And other proper names mentioned in the film

1. Peter Brook, a world famous stage director,...

2. John Guilgud, Sir Laurence Olivier (b. 1907), Paul Scoffield -well-known English actors,...

3. Mahabharata, the Indian epic (mid. of the 1st century). The au­thorship is ascribed to Viasa, consists of 18 books. That's how, for example, The Himalayas are described in Mahabharata:

There is in the world a mountain, the steep-hilled Meru

In supermundane beauty, in unattainable space,

It glistens in a golden attire,

In the splendour of the sun glow her peaks,

Beasts abide there, grasses blossom there...

Its summit is adorned with pearls,

Its summit is hidden in clouds.

4. Chiswick, Bedford park - parts of London, inhabited by well-to-do people...

5. Oxford = Oxford University, (XII c),...

6. Love's Labour's Lost, King Lear, A Midsummer Night's Dream,...

7 Marat, Marat Jean Paul (1743-93) one of the leaders of the French revolution (1789-94), in P.Weiss's play he believes in man's perfectibility through...

8. Peter Weiss is a modern playwright, the author of...

9. Marquis de Sade (1740 -?) – a French writer, the general public had no access to his books till 1940. Notoriously known is his

«Les cent vingt journees de Sodome». In P. Weiss' play he is treated as a sensualist who believes in man's...

10. Samuel Beckett (1906-1989), an Irish writer of plays, novels and poetry, who lived in France and is best known for his play «Waiting for Godot», often seen as a leading exponent of the Theatre of the Absurd...

11. Shakespeare (1564-1616) -...

12. Elizabethian (epoch) - being or living in the period of Queen Elizabeth I of England (1533-1603)...

13. Zoroastrian (language), from zoroastrism, the religion spread in ancient and middle ages in Asia, Iran, Afganistan and other orien­tal countries. The main principles: the juxtapposition of the eternal beginnings - evil and goodness; the main ritual symbol - the fire,...