Achurch, Janet 19
Ackroyd, Peter 151
Adelaide, Queen 83
Agate, James 170
Aiglon, L’ (Rostand) 89
Albee, Edward 178
Alexander, George 9, 149
Ambassadors, The (Henry James) 11
Ambigu-Comique (Paris) 7
Amoureuse, L’ (Porto-Riche) 122
Anderson, Lindsay 175
Anderson, Mary 146–7, 148
Andromaque (Racine) 48, 52
Anouilh, Jean 159, 176
Antoine, André 104, 121, 122, 136
Antony and Cleopatra (Shakespeare) 159
Archer, William 126
Argyll Rooms 6
Arletty (Léonie Bathiat) 124
Arnold, Matthew 52, 145
Arnould, Auguste 67
Artaud, Antonin 162
As You Like It (Shakespeare) 58
Athalie (Racine) 175
Atlas, The 49, 74, 85
Augier, Emile 11, 66, 67, 79
Austen, Jane 41–2
Aventurière, L’ (Augier) 11, 66, 67, 68, 75, 77
Bailey, David 177
Bajazet (Racine) 48
Ballad of Reading Gaol, The (Wilde) 147, 154
Balmain, Pierre 167, 177
Balzac, Honoré de 143
Bancroft, Squire and Lady 99, 104, 110
Banville, Théodore de 91
Barber, John 168
Barbier de Séville, Le (Beaumarchais) 96
Barrault, Jean-Louis 159, 162–5, 175, 177
Bashkirtseff, Marie 101
Bastien-Lepage, Jules 141
Bataille, George 166
Bataille, Henri 137
Bates, Alan 172
Baudelaire, Charles 91, 94, 143
Bayard, Jean-François-Alfred 88
Beardsley, Aubrey 23, 117, 128–31, 149
Beaumarchais (Pierre-Augustin Caron) 89, 96
Beaumont, Hugh ‘Binkie’ 176
Beckett, Samuel 165
Becque, Henri 122, 133–4, 162
Bell, Marie 21, 171
Béranger, Pierre-Jean 88
Bérard, Christian 163
Bérat, Frédéric 88
Berlioz, Hector 25, 72
Bernhardt, Sarah 10, 13, 18–19, 21, 22, 23, 45, 63, 77–9, 80–1, 89–90, 99–101, 103, 116, 118, 135, 136, 138–58, 161, 162, 166–7, 169, 170, 176
Bernstein, Henri 137
Bertrand, Arthur 87
Besnard, Albert 202
Beyle, Marie-Henri – see Stendhal
Birthday Party, The (Pinter) 178
Bloom, Claire 176–8
Bonaparte à l’école de Brienne (de Villeneuve and Masson) 87
Bondois (régisseur of the Meynadier company) 101, 111
Bonne Vielle, La (Béranger) 88
Boswell, Robert Bruce 172
Bouffé, Hugues-Désiré 8
Brahms, Caryl 168, 170
Brieux, Eugène 134
Britannicus (Racine) 76
Brontë, Charlotte 22, 52–7, 61, 63
Brook, Peter 176
Bruant, Aristide 118
Bulwer, Edward (Bulwer-Lytton) 88
Caesar and Cleopatra (Shaw) 159
Camus, Albert 159
Carmen (Bizet) 118
Carr, Alice Comyns 13
Carr, Joe Comyns 13, 18, 125
Carrington, Charles 19
Casino de Paris 153
Chahut, le 131–2, 136
Champmeslé, Marie Desmares 4, 180
Charcot, Jean-Martin 19
Clairin, Georges 146
Clairon, Hippolyte 4, 14, 170, 180
Clarétie, Jules 116
Claudel, Paul 159, 162
Cocteau, Jean 159, 162
Collins, Wilkie 70, 99, 104
Colombe (Anouilh) 176
Colour Theory 147
Comédie-Française 2, 6, 7, 8, 9–12, 14, 27, 64, 67, 77, 79, 87, 89, 99, 113, 116, 140, 153, 159, 162, 182
