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Note: Shakespearean characters (shown in bold type) are from As You Like It unless otherwise stated.
Adam 14–15, 129, 132, 155–8, 168–9, 223
Alcott, Louisa May 187
Alençon, Duke of 101
Alice in Wonderland 224
All’s Well that Ends Well 176
Amends for Ladies 190–1
Amiens 128
Andersen, Hans Christian 181
‘androgynous mind’ 201
Anjou, Duke of 92
Ansell, Mary 10 anti-clericalism 14
Antony and Cleopatra 108–9
Arden, Forest of 20–1, 104, 215–24
Arden, Mary 215
Ariosto, Ludovico 151–2
Arne, Thomas 8
As You Like It 52–3, 106–8, 119–21, 131, 136, 158, 177, 221
cast list 209
early performances 7–8, 106, 215
Epilogue vii-viii, 1–2, 16, 28, 58, 171–85, 197
immediate source for the plot 16, 151
naming of 23
proverbs from 138, 214
synopsis of 210–13 As You Like It (film, 1936) 10–11, 75, 166–7, 174
As You Like It (film, 1950) 159–61
As You Like It (film, 1992) 181
As You Like It (film, 2006) 174–5
Ascham, Roger 95-7
Ashcroft, Peggy 50, 180–1
Athene 12, 24, 97
Atkins, Eileen 76–7, 168
Auden, W.H. 25, 45, 120
audiences, importance of 65
Audrey 16, 73, 80, 83, 86, 115, 132, 223
Austen, Jane 192
Bannen, Ian 167
Barker, Pat 203
Barnfield, Richard 68
Barrie, J.M. 9– 11
Bate, Jonathan 5
The Beatles 111
Beatrice (in Much Ado About Nothing) 8, 26, 52–8, 136
Beck, Michelle 119
Beechey, Sir William 3–4
Benedick (in Much Ado About Nothing 26, 54–8, 136, 154
Bennett, Edward 58
Bergner, Elisabeth 10, 75, 166, 174
Bernhardt, Sarah 159
Berowne (in Love’s Labour’s Lost) 24–9, 52, 58, 154
Billington, Michael 65, 161
Bloom, Harold 118, 178
Boleyn, Anne 90, 102
Bolingbroke, Henry 104
boy actors 62–5, 69–73, 89, 173–6, 179, 181, 191
Boyd, Michael 156, 161, 165, 168–9
de Boys, Sir Rowland (mentioned in As You Like It) 14, 17, 111, 150, 155
de Boys family tree 208
Branagh, Kenneth 28, 174
Brett, Jeremy 167
Brontë sisters 193
Broom, Charlotte 42
Brown, Ford Madox vii, 8
Browning, Robert 123
Bryden, Ronald 181
Burghley, Lord see Cecil, William
Burney, Fanny 3
Byrd, William 108
Caird, John 172
Camargo, Christian 77, 113, 155, 165, 168
Camden, William 97, 215–16
Campbell, Lady Archibald 159–60
Capell, Edward 223
Cecil, Robert 99
Celia 13, 16, 19–21, 23–4, 42–3, 33, 60- 1, 64, 67–70, 73, 79, 83–4, 102, 114–19, 122–3, 126, 132, 134–49, 162, 188–9
La Chanson de Roland 151
Charles the wrestler 20, 52, 114, 122, 135, 139, 150–6
Chaucer, Geoffrey 14, 155, 157
Cheek by Jowl 5, 76, 181
Coates, Simon 149
Coleman, John 89
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor 201, 223
Comédie Française 147, 193
Common Prayer, Book of 80, 107
Congreve, William 57
Cooke, Alexander 69
Corin 16, 64, 70, 73, 93, 143, 218
Coveney, Michael 148
Cowden Clarke, Mary 148
Cranmer (in Henry VIII) 106
Crisp, Quentin 105
cross-dressing 5–6, 30–4, 42–3, 45, 47, 51, 61- 3, 67–70, 74, 76, 88–9, 117, 159, 179
Cumming, Alan 204
Cushman, Charlotte 8, 88–9
Cymbeline 29, 47–51, 55, 108
Cymbeline (film, 2015) 52
Czinner, Paul 10–11, 166, 174
Daniel Deronda 194
Dante Alighieri 218
Dekker, Thomas 179, 189
de la Mare, Walter 1
de la Tour, Frances 159
Dench, Judi 1, 5, 9, 42, 97
Devereux, Robert see Essex, Earl of
Dickens, Charles 148
Dietrich, Marlene 65
Dillon, Lisa 189
Ditchley portrait 92
domestic violence 55
Donne, John 120
Donnellan, Declan 5, 76
Doran, Gregory 77
