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Shakespeare for Freedom Ewan Fernie Index More Information Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-13085-2 — Shakespeare for Freedom Ewan Fernie Index More Information Index Actresses’ Franchise League, 140 Booth, John Wilkes, 51, 220, 224–7, 272 Adorno, Theodor, 52, 244, 255, 258, 264, 272 Booth, Junius Brutus, 224 AFL. See Actresses’ Franchise League Bordieu, Pierre, 166 Akenside, Mark, 152 Boswell, James, 47, 143–6, 274 Alexander Shakespeare. See Robben Island Boyce, Frank Cottrell, 17 Shakespeare Boyle, Danny, 16 alter ego, as a term, 4, 86 Bradlaugh, Charles, 139 Althusser, Louis, 165 Bradley, A. C., 52, 66, 167, 173, 177, 184, 185–6, Archenholz, Johann Wilhelm von, 148, 195 193, 204 arts, 8–10 Bradley, F. H., 167 Astor Place, 51, 220, 222, 223, 227, 241 Bradshaw, Graham, 205 Austria Bramwich, John, 131 Habsburgs, 27–8, 159 Branagh, Kenneth, 10–11, 180 Brandes, Georg, 203, 234, 235, 237, 239 Banks, George Linnaeus, 137 Bridges, Robert, 221 bardolatry, 48, 127, 160, 218, 239, 271 Brixton Barker, Francis, 168 race riots, 12, 13 Barker, Harley Granville, 140 Brooke, Arthur, 81, 93 Barker, Howard, 78–9, 173, 178, 185 Brown, John Russell, 51 Bate, Jonathan, 1, 17–19, 20, 40, 74, 221, 231, Brunel, Isambard Kingdom, 10–11 260, 261 Buber, Martin, 207 Bates, Jennifer Ann, 193, 194 Buchanan, George, 127 Belinsky, Vissarion, 158 Budapest, 24, 45, 46, 161 Belsey, Catherine, 168, 174 National Széchényi Library, 24, 29 Benjamin, Walter, 49–50 Burkhardt, Jacob, 167 Berlioz, Hector, 157 Burney, Fanny Beutler, Ernst, 151 Evelina, 114–15 Birmingham Butler, Judith, 169 Birmingham Freethinkers, 139 Edgbaston, 28 Carey, John, 8–10, 166, 260 Shakespeare Memorial Library, Library of Carlson, Susan, 140 Birmingham, 24, 28 Catherine II, Empress of Russia, 157, 158 Small Heath, 28 Cavell, Stanley, 231 Bloom, Harold, 11, 52, 163–4, 175, 176, 177, 178, Césaire, Aimé, 11 180, 181, 186, 208, 246 Chalk Farm, 138 Bonaparte, Napoleon, 75, 79, 201 Characters, 43–4, 56–7, 59–60, 183–4, 208, Bond, Edward, 172 209, 214, 217, 274 Booth, Edwin, 226 Adonis, 262, 266, 267 319 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-13085-2 — Shakespeare for Freedom Ewan Fernie Index More Information 320 index Characters (cont.) Leontes, 261 Albany, 230, 232 Macbeth, 182, 185, 227, 254–5, 256, 257, 265–6 Angelo, 237 Mardian, 213, 273 Antony, 60–4, 214, 271 Mercutio, 82, 84, 86, 88–94, 95–7, 102, 103, Apothecary, 274 152, 274 Barnardine, 193 Nurse, 86–7, 88 Benvolio, 84, 94, 98 Oliver, 5 Bolingbroke, 206 Othello, 178, 182 Bottom, 253 Paris, 94 Brutus, 224, 226 Parolles, 9 Caesar, 17, 21, 23 Percy. See Hotspur Caliban, 10–12, 14–15, 157, 259 Poor Tom. See Edgar Capulet, 95, 108 Posthumus, 261 Cleopatra, 63, 65, 188, 213, 263, 270 Regan, 175 Coriolanus, 6 Richard II, 187–8, 206 Edgar, 176, 229–30, 240, 248, 249, 250, 252, Richard III, 259 257, 258 Richmond, 224 Edmund, 4–5, 175–7 Romeo, 82, 83, 84–6, 88, 90, 94, 97, 98–101, Falstaff, 2–5, 122–3, 124, 155, 157, 189–93, 103–6, 107, 108, 109, 110–12, 207, 273 214, 217, 259 Rosalind, 4–5, 63–4, 65, 70, 71, 73, 74, 95, Faulconbridge, 237 173, 212, 214, 270 Fool, 229–30, 240, 247, 249 Rosaline, 85 France, 249 Rosencrantz, 197 