Commune, The Paris 9, 23, 79, 89, 102, 112–14, 118, 122
Conder, Charles 144, 201
Congreve, William 28
Coningsby (Disraeli) 52
Consuelo (Sand) 54
Copyright Act (1852) 86
Coquelin, Constant 136
Corinne (de Staël) 54
Corneille, Pierre 17, 48, 112
Course du flambeau, La (Hervieu) 135
Course of Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature (Schlegel) 31
Covent Garden Theatre 5, 7, 88, 95
Coward, Noel 176
Crabb Robinson, Henry 73
Cresset, Louis Jean-Baptiste 82
Croizette, Sophie 77–8, 80
Cromwell (Hugo) 145, 146
Cross-dressing 89–91, 96. Also see Travesti
D’Arcy, Ella 123
D’Egout, Grille 131
D’Este, Madame 83
Daily Chronicle, The 125
Daily Express, The 168
Dame aux camélias, La (Dumas fils) 19, 21, 77, 94, 102, 103, 105, 162, 167–9, 176, 177
Daubeny, Peter 168, 171
Daudet, Alphonse 122
Day after the Wedding, The (De Camp) 72
De Beauvoir, Simone 206
De Camp, Marie-Thérèse 72
De l’amour (Stendhal) 34, 41, 44
De Staël, Madame 54
Déjazet, Virginie 8, 12, 22–3, 82–98, 108
Delacroix, Eugène 25, 72
Delaney, Shelagh 169, 178
Delicate Balance, A (Albee) 178
Demi-Monde, Le (Dumas fils) 11, 102, 103
Desclée, Aimée 13, 18–19, 21, 22, 23, 77, 79, 99–118, 167, 176
Dexter, John 168, 174, 178
Diane de Lys (Dumas fils) 102, 103
Dickens, Charles 3, 8, 22, 23, 70–1, 76
Dictionnaire historique et pittoresque du Théâtre (Pougin) 67, 87
Diderot, Denis 14, 71, 183
Disciple, The (Wilde) 153–4
Disraeli, Benjamin 22, 50–2, 61, 63, 67
Doche, Eugénie 8, 77
Doll’s House, A (Ibsen) 78, 106, 122, 178
Donne, John 167
Dramatic Copyright Act (1833) 85
Druot, Juliette 143
Drury Lane 3, 8
Duchess of Padua, The (Wilde) 145–7, 148
Dudley, Lord 98
Duel of Angels (Giraudoux) 176–7
Duke of York’s Theatre 161
Dumas fils, Alexandre 11–12, 23, 79, 80, 94, 99, 102–3, 111–12, 114–17, 118, 162, 167–9
Dumas père, Alexandre 12, 27, 42, 43, 44
Dumesnil, Marie-Françoise 14, 183
Duquesnel, Félix 101
Duse, Eleonora 101, 118, 168
Duval, Alexandre 67
Eagle with Two Heads, The (Cocteau) 159, 162
Edinburgh Festival 161
Eliot, George 22, 44, 57–63, 75
Elizabeth the First, Queen 138
Emma (Austen) 41–2
Enfants du paradis, Les (dir. Carné) 175
Eroticism (Bataille) 166
Etrangère, L’ (Dumas fils) 112, 116
Evans, Edith 168
Faucit, Helen 9, 58–61, 71–3
Fausses Confidences, Les (Marivaux) 27, 34, 67, 161
Fechter, Charles 70, 87
Fédora (Sardou) 145, 148
Femme de Claude, La (Dumas fils) 99, 103, 114–17
Festival of Britain 159
Feuillère, Edwige 9, 21, 22, 24, 159–79
Feydeau, Georges 176
Fille d’honneur, La (Duval) 65, 67
Forain, Jean-Louis 202
Forbes-Robertson, Johnston 140
Franco-Prussian war 79, 114, 116
Freud, Sigmund 17, 38, 78
