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SYDNEY Sir Philip 1554–86 English poet Scenery and Lighting TASHMAN Lilyan 1900–34 American actress Ambition TALMADGE Norma 1897–1957 American actress Fans TAYLOR Elizabeth 1932–2011 British-born American actress and film star (National Velvet, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof ) Actors – Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor TEMPEST Dame Marie (Mary Susan Etherington) 1864–1942 English actress Actors – Marie Tempest TENNYSON Alfred, Lord 1809–1902 English poet Playwrights – Ben Jonson TERRY Dame Ellen 1847–1928 English actress; her partnership with Henry Irving at the Lyceum dominated London theatre in the late 19th century Advice; Beginnings (Olivier); Irving; Shakespeare’s Plays – Macbeth; G. B. Shaw; Star Quality; Technique THOMAS Dylan 1914–53 Welsh poet (Under Milk Wood) G. B. Shaw THORNDIKE Dame Sybil 1882–1976 British actress who played the title role in the first production of Shaw’s St. Joan Actors; Actors – Sybil Thorndike; Ellen Terry TOLSTOY Count Leo Nikolayevich 1828–1910 Russian novelist (War and Peace) and philosopher Censorship; Chekhov; Critical Abuse – plays; Shakespeare TREE, Sir Herbert Beerbohm 1853– 1917 English actormanager, half brother of Max Beerbohm; Tree was a flamboyant character actor and keen rival of Henry Irving Advice; Bad Habits; Clubs; Directors; Fame; Playwrights; Shakespeare’s Plays – Hamlet; G. B. Tree TREE Lady Helen (Maud) 1863–1937 English actress most successful in comic roles. Married to Herbert Beerbohm Tree Technique TREWIN J(ohn) C(ourtenay) 1908–90 British theatre critic for the Observer Failure; Vivien Leigh TRINDER Tommy 1909–89 British comedian Pantomime TROLLOPE Frances 1780–1863 English novelist/travel writer; mother of Anthony Trollope Shakespeare TROUGHTON Patrick 1920–87 British actor 208
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Acting TURNER Michael R. British writer Method Acting TUTIN Dorothy 1930–2001 English actress Technique TWAIN Mark (Samuel Langhorne Clemens) 1835–1910 American writer (Huckleberry Finn) and wit Comedy TWIGGY (Lesley Hornby) b. 1949 British actress and model The Press TYNAN Kenneth Peacock 1927– 80 Innovative British theatre critic who worked closely with Olivier at the National Theatre Actors; Actors – Katherine Cornell, Orson Welles; Noël Coward; Critics; Critics – Tynan; Gielgud; Insults; Vivien Leigh; Olivier; Playwrights; Playwrights – Congreve; Shakespeare’s Plays – Macbeth; Theatre USTINOV Sir Peter 1921–2004 British actor/writer of Russian descent Comedy; Critics; First Nights; Playwrights – Brecht; Shakespeare URE Mary 1933–75 British actress Actors VAN ANDA Carl 1864–1945 American journalist. Editor of the New York Times Critics – A. Woollcott VANBRUGH Sir John 1664–1726 English architect and playwright (The Relapse, The Provok’d Wife) Playwrights – Vanbrugh VAUGHAN William 1577–1641 English poet and colonial pioneer Playwrights – Marlowe QUEEN VICTORIA 1819–1901 Queen of Great Britain and Ireland 1837–1901 Censorship; Irving; Shakespeare’s Plays – King Lear VOLTAIRE Francis Marie Arouet de 1694–1778 French writer and philosopher Censorship; Playwrights – Congreve, Vanbrugh ; Shakespeare; Shakespeare’s Plays – Hamlet; Theatre WALDORF Willela fl. 1940s American theatre critic for the New York Post Insults WALLER Edmund 1606–87 English poet Audiences WALPOLE Horace 1717–97 English novelist (Castle of Otranto) and letter writer Opprobrium WARDLE Irving b. 1929 British theatre critic for The Times 209

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SYDNEY Sir Philip 1554–86

English poet Scenery and Lighting

TASHMAN Lilyan 1900–34

American actress Ambition TALMADGE Norma 1897–1957

American actress Fans TAYLOR Elizabeth 1932–2011

British-born American actress and film star (National Velvet, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof ) Actors – Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor TEMPEST Dame Marie (Mary

Susan Etherington) 1864–1942 English actress Actors – Marie Tempest TENNYSON Alfred, Lord

1809–1902 English poet Playwrights – Ben Jonson TERRY Dame Ellen 1847–1928

English actress; her partnership with Henry Irving at the Lyceum dominated London theatre in the late 19th century Advice; Beginnings (Olivier); Irving; Shakespeare’s Plays – Macbeth; G. B. Shaw; Star Quality; Technique THOMAS Dylan 1914–53

Welsh poet (Under Milk Wood) G. B. Shaw THORNDIKE Dame Sybil

1882–1976 British actress who played the title role in the first production of Shaw’s St. Joan Actors; Actors – Sybil Thorndike; Ellen Terry TOLSTOY Count Leo

Nikolayevich 1828–1910 Russian novelist (War and Peace) and philosopher Censorship; Chekhov; Critical Abuse – plays; Shakespeare TREE, Sir Herbert Beerbohm

1853– 1917 English actormanager, half brother of Max Beerbohm; Tree was a flamboyant character actor and keen rival of Henry Irving Advice; Bad Habits; Clubs; Directors; Fame; Playwrights; Shakespeare’s Plays – Hamlet; G. B. Tree TREE Lady Helen (Maud)

1863–1937 English actress most successful in comic roles. Married to Herbert Beerbohm Tree Technique TREWIN J(ohn) C(ourtenay)

1908–90 British theatre critic for the Observer Failure; Vivien Leigh TRINDER Tommy 1909–89

British comedian Pantomime TROLLOPE Frances 1780–1863

English novelist/travel writer; mother of Anthony Trollope Shakespeare TROUGHTON Patrick 1920–87

British actor

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