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Note: works of literature are listed under their authors’ names, except for plays by Tom Stoppard. R&GAD in the index stands for Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (the play); TS stands for Sir Tom Stoppard. Abel, Lionel Baudrillard, Jean 214, 215, 219 Metatheatre 110–11 BBC Radio 14, 28, 29, 69, 91 absurdist theatre 17, 138–9, 143–4, 145 BBC (2) 88 Academy Awards 8, 35, 98 BBC World Service 29, 69 After Magritte 3, 62, 77, 136, 217, 218 Beckett, Samuel 107–8, 120, 156, 160, 162, Albert’s Bridge 3, 71, 73–5, 89, 99, 155 203, 204, 206 film 91, 101 papers 229 Albery, Sir Donald 229 Act Without Words 107 Almost Free Theatre 163 All that Fall 69 Always (film) 6 Endgame 108, 183–4 Amnesty International 143, 146 Happy Days 108, 205 Angry Silence, The (film) 109 Waiting for Godot 1, 20, 27, 108, 138, Another Moon Called Earth 3, 79 158, 160, 161, 204–5, 229 Arcadia 17, 27, 99, 134, 213 Bell, Tom 122 end 183, 189–90, 191–2 Ben Hur (film) 86–7 as film 99 Bennett, Jonathan 112, 161 Hannah 186–8 Berlin, TS in 2, 28, 89, 157, 158 literary sources 155, 209–11 Berlin Wall 141 love 186–92, 199 Berliner Ensemble 1, 27 performances 7, 8, 34, 210, 226 Berman, Ed 163 science 18–19, 149, 171, 176–83, 184, Berryman, John 192 225–7 Bethell, Nicholas 2 structure 149, 209–11 Bhabha, Homi 47 time 20–1, 183, 209–11 Bigsby, C. W. E. 57, 66, 108 twinning 121–2, 131 Billington, Michael 120 Artist Descending a Staircase 3, 6, 58, 62, Billy Bathgate (film) 7, 98 68, 76, 78, 121 Blind Date (film) 85 Attenborough, Sir Richard 91, 109 Blond, Anthony 91 Auden, W. H. 194 Bogarde, Dirk 92 audience 20, 212 Boireau, Nicole 155 authorial or narrative 57–62 Bolt, Robert 106 Ayckbourn, Alan 209 Boorman, John 88, 89, 90 Boundary, The 4 Ballard, J. G. Bradley, Bill 6 Empire of the Sun 6, 95 Bradshaw, Jon 125 Barlam, Patrick 164 Brahms, Caryl, and S. J. Simon Barthes, Roland 217, 219 No Bed for Bacon 166, 169–70 Bata (shoe manufacturer) 1 Brandman, Michael 96 Battle of the Sexes, The (film) 109 Brassell, Tim 135

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Brater, Enoch xiii, 20–1 political events 4, 5, 7, 32, 141–2, 142–3, Brazil (film) 6, 93–5 144, 145, 151, 163, 165 Breakfast at Tiffany’s (film) 15, 87 TS returns to 4, 8, 143 Brecht, Bertolt 61, 139, 146 in TS’s plays 80–1, 142–3, 146–7 Berliner Ensemble 1, 27 theatre 144–5, 163 Galileo 92 Bristol 1, 29, 84, 86, 88–9 Dalliance 6 Bristol Evening World 2, 84, 85, 86, 109 Dane, Clemence Bristol Old Vic 1, 2, 6, 27, 143, 157 Will Shakespeare – An Invention 166, 170 Bristol University 2 Darjeeling, India 1, 7, 11, 25, 26 British Empire 12, 40–3 death 19, 61, 190, 195, 198, 210 Broadway, New York 3, 30 Delaney, Paul xiii, 11–12, 57, 66, 138 Brodax, Al 91 Deliverance (film) 90 Brustein, Robert 107, 185 Depardieu, Gérard 9, 98 Bryden, Ronald 