Froufrou (Meilhac and Halévy) 19, 23, 77, 78, 99, 102, 103, 105–11, 112
Fry, Christopher 176
Gaiety Theatre (London) 9
Gaîeté Theatre (Paris) 7
Galeries-Saint-Hubert (Brussels) 102
Gance, Abel 162
Garber, Marjorie 96
Garrick, David 1, 5, 13–15
Gautier, Théophile 42, 43, 73, 143–5, 147
Genet, Jean 165
Gentil-Bernard (Dumanoir) 98
George, Mlle 6, 12, 15–16, 25
Germinie Lacerteux (Edmond and Jules Goncourt) 23, 118, 119–21, 135
Gielgud, John 167, 169
Giraudoux Joan 159, 162, 176, 178
Globe Theatre 19
Goncourt, Edmond and Jules 23, 118, 119–21, 135, 137
Great Gatsby, The (Scott Fitzgerald) 151
Gueule de loup (Léon Laya) 103
Guilbert, Yvette 118, 135
Guinness, Alec 167
Gymnase Theatre (Paris) 7, 10, 87, 101, 102, 104, 113, 114
Hading, Jane 19, 21
Hamlet (Shakespeare) 9, 25, 72, 90, 154
Harcourt, Lord 5
Hare, David 151
Harland, Henry 123
Harris, Frank 19
Harrison, Tony 174
Hartnell, Norman 169
Harvey, Laurence 169
Haymarket Theatre (London) 1, 5, 99
Hazlitt, William 15–16, 22, 35–40, 45, 46
Hedda Gabler (Ibsen) 80, 106, 178
Henri III (Dumas père) 12, 43
Henry IV (Shakespeare) 72
Hepburn, Katharine 178
Her Majesty’s Theatre 8
Herlie, Eileen 159
Hernani (Hugo) 42, 77, 141–2, 144, 145, 149
Hervieu, Paul 135
Histoire du Romantisme, L’ (Gautier) 144
History of the Commune (Lissagaray) 113
Hobson, Harold 24, 159–68, 172
Hollingshead, John 9–11
Home (Robertson) 75
Horace (Corneille) 17, 48
Hôtel d’Alsace 152
Hôtel Voltaire 143
Hughes, Ted 175
Hugo, Victor 22, 23, 27, 42, 43–4, 63, 77, 79, 141, 143–5, 147, 148–9
Hullah, John 8
Ibsen, Henrik 18–19, 78, 101, 179
Idées de Madame Aubray, Les (Dumas fils) 80
Indiana et Charlemagne (Bayard and Dumanoir) 95–6, 108
Intentions (Wilde) 148
Irving, Henry 13, 125–6
James, Henry 1, 5, 11, 12, 13, 22, 45, 64–70, 75, 77, 80–1, 86, 89, 99, 168
Jane Eyre (Brontë) 53, 55
Jarry, Alfred 117
Jeu de l’amour et du hasard, Le (Marivaux) 27
Joconde, La (Regnier) 70
John, Augustus 201
Kemble, Charles 25
Kemble, Fanny 6, 45, 82–5, 90
Kemble, John Philip 6
King of Portugal 136
King’s Theatre 6, 7
Labisse, Félix 163
Lady Windermere’s Fan (Wilde) 149
Langtry, Lillie 138, 141
Laporte, Pierre 7
Leader, The 54
Lecouvreur, Adrienne 4, 180
Leigh, Vivien 24, 159, 168–9, 176–8
Leighton, Margaret 168
Leighton, Sir Frederick 18
Lemaître, Frédérick 8, 12, 70, 89
Les Mains de Jeanne-Marie (Rimbaud) 117–18
Lewes, G. H. 43–4, 48–50, 52–8, 71, 87, 105, 170
Liber Amoris (Hazlitt) 38
Lisette de Béranger, La (Bérat) 88
Lissagaray, Prosper Olivier 113, 118
Littlewood, Joan 169
London Coliseum 153
London Magazine, The 39
Look after Lulu (Coward) 176
Look Back in Anger (Osborne) 178
Lord Chamberlain 5, 79, 104, 148