Drake, Sir Francis 98
Dudley, Robert see Leicester, Earl of
Dunham, Lena 187
Dupin, Amantine-Lucile-Aurore see Sand, George
Edward VI 91
Edzard, Christine 181
Eliot, George 135, 194
Elizabeth I viii, 24, 59, 63–4, 90–110
conspiracies against 94–5
the Golden Speech 99, 104–5
love for and care of her people 101, 103, 107
pictures of 92, 105, 109–10
Elliott, Michael 121
Erasmus 100
Essex, Earl of 95, 101, 104
Evans, Edith 40, 125, 148, 167
Evans, Mary Anne see Eliot, George
Falstaff 178
Farjeon, Herbert 40
Farquhar, George 191
Faucit, Helen 8, 89, 180
feminism 99–100, 116, 186, 188
Field, Nathan 190–1
Fletcher, John 106
Flynn, Johnny 42
Ford, Ford Madox 198
Foxe, John 94
fratricide 150–1
(Duke) Frederick 16, 20, 23–4, 34, 59–60, 91–5, 104, 112–15, 132, 134, 138–42, 150–1, 155, 169, 183, 189, 217–18
Frederick, Naomi 199
Friedan, Betty 186
Frith, Mary 62, 179, 190
Ganymede 13, 16, 21, 23, 34, 43, 46–7, 68–70, 75–9, 83, 117, 189
Garbo, Greta 65
Garrick, David 191
Gaskell, Elizabeth 186–7
Gautier, Théophile 166
gender stereotyping 174
gentleness 158
Gheeraerts, Marcus the Younger 92
Gibbons, Orlando 140–1
Gilbert, W.S. 25
Godwin, Simon 30, 34
Goodbody, Buzz 76
Goodman, Godfrey 103
Gosson, Stephen 62
Gqirana, Mobbs 104
Grahame, Kenneth 224
Greene, Robert 152
Grey, Lady Jane 95
hair, women’s 186–7
Hall, John 80
Hall, Peter 40, 43, 152
Hall, Rebecca 60, 71, 75, 120, 130, 152, 165
Hamlet 24, 72, 88, 111, 150, 159, 162, 177–8
Hardy, Thomas 8, 193–4
Harington, Sir John 152
Hathaway, Anne 80
Hatton, Sir Christopher 101–2
Hazlitt, William 44, 47, 50
Henry VII 59, 94
Henry VIII (historical character) 90, 99 Henry VIII (play) 60, 106
Hepburn, Katharine 127, 159, 187
Hepworth Dixon, Ella 196
Hewison, Jean 117
Hilliard, Nicholas 71, 73, 92
Hoffman, Dustin 40
Holinshed, Raphael 93
Homer 12
homosexuality and homoerotic feelings 2, 12, 31, 62, 70, 75, 78, 132
Howard, Bryce Dallas 175
Howard of Effingham, Lord 98
Howerd, Frankie 1
Hunt, Holman 33
Hunt, Leigh 4
Hymen 12, 14, 108, 133
Ibsen, Henrik 181, 195
‘if’, extemporisation on 86–7
Illustrated London News 159
Imogen (in Cymbeline) 47–52, 108
Irving, Henry 166
James VI of Scotland (James I of England) 7, 102, 104
James, Geraldine 40
James, Henry 197
Jameson, Anna 51, 115–16, 192
Jane Eyre 193
Jaques 8, 16, 33, 52, 65, 68, 80, 86, 93, 96, 119, 123, 148, 156–7, 161–4, 177–178, 183, 197–8, 201, 220
Jarman, Derek 182–3
Jefford, Barbara 148
Jerdy, Luke 42
Joan la Pucelle (in Henry VI part 1) 97
Johnson, Charles 215
Johnson, Dakota 52
Jones, Felicity 204
Jordan, Dorothy 3–5
Jude the Obscure 194
Juliet (in Romeo and Juliet) 56, 112–13, 119, 137, 156
Julius Caesar 111
Jumbo, Cush 195
Kallman, Chester 25
Kay, Charles 149 King Lear 17, 150
The King’s Men 191
Kott, Jan 87-8
Langtry, Lily 166
law, study and practice of 37, 96
Le Beau 95, 134, 155
Leicester, Earl of 92, 101–2
Lennox, Annie 187
Lester, Adrian 3, 5, 76, 117, 127, 149, 181–2
Levin, Bernard 121, 181
Little Women 186–7, 194
Lodge, Thomas 13–23, 68, 111, 130, 151, 153, 162, 216
Lord, Tracy 127
The Lord Chamberlains Company 106, 108, 220
love
and being loved 45, 52, 55, 71, 74
between women 22, 118
and blindness 47
change brought about by 57–8
and death 46
demonstrations of 132
discovered through cross-dressing 34
education in 163, 187–8, 204
failing in and out of 65, 122, 152–3