2, 30, 107, 167 Derrida, Jacques 217, 220, 223, 227 Buck, Joan Juliet 185, 199 Despair (film) 5, 84, 92, 93 Bukovsky, Vladimir 4 Dial M for Murder (film) 70 Bull, John xiii, 14, 16, 17, 214 dialogue 121, 130, 131–2, 161–2 Butler, Judith 219 Dillane, Stephen 8, 208 Byatt, A. S. 156 Dirty Linen 4, 137 Byron, George Gordon, 6th Baron 210 Dissolution of Dominic Boot, The 2, 3, “Darkness” 182, 183 69–70, 73, 79, 92 Doctorow, E. L. Cahn, Victor L. 56, 57 Billy Bathgate 7, 98 Cahoot’s Macbeth 145, 162, 163, 165 Dog It Was That Died, The 5, 6, 77–8 Canby, Vincent 93 Dogg’s Hamlet, Cahoot’s Macbeth 5, 18, Canning, Charles, 1st Earl 41 156, 162–6 Capote, Truman (15 Minute) Dogg’s Troupe Hamlet, The Breakfast at Tiffany’s 87 4, 7, 163, 164, 165 Capri 27 Dogg’s Our Pet 3, 163–4 Cats (musical; film proposed) 8, 99, 100 Dogg’s Troupe 163 Cave, Richard Allen 135 Dolphin School, Nottinghamshire 1, 27 Chandler, Raymond Donmar Warehouse 8, 9, 208 Poodle Springs 8, 98, 100 Dorn, Edward 171 Channing, Stockard 8 doubling see twinning/doubling chaos theory 149–50, 176, 178–82, 188–92, Dunjohn, Isabel 28 225 Dyer, Richard 44–5 Charter (77) 4, 141–2, 143, 144, 145, 163 Chatman, Seymour 65, 66 East India Company 40–1, 49 Chekhov, Anton 64, 125 Edinburgh Festival 2, 30, 107, 158, 162, The Seagull 8, 9, 34 203 Chelsea 6 Edwards, Paul xiii, 18–19 Churchill, Caryl 214 Ehle, Jennifer 8 cinema see film Empire of the Sun (film) 6, 95, 100 Cohn, Ruby 156 Engagement, The 3, 69, 78, 79, 80, 92 Comédie-Française 8 Enigma (film) 9, 84, 99, 100 Committee Against Psychiatric Abuse 142 Enter a Free Man 3, 4, 91, 105, 106–7 Communism 117, 141–2 Esslin, Martin 111 Connery, Sean 6, 7, 96–7 Every Good Boy Deserves Favour 4, 5, 32, Connor, Steven 220, 221–2, 224 38, 142–4 conservatism 16, 138, 149, 151 Evil Eden (film) 85 Conservative Party 138, 152 Ewing, Kenneth 28, 30, 89, 91, 95, 157, Corballis, Richard 135 166 Coward, Noël 130, 209 Exton, Clive 4 Crack in the Mirror (film) 86 Eyre, Richard 212 Craig, Noel 159 Czechoslovakia Fainberg, Victor 4, 142 TS’s early life in 1, 11, 25, 26 Far Off Place, A 6 Charter (77) 4, 141–2, 143, 144, 145, 163 Fassbinder, Rainer Werner 92

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Feynman, Richard 173, 183 Harrison, Harriet 226 Fielding, Emma 210 Hassan, Ihab 222 Fiennes, Joseph 8 Havel, Václav 145, 146 (15 Minute) Dogg’s Troupe Hamlet, The 4, political activity 4, 5, 6, 7, 117, 141, 142, 7, 163, 164, 165 143, 144, 151, 229 film TS meets 17, 143, 144 TS’s reviews 14–15, 84–8 The Garden Party 144 TS’s screenplays 14–15, 78, 84, 88–101, Largo Desolato 6, 143, 229–30 166 The Memorandum 143, 144 on television 78–82 Hawthorne, Nigel 174 see also film titles Helvin, Marie 9 Fitzgerald, F. Scott 99 Highfield, Roger 150 Fleming, John 157 Hobson, Harold 30, 104, 125 Ford, John Hoggart, Richard 87 ’Tis Pity She’s a Whore 