Neel Chaudhuri and Anirudh Nair at Tadpole Theatre; Poonam Trivedi and everyone at the Shakespeare Society of India.
In South Africa: Andrea Harris and David Smith; Chris Thurman; Colette Gordon; Annabell Lebethe and Malcom Purkey at the Market Theatre, Johannesburg; Marcus Mabusela and the members of Johannesburg Awakening Minds; participants in The Julius Caesar Project at Wits University, Johannesburg; staff and students at Mondeor High, Johannesburg; Lali Dangazele and Craig Higginson; Johan Cronje and the Sol Plaatje Educational Trust in Kimberley; Teneille Pillay and the family of Sonny Venkatrathnam; staff and students at Danville Park Girls’ School, Durban; Margie Coppen in Durban; Marthinus Basson, Roy Sargeant, Pieter-Dirk Uys and Laurence Wright in Cape Town; Nolubabalo Tongo-Cetywayo at the Robben Island Museum; staff and students at Vista Nova High School, Cape Town; staff and students at Chris Hani Secondary School in Khayelitsha.
In China, Taiwan and Hong Kong: Ashley Shen; Tania Branigan and Cecily Huang; Krista Wang at the Lin Zhaohua Theatre Studio; Qiuyun Wang; Guo Qi, Huang Ying, Xie Yuti and Emily Zeng in Beijing; Xiaoying Wang at the National Theatre of China; David Li and students at UIBE in Beijing; Gary Yang, Julia Zhou and staff at Donghua University, Shanghai; Lisa Xie and Nick Yu at the Shanghai Dramatic Arts Centre; Emilie Wang at the Shanghai Grand Theatre; Stan Lai and Vanessa Yeo at the Stan Lai Performance Workshop; Wu Hsing-Kuo and Ruei Yen at Contemporary Legend Theatre, Taipei; Beatrice Lei and everyone at the Asian Shakespeare Association; Jason Gleckman and the team at the Chinese Universities Shakespeare Festival; Rupert Chan, Matthew Gregory, Tang Shu-Wing and Hardy Tsoi in Hong Kong; Ceri Sherlock and students at the Hong Kong APA.
Most of all, deep and lasting thanks to friends, for allowing me to dematerialise for months at a stretch, then putting me back together when I returned: Kirstie Beaven and Luke Youngman; Rachel and Gregg Ellman; Susanne Hillen and Jonathan Buckley; Alice Ladenburg; Sara Mohr-Pietsch; Francesca Panetta; Elizabeth Prochaska and Duncan Clark; Rana Refahi and Robin Powell; Jane Wilkinson and Joe Staines; Lyndsey Winship. And to my family, who have done the usual plus a great deal more: Jen, Dave and Gemma (and brood); my grandmother, Joan Mays; and my parents, Sue and Peter, to whom this book is dedicated, with love.
Index
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A
Aankh ka Nasha (Hashr play)
Abd el-Ouahed ben Messaoud
Adams, Abigail
Adams, John
Adams, John Quincy
Adams, Joseph Quincy
Addison, Joseph
Adhya, Baishnava Charan
Afghanistan
African Americans
African National Congress (ANC)
Afrikaans
Afrikaners
Ahsan, Syed Mehdi Hasan
Akenside, Mark
Akhtar, Farhan
Alabama, United States
Alam Ara (Indian movie)
Alcott, Louisa May
Aldridge, Ira
Alexander, Neville
Alexander, Peter
Alexanderplatz, Berlin
Alfred Talkies, Mumbai
Alger, Horatio
All is True see Henry VIII
All’s Well That Ends Well
Alleyn, Edward
Amar Akbar Anthony (Indian movie)
American Company
American Notes (Dickens)
American Revolution (1775–1783)
American Shakespeare Center, Staunton
Amherst College, Massachusetts
Amritsar, Punjab
Anand, Dev
Andhra Pradesh, India
Andreu, Paul
‘Anglicists’
Anglo-Saxon
Anglo-Saxonism
Angoor see Comedy of Errors, The
Anna Amalia, Duchess of Saxe-Weimar
Anne Hathaway’s Cottage, Staunton
anti-Semitism
Antony and Cleopatra
apartheid
Apdusa (African People’s Democratic Union of South Africa)
Arabian Nights, The
Arabic
Argentina
Aristotle
Arkansas, United States
Armenia
L’Arrivée d’un train en gare de La Ciotat (Lumière movie)
As You Like It
Branagh’s film adaptation (2006)
Czinner’s film adaptation (1936)
Ashcroft, Peggy
Ashland, Oregon
Asian Shakespeare Association (ASA)
Astor Place Riot (New York, 1849)
Athenaeum
Athenäum
Atkinson, Brooks
Auburn, California
Australia
Austria
B
Bachchan, Amitabh
Bacon, Delia
Bacon, Francis
Bad Sleep Well, The see Hamlet
baixi (Chinese theatrical form)
Balboa Park, San Diego
Balivala, Khurshed Mehrvan
Baltimore, Maryland
de Balzac, Honoré
Banerjee, Mamata
Bangkok, Thailand
Bantu Education Act (South Africa, 1953)
Bantu peoples
Barber, C. L.
