Harley Granville-Barker

Granville-Barker, Harley - 1877–1946, English dramatist, actor, producer, and critic. As comanager of the Court Theatre from 1904 to 1907 he was an advocate and producer of "uncommercial" and experimental theater in his time. Granville-Barker was the chief producer of the plays of new dramatists as well as those of the great masters; he presented the works of Euripides Read More...

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Harley Granville Barker: Man of the Theatre, Dramatist, and Scholar
by C. B. Purdom. 322 pgs.

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A Preface In the Form of a Dedication

Foreword

Acknowledgments

Contents

Illustrations

Part One Actor

Part Two Stage Producer

Part Three The Visit to America and The First World War

Part Four Writer

Epilogue

Appendices

Index
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Representative One-Act Plays by British and Irish Authors ("Rococo" by Harley Granville-Barker begins on p. 197)
by Barrett H. Clark. 477 pgs.

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The One-Act Play: In England and Ireland

The Widow of Wasdale Head

The Widow of Wasdale Head

The Goal

The Goal

Salome

Salome

The Man in the Stalls.

The Man in the Stalls

'Op-O'-Me-Thumb

'Op-O'-Me-Thumb

The Impertinence of The Creature

The Impertinence of the Creature

The Stepmother

The Stepmother

Rococo

Rococo

James and John

James and John

The Snow Man

The Snow Man

Fancy Free

Fancy Free

Lonesome-Like

Lonesome-Like

Miss Tassey

Miss Tassey

Makeshifts

Makeshifts

The Maker of Dreams

The Maker of Dreams

The Land of Heart's Desire

The Land of Heart's Desire

Riders to the Sea

Riders to the Sea

Spreading the News

Spreading the News

The Magnanimous Lover

The Magnanimous Lover

The Golden Doom

The Golden Doom

Bibliographical Notes
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Edwardian Theatre (Chap. XVII "Shaw, Galsworthy, and Granville-Barker)
by A. E. Wilson. 256 pgs.

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List of Illustrations

I: The Edwardian Scene

II: Theatreland as It Was

III: Days of Drawing-Room Comedy

IV: The Theatre in 1901

V: Sunset of Irving

VI: The Irving-Terry Partnership

VII: Tree and His Majesty's Theatre

VIII: Alexander and Other Actor-Managers

IX: More Popular Favourites

X: Touring Idols

XI: An Album of Fair Women Is a Massive Book One of My Most Treasured Possessions

XII: Pinero

XIII: Chiefly Henry Arthur Jones

XIV: Barrie, Maugham -- and Hall Caine

XV: The Poetic Drama

XVI: The Vedrenne-Barker Venture

XVII: Shaw, Galsworthy And Granville-Barker

XVIII: The Censorship Inquiry

XIX: "Choked with Musical Comedy"

XX: More Musical Comedy

XXI: Melodrama and Pantomime

XXII: L'Venvoi

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British Playwrights, 1880-1956: A Research and Production Sourcebook ("Harley Granville-Barker (1877-1946)" begins on p. 157)
by William W. Demastes, Katherine E. Kelly. 457 pgs.

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Bio-critical essays overview and assess the life and work of some 40 British playwrights active from 1880 through 1956.

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William Archer (1856-1924)

W. H. Auden (1907-1973)

Sir James Matthew Barrie (1860-1937)

Sir Max Beerbohm (1872-1956)

Gordon Bottomley (1874-1948)

James Bridie (Osborne Henry Mavor) (1888-1951)

Harold Brighouse (1882-1958)

Noël Coward (1899-1973)

Clemence Dane (Winifred Ashton) (1887-1965)

T. S. Eliot (1888-1965)

Christopher Fry (1907-)

John Galsworthy (1867-1933)

William Schwenck Gilbert (1836-1911)

Harley Granville-Barker (1877-1946)

Graham Greene (1904-1991)

Cicely Hamilton (1872-1952)

St. John Hankin (1869-1909)