Lorenzaccio (de Musset) 90–1
Louis-Philippe 27
Lowell, Robert 175
Lucrèce Borgia (dir. Gance) 162
Lyceum Theatre (London) 125
Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith 160
Ma Cousine (Meilhac) 122, 130–2, 134
Macbeth (Shakespeare) 72
Macready, William Charles 6, 9, 17, 25, 58, 60–1, 67, 71–3
Madame Favart (Xavier and Masson) 93
Madame Sans-Gêne (Sardou) 23, 118, 122, 123, 124–8, 134, 135
Mademoiselle d’Angeville (Villeneuve and de Livry) 93
Madwoman of Chaillot, The (Giraudoux) 178
Maeterlinck, Maurice 137, 148–9, 166
Mahatma Gandhi Hall 172
Mahon, Derek 150, 175
Man and Wife (Collins) 99
Man of Destiny, The (Shaw) 126
Manet, Edouard 105
Mariage de Figaro, Le (Beaumarchais) 8, 27, 29, 34, 67, 73, 89, 162
Marion de Lorme (Hugo) 43, 44, 147, 148
Marivaux, Pierre 27, 29, 32, 34, 75, 76, 161
Marquis de Lauzan, Le (Carmouche and Vermond) 91
Mars, Mlle 6–7, 17, 22, 25–45, 67, 68, 70, 73, 74, 76–7, 139, 141–2
Marseillaise, La (Rouget de l’Isle) 98
Martin, Theodore 59
Marx, Karl 113
Mathews, Charles 86
Mayer, Gaston 136
Meilhac, Henri 19, 122, 130
Meilhac, Henri and Halévy, Ludovic 78–9, 99, 106
Mélingue, Etienne Marin 12
Messalina 117
Meunier, Dauphin 123, 128
Meynadier Company 101, 102, 111
Misanthrope, Le (Molière) 12, 27, 31–2, 35–6, 42, 64, 74–5
Misérables, Les (Hugo) 143
Miss Julie (Strindberg) 135
Mitchell, John 8–9, 67, 70, 72, 193
Modjeska, Helena 19, 138
Molière, Jean-Baptiste 6, 21, 27, 29–32, 64, 75, 76
Monnet, Jean-Louis 5
Monsieur Garat (Sardou) 96–8
Montansier, La (Caillavet et al.) 132
Montigny, Lemoine 101, 102, 104–5, 111, 113
Morgan, Lady (née Sydney Owenson) 29–31, 41, 43
Morning Post, The 88, 107, 110
Napoleon Bonaparte 27, 87, 94, 98, 124
Napoleon III (Louis-Napoleon) 70, 94, 95, 98, 142
New Magdalen, The (Collins) 104
New York Tribune, The 86
Nicholas Nickleby (Dickens) 3, 70
Nouveautés Theatre (Paris) 87
O’Toole, Peter 175
Occupe-toi d’Amélie (Feydeau) 176
Odéon Theatre (Paris) 121
Oiseau bleu, L’ (Maeterlinck) 137
Old Vic Company 159
Olivier, Laurence 159, 167, 176
On Actors and the Art of Acting (Lewes) 49, 63
On Golden Pond (dir. Mark Rydell) 178
Opera Comique (London) 98
Opéra-Comique (Paris) 5
Ophuls, Max 162
Osborne, John 176
Othello (Shakespeare) 42, 72
Ours (Robertson) 104
Palace Theatre 172
Palais-Royal Theatre (Paris) 7, 10, 88, 89, 91, 162
Pall Mall Gazette, The 49, 58, 62
Paradoxe sur le comédien, Le (Diderot) 14, 183
Paris Exhibition 154
Parisienne, La (Becque) 19, 122, 133–4, 162, 176
Partage de Midi (Claudel) 159–66
Pasta (Madame Giuditta) 37
Patience (Gilbert and Sullivan) 142
Patrie en Danger, La (Goncourts) 121
Paulin, Tom 35
Pen and Pencil Club (Paris) 145