130, 132, 133, Hollywood 85, 94, 95,100 207 Holocaust 7 Ford Foundation 2, 28, 89, 157 homosexuality 116, 194–7 Frears, Stephen 95 Horace 195 freedom 4, 16, 125, 127, 136–7, 151 Hordern, Michael 106, 114 of the press 4, 32, 128–9 Horizon (television series) 171 Freeman, John 162 Housman, A. E. 185, 192–8, 199, 211–12 Fry, Stephen 116 How Sir Dudley Lost the Empire 2 Fun Art Bus 163 Human Factor, The (film) 5, 84, 93 Funny Man 2 Hungary 139 Husák, President 5, 165 Galileo (proposed film) 92, 99 Gambit (magazine) 116 I Can’t Give You Anything But Love, Baby Gamblers, The 2 2, 28 Gener, Randy 185, 199 Ibsen, Henrik 106 Gilliam, Terry 94–5 A Doll’s House 131 Ginzburg, Alexander 5 If You’re Glad I’ll Be Frank 2, 3, 14, 71–3, Gleick, James 75 Chaos: making a new science 178, 184, In the Native State 7, 8, 12, 17, 33, 34, 188 38–50, 78, 148, 188 Golden Globe Awards 8, 98 India Golden Lion award 7, 97–8 TS’s childhood in 1, 11, 25, 26, 27, 42–3, Goliath and the Barbarians (film) 86 148 Gordon, Giles 158, 161, 185, 199 in TS’s plays 12–13, 33–4, 38–50, 148, Greene, Graham 93 225 The Human Factor 5, 84, 93 TS visits 7 Grossman, John 144 Indian Ink 8, 12, 34, 38–50, 78, 199, 225 Guralnick, Elissa xiii–xiv, 14 Indian Mutiny 41 Gussow, Mel 130, 155, 184 Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (film) 6, 99 Hall, Sir Peter 1, 2, 8, 27 Ingle, Jose (later Stoppard) 2, 3, 29, 31 Hamlet (film) 27, 84, 98 Inter-Action 163 Hapgood 21, 93, 107, 121 Invention of Love, The 15, 16, 17, 26, 99, film 8 116, 147, 149, 150–1, 155, 211–12 politics 148–9, 183 end 197 postmodernism 218, 225, 229, 230 love 19–20, 121, 185, 186, 192–8 productions 6, 7, 8, 18–19, 21, 26, 33 productions 8, 9 science 18–19, 171–6 title 197 twinning 19, 26 Irving, Washington Harding, James M. 214 Sleepy Hollow 8–9 Hare, David 229 Iver, Buckinghamshire 6, 31 The Judas Kiss 116, 212 Knuckle 90, 99, 100 Jagger, Mick 100 Harris, Robert James, Clive 18, 158, 168 Enigma 9, 84 James, Henry 64

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Jameson, Frederic 218, 219, 220–1 London Symphony Orchestra 4, 5, 142 Jenkins, Anthony 67, 135 Lorca, Federico Garcia Jerome K. Jerome The House of Bernarda Alba 3 Three Men in a Boat 4, 20, 196, 200 Los Angeles 6 Jet Storm (film) 85 Losey, Joseph 92 Jews love 10, 19, 121, 185–98 Soviet 5, 6, 12, 32, 35 in The Invention of Love 19–20, 121, TS’s Jewish identity 12, 34–5 185, 186, 192–8 Johnson, Paul 137, 152 in The Real Thing 129–30, 132–3 journalism 27, 28, 84, 85 Love for Three Oranges, The 6 Jowett, Benjamin 194, 211 Low, Gail Ching-Liang 41 Joyce, James 125, 140, 156, 206 Lowe, Lisa 43 Ulysses 124 Lyotard, Jean-François 215, 218–19, 220 Joyce, Paul 79 Jumpers 105, 112–16 “M” is for Moon Among Other Things 2, politics 137 70, 73 postmodernism 214, 218, 223–5 Macaulay, Thomas Babington, 1st Baron 47, productions 3, 4, 6, 30, 