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Zhao’s so laser-focused on marrying Shakespeare’s true tragedy with his fictional one that there’s barely any honesty left in the margins.

There his mother met and married an Englishman, a Major Kenneth Stoppard, before moving to England.

His mother later married a British officer and the family relocated to England, where young Stoppard took his stepfather’s surname and “put on Englishness like a coat,” he later said.

Then she married British Army Major Kenneth Stoppard, who gave the family a new surname and moved them to England in 1946.

There his mother met and married an Englishman, a Major Stoppard.