Harley Granville-Barker

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Harley Granville-Barker

Harley Granville-Barker (born November 25, 1877 in London as Harley Granville Barker , † August 31, 1946 in Paris ) was a British playwright , theater director , theater director and actor .

Life

Harley Granville Barker was born in London on November 25, 1877. From 1892 he was an actor on the theater stage.

In 1900 he joined the Elizabethan Stage Society and from 1904 headed the Royal Court Theater with John Eugene Vedrenne , where he had plays by Henrik Ibsen , Maurice Maeterlinck and George Bernard Shaw staged. He was best known for his Shakespeare productions.

He also produced numerous pieces written by himself, such as The Voysey Inheritance (1905), Prunella (1906), Waste (1907) and The Madras House (1910).

Granville-Barker worked for the Red Cross during the First World War . After the war he was elected President of the British Drama League . He later settled in Paris with his second wife, an American. In the following years he and his wife translated numerous Spanish stage plays.

From 1923 he began writing his multi-part series Prefaces to Shakespeare , which appeared between 1927 and 1948. The series is considered an important work of Shakespeare criticism.

After the beginning of the western campaign , Granville-Barker fled with his family via Spain to the United States in 1940, where he worked for the British Information Services and lectured at Harvard University . In 1946 he returned to Paris, where he died shortly afterwards.

literature

  • Eric Salmon (Ed.): Granville Barker and His Correspondents: A Selection of Letters by Him and to Him. Wayne State University Press, 1986, ISBN 978-0814317549
  • Dennis Kennedy: Plays by Harley Granville Barker: The Marrying of Ann Leete, The Voysey Inheritance, Waste. Cambridge University Press, 2009, ISBN 978-0521314077

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g Harley Granville-Barker at imagi-nation.com, accessed on August 29, 2013
  2. ↑ a b Harley Granville-Barker at theatredatabase.com, accessed August 29, 2013
  3. ↑ Harley Granville-Barker at shakespeare-navigators.com, accessed August 29, 2013
personal data
SURNAME Granville-Barker, Harley
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Granville Barker, Harley
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British playwright, theater director, theater director and actor
DATE OF BIRTH November 25, 1877
PLACE OF BIRTH London , UK
DATE OF DEATH August 31, 1946
Place of death Paris , France