31–2 49 Shakespearean quotation 155 MacGowran, Jack End of Day 107 Kafka, Franz 158 Madam Butterfly 59–60 Kanin, Garson Madden, John 98 Born Yesterday 4 Magritte, René 3, 156 Kaufman, Moises Marlowe, Derek 89 Gross Indecency: the three trials of Oscar Marowitz, Charles 158 Wilde 212 Marvell, Andrew 210 Keats, John 115, 207, 210 Marxism 140–1 Kelly, Katherine E. xiv, 155, 156, 157 Mate, Gabor 139 Kendal, Felicity 5, 6, 7, 8, 33–4, 208, 210, McEwan, Ian 100 226 McKeown, Charles 94 Kerr, Walter 125 memory 19, 125, 126, 161 Kingsmill, Hugh 198 Merrick, David 99 Knuckle (proposed film) 90, 99, 100 Merry Widow, The 7 Kohout, Pavel 145, 163, 165 Metromedia 81 Poor Murderer 165 MGM 89, 90, 91, 92 Kott, Jan 138 Miller, Arthur 105–6, 120 mirrors 63, 67 La Dolce Vita (film) 87 modernism 221 Lambert, J. W. 106 Molnár, Ferenc language 161 Play at the Castle 6 in Dogg’s Hamlet 163–5 Moore-Robinson, Miriam (later Stoppard) 3, doubling 11, 17, 121, 124 7, 31 postmodern 213 Moscow 4 see also dialogue; translation Mosley, Nicholas le Carré, John Hopeful Monsters 7, 100 The Russia House 7, 84, 93, 96 Mrozek, Slawomir Lean, David 95 Tango 2, 111 Lee, Josephine xiv, 12–13 Müller, Heiner 220, 225 Left Handed Gun (film) 88 Munich 5 Lehár, Franz Murray, Brian 159 The Merry Widow 7 music 132, 133–4 Leight, Warren 91 Lenin, V. I. 40, 206, 221 Nabokov, Vladimir Leningrad 4 Despair 5, 84, 92, 93 “Let Misha Go” campaign 5 Invitation to a Beheading 60, 66 Leveaux, David 208 Nadel, Ira B. xiv, 14–15 Levenson, Jill xiv, 17–18 Nathan, David 213 Living Room Theatre 163 National Theatre 6, 9 logic 115–16, 136, 161 Arcadia 7, 34

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The (15 Minute) Dogg’s Troupe Hamlet 4, Poodle Springs (film) 8, 98, 100 7, 163, 164, 165 postmodernism 21, 213–27 The Invention of Love 8, 194 Pound, Ezra 198 Jumpers 3, 4, 31–2 Poussin, Nicholas On the Razzle 5 The Arcadian Shepherds 176, 183, 189 “Roll Call at the NT” 6 Preminger, Otto 93, 99 Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead press, freedom of the 4, 32, 128–9 2, 3, 8, 30, 162 Previn, André 32, 142 Rough Crossing 6 Prince, Hal 99 Undiscovered Country 5 Prisoner of Conscience Year 143 National Union of Journalists 4 Procul Harum (rock group) 133 Nazis 1,11, 34–5,117, 145 Professional Foul 4, 32, 80–1, 121, 146–7, Nestroy, Johann 5, 33 151 Neutral Ground 3, 79–80 props 121–2, 131, 210 New York 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 30 Puttnam, David 96 Newcomers, The (tv) 88 New-Found-Land 137 Questors 158 Night and Day 12, 16–17, 27, 38, 117, 120, 125–9, 137–8 Rabinowitz, Peter J. xv, 13 productions 5 radio 14, 68–78, 101 Nightingale, Benedict 185, 199, 210–11 Ransom Center, University of Texas, Austin Nighy, Bill 210, 226 157, 229–30 No Love For Johnny (film) 87 Rattigan, Sir Terence 8, 34, 105 Nobel Peace Prize 6 Read, Piers Paul 89 