in fantasy 71–2
at first sight 111–14, 121, 147, 152, 155–6
language of 54
longing for 74
as many different things 161
portrayal of 2, 5–6, 12, 18–20
by proxy 21–3, 72, 78–9, 121, 164
Shakespeare’s view of 78
love poems hanging on trees 66–7, 70–1, 117–18, 125, 129, 144, 161, 163, 165
Love’s Labour’s Lost 24–9, 52, 58, 100
Love’s Labour’s Lost (film, 2001) 28
Love’s Labour’s Won 58
lovesickness 79
Lucretia 6, 96, 162
Lyly, John 63, 79, 173–4
McCowen, Alec 148
McEnery, Peter 168
MacGregor, Neil 21
MacIntyre, Blanche 17, 58, 155, 188
McKellen, Ian 50
McNee, Jodie 42, 44
McRae, Hilton 168
Marling, Laura 129
Marlowe, Christopher 69, 112
marriage as an institution 127, 133
Married Women’s Property Act 195
Mar-text, Sir Oliver 14, 80, 83
Mary I 91, 93
Mead, Rebecca 194
Melbourne, Lord 4
Mendes, Sam 77, 118–19, 182
The Merchant of Venice 29, 34–40
The Metamorphoses 12 Middlemarch 194
Middleton, Kate 187
Middleton, Thomas 179, 189
A Midsummer Night’s Dream 1, 13, 64, 101, 112, 135
Milne, A.A. 224
Mirren, Helen 74, 189, 293
de Molina, Tirso 62
money lending 36–7
Montaigne, Michel de 77
Morley, Thomas 129
Mortimer, Ian 6–7
Much Ado About Nothing 8, 26, 52–8, 136, 154
music in plays 108, 128–30
Nabokov, Nicolas 25
Nelligan, Kate 168
Ninagawa, Yukio 49, 51
Nixon, Pippa 112, 118, 156, 163, 184–5
Noble, Adrian 168
Nunn, Trevor 44
The Odyssey 12
Oliver 14, 17–18, 34, 52, 83–4, 132, 134, 146–7, 150–4, 157, 163, 168–9, 183
Oliver, Isaac 71
Olivier, Laurence 10–11, 65, 166–7
Oman, Julia Trevelyan 1
Orgel, Stephen 161
Orlando 6–7, 10–11, 13–15, 17–18, 21–2, 26–8, 30, 33–4, 43, 45, 52–3, 65–86, 96, 102, 107, 111, 114–34, 137, 139, 143–6, 150–69, 183, 188
Orlando (biography by Virginia Woolf) 154, 199–200
Orlando (film, 1992) 105
Orlando Furioso 151–2
Otake, Shinobu 50
Othello 47–8
Ovid 12, 65
Paget, Lord William 96
Paglia, Camille 79, 111
Paltrow, Gwyneth 97
Pascal, Blaise 121
Pater, Walter 24, 117
Peake, Maxine 159 Pericles 47
Peter, John 40
Peter Pan 10, 216, 224
Phebe 7, 15–16, 22–3, 33, 42, 45–6, 52, 70–5, 83–7, 112–15, 122, 132, 144, 146, 167, 188
The Philadelphia Story (film, 1940) 127
Phillips, Robin 221–3
Pickup, Ronald 75–6, 149, 161, 165, 167, 180
The Picture of Dorian Gray 196–7
Pius V, Pope 59, 107
Plato 114
Portia (in The Merchant of Venice) 29, 34–40
Potter, Sally 105, 200 Pride and Prejudice 192
Prince, William 159–61
Pritchard, Hannah 8
Prynne, William 69
Pushkin, Alexander viii
Rainolds, John 62, 65
Raleigh, Sir Walter 101, 177, 183, 219
The Rape of Lucrece 47–8
Ray, Man 200
The Recruiting Officer 191
Redgrave, Michael 167
Redgrave, Vanessa 1–2, 121, 167
Rehan, Ada 166
Richard II 59, 104
Richard III 59–60
Richardson, Joely 121
Richardson, Tony 2, 121, 167
The Roaring Girl 179, 189–90
Robin Hood 15, 20, 216
Romeo and Juliet 56, 88, 112–13, 119, 152
Roper, Margaret 95
Rosalind
anticipation of being married 81 – 2, 93, 114, 222
betrothal to Orlando 80–1, 83, 107, 126, 145
capacity and yearning for love 103, 115, 118, 127
disguise as a man 29, 67–79, 83, 89, 97, 115–20, 163
emotional depth 10–11, 66
femininity and masculinity in 63–4, 75–7, 87–9, 96–9, 111, 114, 157, 168, 174–5, 178, 185, 188
immortality of 12–13, 105
love life 111–33, 187–8
Orlando’s idealisation of 71–2, 163
personality viii, 2–3, 19, 23, 36, 68, 91