Barbican Centre, London
Bardolatry
Barnum, Phineas Taylor ‘P. T.’
Barrymore, John
Barthes, Roland
Barton, Anne
Barton, John
Bassano family
Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Battle of Alcazar, The (Peele play)
Baudelaire, Charles Pierre
Bauman, Zygmunt
Bay of Bengal
Bazm-e-Fani see Romeo and Juliet
BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation)
de Beaumont, Gustave
Beckett, Samuel
Beijing, China
Beijing opera see jingju
Bel
arus Free Theatre
Belgium
Bengal Presidency
Bengali
Benson, Frank
Berkeley, California
Berlin, Germany
Berlioz, Hector
Bernhardt, Sarah
Bertrand, Joachimus
Bestrafte Brudermord, Der see Hamlet
Betab, Narayan Prasad
Betterton, Thomas
Bhanumati Cittavilasa see Merchant of Venice, The
Bharata
Bhardwaj, Vishal
Bhatvadekar, Harishchandra Sakharam
Bhavabhuti
Bhramjalak Natak see Comedy of Errors, The
Bhranti Bilas see Comedy of Errors, The
Bhuli Nai Priya see Romeo and Juliet
Bible
Bieito, Calixto
Bierstadt, Albert
Biko, Steve
Bildungsroman
Birmingham, England
Bishopsgate, London
‘blackamoors’ see racism and race
blackface
Blackfriars Playhouse
London
Staunton
Blake, William
Blanke, John
Bloemfontein, Free State
Bloomington, Illinois
Blount, Edward
Bobby (Indian movie)
Boccaccio, Giovanni
Bochum, Germany
Bodleian Library, Oxford
Bodyguard (Indian movie)
Boer War (1899–1902)
Bohannan, Laura
Bohemia
Bolingbrook golf course, Romeoville
Bollywood
Bombastes Furioso (Rhodes play)
Bombay; see also Mumbai
Bombay theatre, Mumbai
Bond, Edward
Bonn, Germany
Book of Homage to Shakespeare, A (Gollancz)
Booth, Edwin
Booth, H.
Booth, John Wilkes
Booth, Junius Brutus
Booth Jr, Junius Brutus
Borck, Caspar Wilhelm von
Borthwick, John David
Boston, Massachusetts
Bosworth Field, Battle of (1485)
Botswana
Boyle, Danny
Boys from Syracuse, The see Comedy of Errors, The
Bradley, Andrew Cecil
Branagh, Kenneth
Brandl, Alois
Brando, Marlon
Brands, Henry William
Brecht, Bertolt
Bridger, Jim
Brink, André
Bristow, Emma
British Columbia, Canada
British Council
British Empire
British Library, London
British Museum, London
Broadway, New York
Broich, Margarita
Brooke, Gustavus V.
Brougham, John
Brown, Russell M.
Browne, Robert
Brunel, Isambard Kingdom
Brussels, Belgium
Brutus, Dennis
Bryan, George
Bryant, William Cullen
Buchanan, ‘Buck’
Buchenwald concentration camp
Buck, George
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Bullough, Geoffrey
Bulwer-Lytton, Edward
Buntman, Fran Lisa
Bunyan, John
Buotou buotou (Chinese play)
Burbage, Richard
Burgtheater, Vienna
burlesque adaptations
Burma
Burnett, Mark Thornton
Byrd, William
Byron, George Gordon
C
Calaveras County, California
Calcutta; see also Kolkata
Calcutta theatre
Calhern, Louis
California, United States
Californian Works Projects Administration
Cambridge University
Cameron, David
Canada
Canterbury Tales (Chaucer)
Canton see Guangzhou
Cantonese
Cao Wei Feng
Cape Colony
Cape Dutch
Cape Flats, Cape Town
Cape Town, Western Cape Province
Capitol, Washington DC
Capra, Frank
Cardenio (lost play)
Cardiff, Wales
Carlyle, Thomas
Carpenter, Francis
Carrier-Belleuse, Albert
Catharine and Petruchio (Garrick play) see Taming of the Shrew, The
Catherine II (the Great), Empress and Autocrat of All the Russias
Catholicism
Caxton, William
Cedar City, Utah
Censor Must Die (Thai documentary)
censorship
Central Park, New York
Chaka (Sesotho novel)
Chambers, Edmund Kerchever
Chan, Rupert
Chand, Munshi Ratan