Norman, Marc 7, 98, 166 Real Inspector Hound, The 2, 3, 6, 7, 8, 30, Nunn, Trevor 210 62, 88, 155 Real Thing, The 16, 17, 20, 33, 115, 120, O’Brien, Edna 104–5 128, 129–34, 135, 148, 149, 154, Observer 2, 27, 30, 167 207–9 Old Vic Theatre, London 28, 30 film considered 99 Olivier, Sir Laurence 27, 84, 86, 98 love 19, 129–30, 150, 185–6 Olympiad, 22nd 5 productions 5, 6, 8, 9, 208 On the Razzle 5, 33, 121 Redgrave, Lynn 4 One Pair of Eyes (tv) 3 Rees, Roger 5, 33, 174, 208 Orton, Joe 16, 108 Rhys, Paul 193, 212 Osborne, John 69, 116, 229 Richard III (film) 86 Look Back in Anger 1, 27 Rigg, Dame Diana 33, 114 Oscars 6, 93 Roberts, Julia 7, 34 O’Toole, Peter 2, 27, 157 “Roll Call at the NT” 6 Oxford Playhouse 30 Romantic Englishwoman, The (film) 4, 92 Oxford Theatre Group 158 Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (R&GAD; play) 10, 11, 18, 25, 60, 61, Paltrow, Gwyneth 8, 98 107, 108, 109–12, 138, 139, 156, paradox 214 157–62, 163, 167, 189, 203–5, 217 Paragraph for Mr. Blake, A 2 Edinburgh Festival production 2, 30, 107, Paramount 92 203 Parks, Suzan-Lori 219–20 Hungarian production 139, 152 parody 20 main characters 26 Pater, Walter 194, 211, 212 National Theatre production 3, 8, 30, 91, Perry, John 164 104 Pinter, Harold 30, 69, 156, 158 in New York 3, 30, 91, 104, 159, 185 The Birthday Party 104 performance 204 The Caretaker 165 postmodernism 223 Pocklington School, Yorkshire 1, 27 RSC option on 29, 158 Poland 5, 7, 17, 81–2, 111, 136 sources 204–5 Solidarity 5, 17, 81–2, 136 written 89–90, 158, 160 Squaring the Circle: Poland 1989–91 5, 6, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead 14, 17, 78, 81–2, 136–7, 148, 229 (film) 6, 7, 84, 89–90, 92, 96–8, 166, Tango 111 169–70

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Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Meet King Romeo and Juliet 166, 167 Lear 2, 28–9, 89, 157–8 sonnets 155 Rough Crossing 6, 7 The Tempest 21, 154 Rowe, John Carlos 217 Twelfth Night 33, 166 Royal Court Theatre 27, 29–30, 108, 229 Shakespeare in Love (film) 7, 8, 10, 15, 18, Royal National Theatre 210, 212 29, 33, 34, 35, 98, 100, 166–7, 198, Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) 2, 27, 200, 212 111 Shaw, George Bernard 64, 125, 214 R&GAD 29, 158 Shcharansky, Anatoly 5 Travesties 2, 4, 7, 34, 141 Sher, Anthony 34 Rudman, Michael 33 signification 217–18, 223 Ruskin, John 194, 211 Simard, Rodney 123 Russia Simpson, N. F. 229 revolution 140, 141 Singapore 1, 11, 25, 26, 95 TS visits 146 Sleepy Hollow (film) 8–9 see also Soviet Union Smith, Anthony 86, 88, 91, 157, 166 Russia House, The (film) 7, 84, 93, 96, 100 socialism 116, 136–7, 141 Solidarity 5, 17, 81–2, 136 Sales, Roger 111 Sontag, Susan 106–7, 116 Saltzman, Harry 99 South Pacific (film) 85 Sammells, Neil xv, 15–16, 67, 119, 168 Soviet Union 4, 32, 136, 141–6, 148–9 San Francisco 9 