Perlet 8
Perrin, Emile 10
Phaedra Britannica (Harrison) 174
Phèdre (Racine) 48, 77, 136, 141, 146, 169–75, 176
Phillips, Adam 32–3
Pipe, La (Baudelaire) 91
Place du Châtelet 152
Planché, J. R. 86
Plays and Players 168
Plessy, Madame Arnould 8, 10, 17, 22, 45, 64–81
Poe, Edgar Allan 143
Poems (Wilde) 148
Porel, Paul 124
Porte-Saint-Martin (Paris) 7
Porto-Riche, Georges de 122
Pougin (Arthur) 67, 90
Pour Lucrèce (Giraudoux) 176
Premières armes de Figaro, Les (Sardou) 96
Premières armes de Richelieu, Les (Bayard and Dumanoir) 88, 89, 98
Prince of Wales Theatre (London) 104
Princess’s Theatre (London) 19, 99
Princesse Georges, La (Dumas fils) 99, 102, 114
Proust, Marcel 121, 137
Rachel Félix 2, 8, 9, 10, 12, 13, 16–17, 18, 22, 25, 45, 46–63, 67, 70, 71, 74, 77, 98, 112, 119, 122, 139, 141, 146, 170
Racine et Shakespeare (Stendhal) 34, 46
Racine, Jean 30, 46–8, 50, 52, 76, 112, 141, 169–75
Ranthorpe (Lewes) 54–5
Rattigan, Terence 168
Rawlings, Margaret 172–5
Rebellato, Dan 175
Regnard, Jean François 34
Regnier, François Joseph 70
Réjane, Gabrielle 19, 21, 22, 23, 119–37, 161, 162, 176
Renaud, Madeleine 161, 176
Renaud-Barrault Company 9, 159–60
Retrospects of Actors (Lewes) 49, 58, 62
Richelieu (Bulwer-Lytton) 88
Richelieu, Cardinal 94, 147
Ricketts, Charles 138
Ricks, Christopher 175
Rimbaud, Arthur 117–18
Ring around the Moon (Anouilh) 176
Robb, Graham 145
Robe rouge, La (Brieux) 134, 135
Robertson, T. W. 75, 104
Rodd, Rennell 142, 144
Rolland, Romain 124
Roman Spring of Mrs Stone, The (Williams) 178
Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare) 72
Roots (Wesker) 178
Rose Chéri 8, 21, 101, 116
Rose, Blanche and Violet (Lewes) 54–6
Ross, Robert 150
Rossini (Gioacchino) 39
Rostand, Edmond 89
Rothenstein, William 144
Royalty Theatre (London) 3, 136
Ruy Blas (Hugo) 141, 147, 148
Salomé (Wilde) 148–9, 150
Salvini, Tommaso 63
Samson, Joseph, Isidore 12
Sand, George 54, 91
Sans lendemain (dir. Ophuls) 162
Sapho (Daudet) 122
Sarcey, Francisque 76, 114
Sardou, Victorien 96, 118, 122, 123, 124–5, 145
Sartre, Jean Paul 159
Scandale, Un (Duvert and Lauzanne) 93
Schechner, Richard 21
Schlegel, Augustus William 31
Scott Fitzgerald, F. 151
Scott, Clement 2–3, 18, 99
Scott, Sir Walter 6
Scribe, Eugène 27, 28–9, 67, 87
Semiramis (Voltaire) 16
Senelick, Laurence 90
‘Shakespeare and Stage Costume’ (Wilde) 147
Shakespeare, William 28, 46–8, 58, 71, 145, 173, 174, 177. Also see under individual plays
Shaw, Bernard 115, 126
Sherard, Robert H. 140, 201, 202
Shirley (Brontë) 54, 55
Shulman, Milton 168
Siddons, Sarah 15, 86
Siege of London, The (Henry James) 11
Smithson, Harriet 25, 42, 72
