Populaire contrasted with “popular,”, 10

postmodernism, ix, 1–2, 5, 35, 54, 84

and history, 5

Postlewait, Thomas (American theatre historian), 5

Prototype theory, 133n11

inappropriate use of, 133n11

Pulitzer, Ralph (American newspaper publisher), 47, 49

Rattigan, Terence, 115–116, 118, 128

Reinhardt, Max, 9, 86–89, 108–109

Renan, Ernest, 15, 27

concept of la patrie, 15

Richelieu, Armand-Jean du Plessis cardinal de, 84

Robeson, Paul, 25–26, 136n34

Rogoff, Gordon (American theatre writer), 53–54, 141n76, 142n82

misreading of Nathan, 142n82

Rorem, Ned (American composer), 150n189

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 4, 13–14, 17, 32, 133n10

Sarcey, Françisque (French critic), 60–61

Savran, David, 135n26

Schaper Rüdiger, 92

Schechner, Richard, 2

Schratt, Katharina (Austrian actress), 101–102, 104

Shaw, George Bernard, 55, 75, 113, 115–116, 118

Sherwood, Robert E., 44, 46, 56, 58–59, 62–63, 139n60

Shubert Brothers, 48–49

The Smart Set, 49

Sonnenthal, Adolf von (Austrian actor), 85, 98, 100–104, 109

anti-Semitism victim of, 102, 104

Strauss, Richard, 95

taxonomy, 4–5, 12, 133n11

Taylor, John Russell (English critic), 117

Taylor, Laurette, inspiration for Judith Bliss in Hay Fever, 120

Terwin, Johanna (German actress, married to Moissi), 92–93

Theatre Arts Monthly, 47–48

Thimig family of actors, 109

Tirana, Albania, 88–90, 92–93

Tree, Herbert Beerbohm, 69, 71

Trow, George W. S., 140n66

on vanished world of genteel liberal journalism, 140n66

Tynan, Kenneth, 43, 113–114, 141n75

Variety, 62

Vico, Giambattista, 11–12