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Granville Barker on Theatre

Selected Essays

By: Harley Granville Barker

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Granville Barker on Theatre

Selected Essays

By: Harley Granville Barker

Granville Barker on Theatre brings together some of the most important critical theatrical writings of Harley Granville Barker, a major figure of 20th-century British theatre. Known as a pioneer of the National Theatre and Repertory Movement, and remembered mainly for his Prefaces to Shakespeare, from the 1900s to his death in the 1940s Granville Barker commented enthusiastically in newspaper items, introductions to plays, articles, essays, articles, and published lectures on a range of topics: the nature of theatre as an art form and as a social medium, the need for ensemble playing in a repertory system, the relationship between the three chief constituents of theatre – the actor, the playwright and the audience. Granville Barker on Theatre makes available again these writings in which Barker dissects the state of theatre as he saw it, with coruscating critiques of the commercial system, the long run and censorship, the vitality of theatre outside Britain, and what he saw as the welcome renaissance of theatre in non-professional groups liberated from the profit motive. These writings show a master practitioner concerned with, above all, promoting a new type of drama; vital not only for its own sake but for the sake of the health of society at large.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1474294855

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9781474294850

Plays by Harley Granville Barker

The Marrying of Ann Leete, The Voysey Inheritance, Waste

By: Harley Granville-Barker

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The Marrying of Ann Leete, The Voysey Inheritance, Waste

By: Harley Granville-Barker

Harley Granville Barker, one of the most versatile figures in twentieth-century theatre, was the leader of the campaign to reform the English stage in the Edwardian period. His work as an actor, director, playwright, and manager set new standards of production and gave Shaw his first successful showings; his later career as a critic, after he abandoned the stage, opened new interpretations of Shakespeare and led the way to the establishment of a national theatre. This volume presents three of Granville Barker's best plays: The Marrying of Ann Leete (about a young woman rebelling against convention), The Voysey Inheritance (digging at middle-class hypocrisy), and Waste (banned by the Lord Chamberlain, the tragedy of a politician caught in a sexual trap). Written between 1899 and 1907, and collected here for the first time in a scholarly edition, they reveal Barker as an exciting, subtle and innovative dramatist.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521314070

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9780521314077

Plays by Harley Granville Barker

The Marrying of Ann Leete, The Voysey Inheritance, Waste

By: Harley Granville-Barker

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The Marrying of Ann Leete, The Voysey Inheritance, Waste

By: Harley Granville-Barker

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Cambridge University Press

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0521306426

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9780521306423

Waste

By: Harley Granville Barker

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Waste

By: Harley Granville Barker

A scandal half-stifled is worse than a scandal. One is at everybody's mercy. Backstage at a hung parliament, visionary Independent Henry Trebell is co-opted by the Tories to push through a controversial Bill. Pursuing his cause with missionary zeal, he's barely distracted by his brief affair with a married woman until she suffers a lethal backstreet abortion. Threatened by public scandal, the Establishment closes ranks and coolly seals the fate of an idealistic man. Famously banned by the censors in 1907, Harley Granville Barker's controversial masterpiece gathers a large ensemble to expose a cut-throat, cynical world of sex, sleaze and suicide amongst the political elite of Edwardian England. This edition was published for the National Theatre's revival in November 2015.

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130

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1474277403

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9781474277402

Macbeth

By: Harley Granville-Barker

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Macbeth

By: Harley Granville-Barker

This is one of a series of books that provide a guide to Shakespeare's plays. The prefaces include endorsements by both actors and directors.

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MIT Press

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1854591673

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9781854591678

King Lear

By: Harley Granville-Barker

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King Lear

By: Harley Granville-Barker

This is one of a series of books that provide a guide to Shakespeare's plays. The prefaces include endorsements by both actors and directors.

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148

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MIT Press

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1854591576

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9781854591579

Granville Barker on Theatre

Selected Essays

By: Harley Granville Barker

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Selected Essays

By: Harley Granville Barker

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Coriolanus

By: Harley Granville-Barker

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Coriolanus

By: Harley Granville-Barker

This is one of a series of books that provide a guide to Shakespeare's plays. The prefaces include endorsements by both actors and directors.

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MIT Press

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1854591916

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The Merchant of Venice

By: Harley Granville-Barker

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The Merchant of Venice

By: Harley Granville-Barker

Unrivalled practical insights into the play from one of the most influential actors and directors of Shakespeare of all time. This volume is in a handy pocket-sized format, perfect for use in the rehearsal room.

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Nick Hern Books

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1848420099

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9781848420090

Antony and Cleopatra

By: Harley Granville-Barker

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Antony and Cleopatra

By: Harley Granville-Barker

Unrivalled practical insights into the play from one of the most influential actors and directors of Shakespeare of all time.

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164

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Nick Hern Books

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185459186X

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9781854591869

"Richard Goes to Prison" and Other Stories

By: Harley Granville-Barker

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"Richard Goes to Prison" and Other Stories

By: Harley Granville-Barker

This book rescues from oblivion the seven known short stories of Harley Granville Barker and demonstrates the sometimes very close relationship between individual stories and one or another of Barker's plays written about the same time. Quite apart, however, from these considerations of the connections between his works in prose fiction and his dramatic pieces, the book seeks to examine the merits of the stories in their own right and to compare them with the work of other short-story writers of the same period, including Galsworthy, Lawrence, and Munro. Though his output in this genre was small, Barker is not dwarfed in this scintillating company. Eric Salmon is a theater historian and writer.

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154

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Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

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0838640257

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9780838640258

Book's by Harley Granville Barker

Granville Barker on Theatre

Granville Barker on Theatre

Plays by Harley Granville Barker

Plays by Harley Granville Barker

Plays by Harley Granville Barker

Plays by Harley Granville Barker

Waste

Waste

Macbeth

Macbeth

King Lear

King Lear

Granville Barker on Theatre

Granville Barker on Theatre

Coriolanus

Coriolanus

The Merchant of Venice

The Merchant of Venice

Antony and Cleopatra

Antony and Cleopatra

"Richard Goes to Prison" and Other Stories

"Richard Goes to Prison" and Other Stories

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