smoking on stage 91–3
Sodome et Gomorrhe (Giraudoux) 162
‘Sonnet to Liberty’ (Wilde) 143
Sorel, Cécile 12, 21, 24, 137, 153
Spanish Gypsy, The (Eliot) 58
Speaker, The 136
Spectator, The 31, 79
Sphinx, The (Wilde) 143
St James Theatre 8–9, 10, 19, 57, 67, 70, 82, 159, 161, 177
Star, The 134
Stendhal (Marie-Henri Beyle) 22, 34–5, 39–40, 41, 44, 45
Stoppard, Tom 151
Streetcar named Desire, A (Williams) 169, 177
Strindberg, August 19, 135
Sunday Times, The 159, 167
Sweet Bird of Youth (Williams) 178
Swinburne, Algernon Charles 143, 145
Symons, Arthur 23, 122, 126, 130, 132, 134
Talma, Hippolyte 5–6, 71
Taming of the Shrew, The (Shakespeare) 72
Tancred (Disraeli) 50–2, 57, 61
Tartuffe (Molière) 8, 27, 30–1, 67, 74–5
Taste of Honey, A (Delaney) 169, 178
Terry, Ellen 19, 125–6, 138
The Downfall (Zola) 116
The Theatre Now (Hobson) 161
Théâtre de l’Œuvre, Le 150
Théâtre Déjazet (Paris) 89, 96
Théâtre du Châtelet (Paris) 113
Théâtre Libre, Le 104, 121, 122, 134
Théâtre Lyrique (Paris) 9, 113
Theatre Regulation Act (1843) 86
Théâtre Réjane (Paris) 137
Théâtre Sarah Bernhardt (Paris) 153
Theatre Workshop 169
Théâtre-Historique 3
Thiers, Adolphe 105
Times, The 31, 132
Tisbé (Hugo) 44
Tosca (Sardou) 150
Toulouse-Lautrec, Henri-Marie-Raymond de 126–7, 149
Tourette, Gilles de la 111
Tragic Muse, The (Henry James) 11, 64–70, 75, 80
Travesti 87, 88, 90–1. Also see Cross-dressing
Tree, Herbert Beerbohm 149
Triolet bleu, Le (Devilleneuve and Masson) 93
Trollope, Mrs 45
Turnell, Martin 171
Tynan, Kenneth 166, 167, 170, 172
Uzanne, Octave 202
Valérie (Scribe) 27, 28–9, 32, 33, 34, 42
Variation on a Theme (Rattigan) 169
Variétés (Paris) 7, 10, 87, 89, 91
Vaudeville Theatre (Paris) 6, 7, 87, 101
Vaudevilles 87, 91
Vera (Wilde) 146
Vertpré, Jenny 8
Vert-Vert (De Leuven and De Forges) 82–5, 87, 88, 90
Vestris, Madame 8, 86, 87, 96
Vicomte de Létorières, Le (Bayard and Dumanoir) 91
Victoria, Queen 138
Vigny, Alfred de 42
Villette (Brontë) 52–7
Visite de Noces, Une (Dumas fils) 102, 111
Vitu, Auguste 77
Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet) 144
Waiting for Godot (Beckett) 178
Waller, Mrs Lewis 202
Watteau, Antoine 23
Wedekind, Frank 19
Wedmore, Frederick 80
Weightman, John 171, 175
Wesker, Arnold 178
Whewell, Professor William 82–5, 90
Wilde, Lady (Jane Francesca Wilde) 143
Wilde, Oscar 13, 19, 23, 128, 138–58, 201
Williams, Tennessee 169, 178
Williams, W. S. 55
Winter’s Tale, The (Shakespeare) 58–61
Woman of No Importance, A (Wilde) 149
World Theatre Season 171
Yellow Book, The 123–4, 126, 128, 130, 131, 135
Zaza (Berton and Simon) 132–3, 134
Zeldin, Theodore 40, 95
Zola, Emile 78, 99, 104, 116