W. Stanley Houghton (1881-1913)

Laurence Housman (1865-1959)

Henry Arthur Jones (1851-1929)

D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930)

John Masefield (1878-1967)

W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965)

Allan Monkhouse (1858-1936)

Arthur Wing Pinero (1855-1934)

J. B. Priestley (1894-1984)

Terence Rattigan (1911-1977)

Elizabeth Robins (1862-1952)

George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)

R. C. Sherriff (1896-1975)

Alfred Sutro (1863-1933)

Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

Selected Bibliography

Index of Names

Index of Titles

About the Editors and Contributors
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Directors on Directing: A Source Book of the Modern Theater ("Harley Granville-Barker (1877-1946)" begins on p. 198)
by Toby Cole, Helen Chinoy Krich. 464 pgs.

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Preface to the Revised Edition

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Illustrations

1: The Emergence of the Director

2: Vision and Method

3: The Director at Work

4: Staging Shakespeare: A Survey of Current Problems and Opinions

Bibliography

Index
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Understanding Romeo and Juliet: A Student Casebook to Issues, Sources, and Historical Documents ("From Harley Granville-Barker, Prefaces to Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar, and Lows Labour's Lost (1930)" begins on p. 131)
by Alan Hager. 248 pgs.

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The tragic love story of Romeo and Juliet has touched the hearts of young and old for nearly four hundred years. In this work, Alan Hager has compiled a rich collection of primary and contemporary materials ranging from information about the earliest performances of Romeo and Juliet to discussions of suicide in the 1990s. Designed to help students of the play, Understanding Romeo and Juliet highlights many different aspects of the play's context. Such aspects include a discussion about religions of love in the East and West, an examination of vendetta and collective violence, and an analysis of the play in the context of classical and medieval thought. Hager relates the work to issues as recent as the so-called Werther Syndrome (copycat suicide based on fictional models) and as remote as the notion of reincarnated love such as that of Rama and Sita in the Sanskrit epic Ramayana.

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Copyright Acknowledgments

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Preface

Acknowledgments

1: Analysis of Romeo and Juliet

Introduction

Suggested Readings

Introduction

2: Narrative Backgrounds to Romeo and Juliet

Notes

Suggested Readings

3: The Narrative Source of Romeo and Juliet

Introduction

Note

Suggested Readings

4: The Lyrical Source of Romeo and Juliet: Sir Philip Sidney and the Elizabethan Sonnet

Introduction

Notes

Suggested Readings

5: The Performance History of Romeo and Juliet

Introduction

Notes

Suggested Readings

Introduction

6: The Historical Context of Romeo and Juliet

Notes

Suggested Readings

Introduction

7: Romeo and Juliet in the 1990s

Notes

Suggested Readings

Glossary of Critical Terms and Names

Index

About the Author
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A Study of the Modern Drama: A Handbook for the Study and Appreciation of the Best Plays, European, English and American, of the Last Half Century ("H. Granville-Barker" begins on p. 280)
by Barrett H. Clark. 527 pgs.

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What This Book is and How to Use It

The Norwegian Drama

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The Danish Drama

The Swedish Drama

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The Russian Drama

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The German Drama

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The Austrian Drama

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The Hungarian Drama

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The French Drama

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The Belgian Drama

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The Dutch Drama

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The Italian Drama

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The Spanish Drama

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The English Drama

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The Irish Drama

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The American Drama

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The Yiddish Drama

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The Eighteen-Sixties: Essays by Fellows of the Royal Society of Literature ("Exit Planché -- Enter Gilbert" by Harley Granville-Barker begins on p. 102)
by John Drinkwater. 282 pgs.

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Introduction

Sir Henry Taylor

Arthur Hugh Clough

The Early Novels of Wilkie Collins

Exit PlanchÉ -- Enter Gilbert

Punch in the 'sixties

Historians in the 'sixties: A New Era

Eneas Sweetland Dallas

George Whyte-Melville

Science in the 'sixties

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