Ganymede. See Rosalind Shylock, 70, 71, 72, 73 Gloucester (King Lear), 229, 230, 231 Stephano, 157 Goneril, 175 Sycorax, 263 Guildenstern, 197 Tarquin, 259, 266 Hal, 171, 190, 191–2, 212, 237, 238 Titania, 263 Hamlet, 76, 171, 175, 178–80, 189, 197–8, Tybalt, 82, 90, 93, 95, 97, 110 204, 206, 209, 211, 212, 213, 214, 226, 236, Vincentio, 21, 23 237, 241, 243, 261, 265 Chartism, 128–32, 134, 135–6 Helena, 65 Shaksperean Association of Leicester Henry V. See Hal Chartists, 130, 131 Hotspur, 189–90, 193 Shaksperean Chartist Hymn Book, 130 Iago, 171, 175, 177–8, 213 Shaksperean General. See Cooper Jack Cade, 124, 125, 221 Christ, 160, 212, 257, 258 Juliet, 82, 83, 84, 86–8, 90, 94, 97, 98–108, resurrection of, 192 109, 110, 111–12, 142, 186–7, 206, 213, 270, Christianity, 192–3, 199, 249–50, 256–7, 258 273–4 Catholicism, 207, 262 Kent, 229–30, 249 Protestantism, 147, 150, 155, 207, 236, 262 Lady Capulet, 87 Churchill, Charles, 114 Lady Macbeth, 263 Churchill, Winston, 15, 16 Lear, 229–30, 231, 241, 259, 261, 266–7 civilisation, 242, 243–4, 245, 252, 253, 255 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-13085-2 — Shakespeare for Freedom Ewan Fernie Index More Information index 321 Cliff, Nigel, 222 Dickens, Charles, 222 Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 178 Dickey, Stephen, 226 Condell, Henry, 47 Diderot, Denis Cooper, Thomas, 128–36, 160, 274 The Paradox of Acting, 117 Corsica, 143–5, 146 Dobson, Michael, 127, 140, 142, 220 counter-memory, as a term, 49, 51 Dollimore, Jonathan, 37, 48–9, 142, 165, Cowper, William, 121 168–9, 170, 204 creativity, 215, 217 Döring, Tobias, 235 criticism, 260, 265 Dostoevsky, Fyodor, 78, 176 academic, 258 Douglass, Frederick, 31, 32, 226 creative, 50 Dowden, Edward, 157 cultural, 244 drama, 202–3, 204, 207, 208, 212–15, 231, 236, German, 155, 203 253, 272 historical, 50 Dreyfus, Alfred, 235 left-political, 142 Drury Lane, 114, 121, 143, 216 literary, 59, 152, 168, 169, 268 political, 37 Eagleton, Terry, 43, 165, 260 Shakespeare, 52, 64, 77, 116, 155, 166, 167, Elizabeth I, Queen of England, 126 177 Elliott, Gertrude, 140 cultural materialism, 168–9, 171 Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 31–2 Cultural Olympiad, 1 Empire, British, 220, 221 culture, 1, 2, 6, 164, 208, 244, 245, 250, 252, England, 13, 142 261, 267, 271 England, Martha Winburn, 148–9, 216 Anglo-American, 233 English Liberties, 139 British, 14, 223 Englishness, 13, 33, 40, 45, 54–5, 142–3 English, 148, 195, 262 Eötvös, József, 160 French, 153, 157, 239 Eschenburg, Johann Joachim, 163 global, 43, 45 Essex rebellion, 126, 127 liberal, 222 male, 268 feminism, 269 modern, 196, 269 Fiedler, Leslie, 11–12 patriarchal, 270 Fitter, Chris, 111 rationalist, 252 Flower, Richard, 136 Russian, 157 Folger Shakespeare Library, 32, 33 Western, 20, 82, 83, 143, 241, 245, 257, 265 Foote, Samuel, 143, 216 Forbes-Robertson, Johnston, 140 Dávidházi, Péter, 216 Ford’s Theatre, 225, 226, 241 Dawson, George, 28, 33 Forrest, Edwin, 221, 222, 223, 227 De Certeau, Michel, 166 Foucault, Michel, 49, 165, 171 De Grazia, Margreta, 200 Foulkes, Richard, 138 De Montaigne, Michel, 171 France, 143, 147, 157 death, 107–10, 111–12, 193 Frank, Tibor, 24 Derrida, Jacques, 76, 99–100, 109, 165, 166 Frankfurt-am-Main, 