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    Mark Rylance: why I had to tell the story of the genius who invented hospital hygiene

    Nineteenth-century Hungarian doctor derided for urging medics to wash their hands will be celebrated in new drama
    by Vanessa Thorpe Jun 13, 2020 3 minutes
    Rylance has a radical proposal for ‘staging’ Doctor Semmelweis this summer. Photograph: Andreas Rentz/Getty

    It was an “angry little book” telling the story of one of the great misunderstood pioneers of medicine that grabbed the attention of Mark Rylance, the Oscar-winning English actor. “I hadn’t known about Semmelweis, his work, or the tragic way he was oppressed by the medical authorities,” he said this weekend. “But then I picked up a copy of an old French biography, reprinted in translation by a friend of mine at Atlas Press, and found it very moving.”

    Now Ignaz Semmelweis, the groundbreaking 19th-century Hungarian doctor who discovered that invisible germs can convey deadly disease, will

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