Chandos portrait of Shakespeare
Chang, Jung
Chapman, George
Chapman acting family
Charleston, South Carolina
Charnock, Job
Chatterjee, Biswajit
Chatterjee, Soumitra
Chattopadhyay, Bankim Chandra
Chattopadhyay, Harindranath
Chattopadhyay, Ujjwal
Chaucer, Geoffrey
Chaudhuri, Neel
Chauncy, Elnathan
Chekhov, Anton
Chennai, Tamil Nadu
Chicago, Illinois
Chile
Chimerica (Kirkwood play)
China
China Central Television (CCTV)
China Railway Drama Company
Chinese Universities Shakespeare Festival
Chinese University of Hong Kong
Chor Bazaar, Mumbai
Chori Chori (Indian movie)
Chowringhee theatre, Kolkata
Chris Hani Secondary School, Cape Town
Christianity
Bible
Catholicism
Lutheranism
Mormonism
Protestantism
Puritanism
Church, Frederic Edwin
CIA (Central Intelligence Agency)
Cibber, Colley
Cincinnati, Ohio
Cinthio, Giraldi
Cliff, Nigel
Clive, Robert
Clueless (US movie)
Cobbett, William
Cocteau, Jean
Cohen, Ralph
Cold War
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
colonialism
Colorado, United States
Comedie of Errours, Ye
Comedy of Errors, The
Betab’s Gorakh Dhandha adaptation (1912)
Brink’s adaptation (1971)
Chand’s adaptation (1882)
Gulzar’s Angoor adaptation (1982)
Plaatje’s Setswana translation
Rodgers-Hart musical
Comité Shakespeare
commedia dell’arte
communism
Communist Party of China
Comödia von Josepho Juden von Venedig, Die see Merchant of Venice, The
Condell, Henry
Confucianism
Congress Party see Indian National Congress
Congreve, William
Connecticut, United States
Contarini, Gasparo
Cooke, C. B.
Cooke, George Frederick
Cooper, James Fenimore
Copenhagen, Denmark
copia (Renaissance concept)
Copland, Aaron
Coppola, Francis Ford
copyright
Coriolanus
Corneille, Pierre
Corpus Christi, Texas
Cotton, Seaborn
Covent Garden, Lon
don
Cradle of the World, The (US movie)
cricket
Croatia
Cromwell, Oliver
Crouch, Tim
Crowther, Bosley
Crystal Palace, London
Cultural Revolution, Chinese (1966–1976)
Cumberbatch, Benedict
Curtain theatre, London
Cushman, Charlotte
Cymbeline
Betab’s Meetha Zehar adaptation
at Blackfriars, Staunton
Mahajani’s adaptation (1879)
Parsi adaptation (1871)
Xiamen University of Technology staging
Cyprus
Czechoslovakia
D
Dada, Save
Dadasaheb Phalke Prize
Dallas World’s Fair (1936)
Daniels, Eddie
Dante Alighieri
Dante-Gesellschaft
Danzig see Gdańsk
Daoguang, Qing Emperor
Dari Persian
Das Kapital (Marx)
Datta, Sangeeta
Davenant, William
Davenport, Edward Loomis
Davidson, Levette J.
Davies, Andrew
Davies, Darlene Gould
Dawson, Giles E.
De Beers mine, Kimberley
De duplici copia verborum ac rerum (Erasmus)
Decameron (Boccaccio)
Defoe, Daniel
Dekker, Thomas
Delacroix, Ferdinand Victor Eugène
Delhi, India
Delhi Way, The (Ivory movie)
Delius, Emma
Democracy in America (Tocqueville)
Democratic Party
Deng Xiaoping
Denmark
Derozio, Henry Louis Vivian
Derrida, Jacques
Desert Island Discs (BBC radio programme)
Dessau, Germany
Deutschbein, Max
Deutsche Dante-Gesellschaft
Deutsche Goethe-Gesellschaft
Deutsche Oper, Berlin
Deutsche Shakespeare-Gesellschaft
Deutsches Theater, Berlin
Devereux, Robert, 2nd Earl of Essex
Dias, Bartolomeu
Dickens, Charles
Dietrich, Marlene
Dil Chahta Hai (Indian movie)
Dil Farosh see Merchant of Venice, The
Dingake, Michael
Dingelstedt, Franz von
Dintshontsho tsa bo-Juliuse Kesara see Julius Caesar
Diphosho-phosho see Comedy of Errors, The
Disney
Distiller, Natasha
Diwali
Dixon, W. Hepworth
Do Dooni Char see Comedy of Errors, The
Dobbs, Michael