Jewish dissidents 5, 6, 12, 32, 35 Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (film) “Let Misha Go” campaign 5 15, 86, 88 Spark, Muriel 104–5, 115 Saunders, James 117, 138, 157, 158, 168, Spartacus (film) 14, 86 229 Spielberg, Steven 95 Next Time I’ll Sing To You 109–10, 157 Squaring the Circle: Poland 1989–91 5, 6, Scene (magazine) 2, 28, 89, 104–5, 107–8, 14, 17, 78, 81–2, 136–7, 148, 229 115, 157 Stand-Ins, The 2 Schepisi, Fred 96, 100 Star Wars (film) 216 Schindler’s List (film) 99 Stevens, Wallace 213 Schnitzler, Arthur Stoppard, Barnaby (son of TS) 3, 31 Das Weite Land 5 Stoppard, Edmund (son of TS) 4, 31 Liebelei 5 Stoppard, Jose (née Ingle; 1st wife of TS) 2, science 3, 29, 31 in Arcadia 149–50, 176, 178–82, 188–92, Stoppard, Kenneth (stepfather of TS) 225 as stepfather 1, 11–12, 25 in Hapgood 18–19, 171–6 after wife’s death 8, 12, 35 Scorsese, Martin 971 death 8, 25, 34 Scotsman 30 Stoppard, Martha (formerly Straüssler; Scottish Daily Express 30 mother of TS) Screen Writer’s Guild of America 96, 100 in TS’s childhood 1, 11, 12 Seagull, The 8, 9 death 8, 25, 34 Separate Peace, A 2, 7, 79 Stoppard, Miriam (2nd wife of TS) 3, 7, 31 set design 16, 121–2, 131 Stoppard, Oliver (son of TS) 2, 29 Sewell, Rufus 210 Stoppard, Peter (formerly Straüssler; brother Shadows (film) 86 of TS) 1, 8, 11, 25 Shakespeare, William 17–18, 154–67 Stoppard, Sir Tom (formerly Straüssler) Hamlet 155: Abel on 110–11; at Bristol childhood 11, 25–7, 34 Old Vic 27, 157; Dogg’s Hamlet, name 25–6, 35 Cahoot’s Macbeth 5, 18, 156, 162–6; schools 1, 25, 26, 27, 157 The (15 Minute) Dogg’s Troupe Hamlet as journalist 27–9, 84 4, 7, 163, 164, 165; film 27, 84, 98; and film criticism 14–15, 84–8 The Real Thing 207–8; and R&GAD film screenplays 14–15, 78, 84, 88–101, 18, 20, 28–9, 138, 156, 157–63, 203–4; 166 Wilde on 111 first experience of theatre 27, 157 Macbeth 18, 115, 145–6, 155, 163, 165 theatre reviews 27, 28, 104–6, 110, 115, Othello 59, 131, 133, 155 157 Richard III 115: film 86 writes for BBC 28, 29, 30

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early play productions 30, 31–2, 157 Three Men in a Boat (tv) 4, 8 1st marriage 2, 3, 29, 31 time 2nd marriage 3, 7, 31 in Arcadia 20–1, 179, 183, 189–91, and F. Kendal 7, 8, 33–4 209–10 and M. Helvin 9 in The Invention of Love 195 Czech relatives 12, 34–5 in radio plays 14, 69–75 Jewish identity 12, 34–5 in R&GAD 161 knighted 11, 12, 34 Times, The 34, 142, 144 papers, archived 229–30 reviews 106, 211 works: TS writes to 97 “Camera Call” column 85 Today’s Cinema 91 “Confessions of a Screenwriter” 91–2, Toﬂer, Alvin 100 Future Shock 99 “Critic and his Credo” 86 “Tom Stoppard Doesn’t Know” (tv) 3 “Films” column 85–6 Toms, Carl 33 “Life, Times: Fragments” 65 Tony Awards 3, 4, 6, 8, 9, 30 Lord Malquist and Mr Moon (novel) 3, Toucatt, Ralph 165 13, 29, 56–64, 100 translation 6, 143, 