physical appearance 5–7, 19, 29, 81, 142
pictures of 3–4, 88
played by male actors 3, 5, 75–6
as a potentially tragic figure 60–1
promises about marriage 85–6
similarities to the Queen 90–3
underlying fragility of 83
use of language by 20, 29, 49, 67–70, 82, 111–12, 93, 96, 165
‘Rosalind’, general use of name 15–16
Rosalind (play by Barrie) 8–10
Rosaline (in Love’s Labour’s Lost) 24–9, 58, 100
Rosaline (in Romeo and Juliet) 24, 29, 112
roses, symbolism of 92, 109
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel 163, 186–7
Rossetti, William and Lucy vii Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) 28, 30, 51, 55, 58, 76–7, 81, 96, 112, 121, 129, 134, 156, 161, 168–9, 172, 184, 189
Rubens, Peter Paul 69
Rylance, Juliet 3, 69, 77, 113, 119, 165, 168, 182
Sackville-West, Vita 199
St Laurent, Yves 75
Sand, George 147–8, 197
Scott, Sally 60–1, 173, 180, 187–8, 196
Sears, Kim 187
(Duke) Senior 15–16, 22–4, 34, 59–60, 73, 86, 90, 94–5, 104, 107, 119, 122, 132, 145, 150–1, 158, 177, 183, 217–18
Sewell, Brian 75
sexual aspect of drama 65, 161
Shakespeare, Susanna 80
Shakespeare, William as an actor 223
aspects of writing viii, 57, 61, 173, 177
life and times of 3, 67, 106
modern productions of 41
studies of women 100
view of love 78, 152, 167 : see also under individual works and characters
Shakespeare in Love (film, 1998) 62, 97
Shaw, Fiona 118, 134, 137
Shaw, George Bernard 47, 131, 156–7
The Shepheardes Calender 15–16, 219
Siddons, Sarah 3, 52, 88, 159
Sidney, Mary 95
Sidney, Sir Philip 162, 219
Silverstone, Alicia 28
Silvius 13, 15–16, 21–2, 45–6, 52, 70–5, 83, 85, 89, 115, 122, 132, 144, 146, 167
Singer, Isaac Bashevis 201–2
Smith, Maggie 148, 181, 221–2
Sondheim, Stephen 204, 224
sonnets 162–3
Southampton, Earl of 72
Spanish Armada 95, 97
Spenser, Edmund 15, 90, 219
Spurling, Hilary 167
Stephen, Leslie 199
Stephens, Katy 156
Stevens, Dan 165
Stevenson, Juliet 96, 127, 134–5, 137, 143, 168, 174, 181, 188–9
Stoppard, Tom 62, 97
Stubbes, Philip 62
Stubbs, Imogen 44
Suchet, David 168
Sullivan, Arthur 25
sumptuary laws 61–2
Suzman, Janet 65, 70, 74, 117, 153, 155, 161, 167
Swinton, Tilda 105, 200
Syal, Meera 55–6
The Taming of the Shrew 53–4
Taymor, Julie 203
The Tempest 3, 13, 47, 119, 182–4, 203–4, 217–18
Tennyson, Lord 25
Terry, Ellen 3, 9, 52, 100, 166
Terry, Michelle 58, 131–2, 176, 204
theatre as a metaphor for life 119, 177
Theocritus 16, 219
Thompson, Sophie 172
time, similes about 122–4
Touchstone 8, 16, 18, 66–7, 70, 80, 83–6, 115, 123, 130, 132, 138, 142–3, 148, 162, 189, 218–20, 223
Tree, Ellen 8, 88
Trollope, Anthony 116
Tudor rose 82, 109
Twelfth Night 29, 31, 42–7, 66, 112–13, 127, 178–9
Twelfth Night (film, 1996) 44
Twiggy 75, 187
Two Gentlemen of Verona 29–34, 44–5, 219
Under the Greenwood Tree 193–4
Viola (in Twelfth Night) 42–7, 66
Virgil 15–16, 219
Waldmann, Alex 81, 156, 161
West, Rebecca 116
Wilde, Oscar 9, 159, 196–7
William 16, 83, 223
William IV 4 151, 168–9
Woolf, Leonard 201
Woolf, Virginia 6, 154, 199–201
Williams, Clifford 167
Williams, Heathcote 183
Williams, Michael 167
The Winter’s Tale 47–8, 60, 156, 219
Winrerson, Jeanette 62–3, 202
Woffington, Peg 176, 191
women’s movement 100, 196
women’s status in relation to men’s 23, 63, 77, 151, 168–9
Woolf, Leonard 201
Woolf, Virginia 6, 154, 199–201
Yentl the Yeshiva Boy 201–2