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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

Belarus 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

Rah-e-Sabz adaptation

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, London

Cradle of the World, The
(US movie)

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