St. John Ervine
St. John Greer Ervine (born December 28, 1883 in Belfast , † January 24, 1971 in London or Seaton ) was a British - Irish playwright and writer .
Life
Ervine emigrated to London in 1900 , where he wrote dramas and novels . Between 1915 and 1916 he was director of the Abbey Theater in Dublin , where his first stage works Mixed Marriage (1911), Jane Clegg (1914), Four Irish Plays (1914) and John Ferguson (1915) premiered . After these initially more important works from the Irish bourgeoisie, he later wrote less problematic social pieces such as Friends and relations (1947) and Private Enterprise (1948).
During the First World War he did his military service with the Royal Dublin Fusiliers and lost a leg in combat operations. After the war he began a career as a theater critic for daily newspapers such as The Observer and Morning Post .
In addition, he continued his writing career and wrote not only an autobiography called Some Impressions of My Elders (1922), but also the successful plays Anthony and Anna (1926) and The First Mrs Fraser (1929). He also worked in 1932 as a theater critic for the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC).
In 1933 he accepted a professorship in dramatic literature at Dublin University . In addition to the 1937 drama Robert's Wife , he wrote seven novels such as Changing Winds (1917) and The Foolish Lovers (1920) and numerous biographies such as the one about Charles Stewart Parnell (1928), the biography about George Bernard Shaw with the title George Bernard Shaw - His Life, Work And Friends was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in 1956 .
Web links and sources
- Biography ( Memento from July 14, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
- Biography (Britannica Online)
- St. John Ervine in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- MEYERS GROSSES PERSONENLEXIKON , Mannheim 1968, p. 393
- CHAMBER'S BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY , Edinburgh 2002, ISBN 0-550-10051-2 , p. 498
Individual evidence
- ↑ Mixed Marriage (theatredatabase.com)
- ↑ Free eBooks (manybooks.net)
- ↑ The Foolish Lovers (gutenberg.org)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ervine, St. John |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ervine, Saint John Greer (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Irish playwright, writer and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 28, 1883 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Belfast |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 24, 1971 |
| Place of death | unsure: Seaton or London |