179, 229–30 “On Turning Out To Be Jewish” 35 Travesties 13, 19, 122–5, 131, 155–6, “Reunion” 65, 67 206–7 “The Story” 65 politics 139–42, 147 see also play titles postmodernism 217, 218, 220–2, 225 Stoppard, William (son of TS) 3, 31 productions 4, 7, 34, 122 Straüssler, Eugen (father of TS) 1, 11, 20, 95 structure 16, 17 Straüssler, Martha (later Stoppard; mother of trompe-l’oeil scenes 121, 123, 207 TS) see Stoppard, Martha Night and Day 125–6 Straüssler, Peter (later Stoppard; brother of The Real Thing 130 TS) 1, 8, 11 twinning/doubling 11, 12, 17, 19, 26, 35, Straüssler, Tomásˇ see Stoppard, Sir Tom 121 Strindberg, August 130 in Arcadia 19, 190–2 structuralism 217 in Hapgood 19, 26, 173–5 structure, dramatic 16, 17, 120–1, 136 in The Invention of Love 26 Arcadia 149 linguistic 11, 17, 121, 124 Cahoot’s Macbeth 145 postmodernism 213–14 Night and Day 126–7 in The Real Thing 131–3 The Real Thing 130–2 in R&GAD 26 see also trompe-l’oeil scenes; in Travesties 124–5 twinning/doubling Tynan, Kenneth 1, 2, 27, 29, 30, 31, 105 “Student’s Diary, A” 2, 29, 30 TS’s letters to 115–16, 117 Sunday Times 143 Tzara, Tristan 206 Swift, Jonathan 136 Swiss Family Robinson (ﬁlm) 85 Undiscovered Country 5 Syms, Sylvia 85 University of Texas, Austin 7, 229–30

Talk (magazine) 12, 20 Van der Post, Laurens Tango 111 A Far Off Place 6 Tanztheater 219 Vanden Heuvel, Michael xv, 21 Tate Gallery, London 3 Vatel (ﬁlm) 9, 98, 99, 100 Teeth 3, 79 Venice Film Festival 7, 97–8 television 14, 28, 68, 78–82, 98 Vidal, Gore 97 Thatcher, Margaret 149, 151, 219 theatre Walesa, Lech 5, 6, 7, 82 TS’s ﬁrst experience of 27, 157 Walk on the Water, A 2, 3, 28, 91, 105, 152 TS reviews 27, 28, 104–6, 107–10, 115, Wardle, Irving 106, 144 157 Watt, Stephen 215, 228 This Way Out With Samuel Boot 2 Webster, John 207 Thomas, Dylan Wesker, Arnold 69 Under Milk Wood 69 West, Samuel 226 Thompson, E. P. 117 Western Daily Press 1, 27, 84, 86, 88

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Wheeler, Hugh Wilder, Thornton Big Fish, Little Fish 105–6 The Bridge of San Luis Rey 67 Where Are They Now? 3, 75–6 Wiseman, Thomas 4 Whitaker, Thomas R. 57 The Romantic Englishwoman 92 Wilde, Oscar 15, 16, 64, 104–5, 106–7, 108, Wittgenstein, Ludwig 156, 158 116, 117–18, 119, 124, 156, 206 Philosophical Investigations 160, 161, De Profundis 104 162, 163 ﬁlms on 116 Wood, John 33, 122, 159, 193, 196, 212, on Hamlet 111 223 The Importance of Being Earnest 106, Wood, Peter 3, 31–2, 33, 125, 208 112, 122–3, 124, 139–40, 204, 205, Wooster Group 219 206–7, 208, 221: Miss Prism 125 Wordsworth, William 124, 156 and The Invention of Love 19, 116, 150–1, 196–7, 211–12 Zeifman, Hersh xv, 19, 125, 130–1 The Picture of Dorian Gray 115 Zinman, Toby xv, 16–17 The Soul of Man Under Socialism 109, 112 Zlín, Czechoslovakia 1, 8, 11, 145

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