147, 149, 156, 157 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-13085-2 — Shakespeare for Freedom Ewan Fernie Index More Information 322 index freedom Freud, Sigmund, 92, 165, 242–4, 257, 272 abstract, 211 Oedipus, 243 aesthetic, 54 Fromm, Erich, 71, 174 Christian, 199 Furtwangler, Albert, 224 complete, 257, 265 daemonic (in Nietzschean sense), 122 Gadamer, Hans Georg, 203–4 dangerous, 237 Gainsborough, Thomas, 118 demonic, 107, 132 Garibaldi, General, 48, 139 erotic, 174 Garrick, David, 48–52, 113–26, 127–8, 129, 135, ethics of, 166, 272 136, 143, 145, 146, 148, 150, 151, 152, 155, evil, 78, 173, 176 156, 216, 217, 274 existential, 2, 158 Freedom of Stratford, 118, 125 feminist, 53, 76, 77 Freeman, 114, 118, 119, 120 Greek, 199 Garrick Jubilee. See Stratford Jubilee human, 84 Shakespeare Temple, 114, 123, 125 individual, 58–9, 75, 78–9, 164, 167, 173, genre, 64–5, 68, 70 174, 178, 186, 195–6, 198–9, 201, 208, 210, comedy, 68, 70 214, 271–2, 274 tragedy, 68, 70, 205, 214 intellectual, 167 Germany, 147, 148, 149, 153, 154, 157, 233 metaphysical, 100–1 Gervinus, Georg Gottfried, 155, 232, 233–9 national, 227 Gilpin, Charles, 33–4 negative, 71, 124, 133, 161, 176, 178, 189 Global Shakespeare, 40 political, 66–7, 75, 78, 80, 124–6, 128–36, God, 207, 208, 247, 250 158, 161, 173, 181, 193, 194, 209, 273, 274 Goddess. See Venus and Adonis; Hughes politics of, 45, 79, 102, 126, 128, 131, 135, 140, Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 50, 147–53, 142, 160, 201, 214, 238, 271–2, 273 154–5, 156–7, 214, 232, 233, 235, private, 109 239, 274 prosodic, 55–6 Goodrich, Thomas, 226 queer, 170 Grady, Hugh, 170–1, 205 Roman, 199 Gramsci, Antonio, 165, 168 self-creating, 217 Graves, Robert sexual, 83, 95, 139 The White Goddess, 263 social, 80, 208, 214 Gray, John, 56–7 spiritual, 53 Greece, 251, 257 subjective, 6, 210 Greenblatt, Stephen, 52, 57–8, 167–8, tragic, 70, 78, 109 169, 261 universal, 69, 106, 201, 209 Griffiths, Lemuel Matthews, 24 usage of, 53–5 Freetown, as a concept, 80–2, 83–4, 86, 89, Hadfield, Andrew, 126 90, 93, 94, 97, 99, 103, 104, 107, 110, 111, Halberstam, Judith, 172 112, 113, 129, 145, 156, 162, 198, 202, 204, Hamann, Johann Georg, 155 210 Harney, George Julian, 136 Freiligrath, Ferdinand, 236 Hauptmann, Gerhart, 159 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-13085-2 — Shakespeare for Freedom Ewan Fernie Index More Information index 323 Havel, Václav, 162 Kahn, Coppélia, 61 Hawkes, Terrence, 260 Karamzin, Nikolay, 158 Hazlitt, William, 74–5, 184 Kazinczy, Ferenc, 159–60 Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 52, 58, 59, Kean, Edmund, 72, 224 60, 61, 66, 106, 110, 148, 163–6, 171, 176–7, Keats, John, 271 179–80, 181–9, 194–203, 204–16, 217–19, Kemble, Charles, 163 238, 272–3, 274, 275 Keresztury, Dezső, 159 Heminge, John, 47 Kermode, Frank, 231 Herder, Johann Gottfried von, 148–9, 152–7, Kernan, Alvin, 48 203, 235 Kettle, Arnold, 142 Hermann, Johann Georg, 236 Kierkegaard, Søren, 166, 180, 197 Höfele, Andreas, 246, 258 King Leir, 231 Hofmannstahl, Hugo von, 203 Klee, Paul, 49 Hogarth, William, 118, 119, 148 Kleist, Heinrich von, 56–7 Holbrook, Peter, 49, 58–9, 66, 142, 173, 174, Knight, G.
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