Author: Harley Granville-Barker
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780854300853
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
"The name of Harley Granville Barker is well known both in the theatre industry, where his plays continue to be performed, and in academic study of drama and theatre, especially Shakespeare studies. However, because almost no attention has been paid to an archive which the British Library purchased in the late 1990s, work published on him has been inaccurate about his beliefs, his most personal feelings, and the major career change in his life. This archive consists mainly of correspondence between Barker and Helen Huntington, whom he met in 1914 and who became his second wife in 1918. These letters tell us about the early years of their relationship as well as what they read, discussed, and planned. This book presents extended extracts from the Barker-Huntington correspondence together with unfamiliar short essays and some interviews which were published in American newspapers. These cover topics such as teh future of American theatre, uses of drama with children with learning difficulties, eurhythmics and the origins of theatre. Meticulously edited and fully annotated, the primary texts are accompanied by a pair of contextualising essays about Helen Huntington. The first looks at the private lives and crises of those involved in the break-up of Granville Barker's marriage to his first wife, Lillah McCarthy. Reconsidering McCarthy's actions, this essay also suggests that Huntington was abused by her husband, from whom Barker rescued her. A second essay addresses the portrayal of Helen Huntington as a theatre-hating woman who ruined Barker's caeer. In fact she was a regulare theatre-goer, a writer and Barker's eventual collaborator"--Back cover.
The Unknown Granville Barker
Author: Harley Granville-Barker
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780854300853
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
"The name of Harley Granville Barker is well known both in the theatre industry, where his plays continue to be performed, and in academic study of drama and theatre, especially Shakespeare studies. However, because almost no attention has been paid to an archive which the British Library purchased in the late 1990s, work published on him has been inaccurate about his beliefs, his most personal feelings, and the major career change in his life. This archive consists mainly of correspondence between Barker and Helen Huntington, whom he met in 1914 and who became his second wife in 1918. These letters tell us about the early years of their relationship as well as what they read, discussed, and planned. This book presents extended extracts from the Barker-Huntington correspondence together with unfamiliar short essays and some interviews which were published in American newspapers. These cover topics such as teh future of American theatre, uses of drama with children with learning difficulties, eurhythmics and the origins of theatre. Meticulously edited and fully annotated, the primary texts are accompanied by a pair of contextualising essays about Helen Huntington. The first looks at the private lives and crises of those involved in the break-up of Granville Barker's marriage to his first wife, Lillah McCarthy. Reconsidering McCarthy's actions, this essay also suggests that Huntington was abused by her husband, from whom Barker rescued her. A second essay addresses the portrayal of Helen Huntington as a theatre-hating woman who ruined Barker's caeer. In fact she was a regulare theatre-goer, a writer and Barker's eventual collaborator"--Back cover.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780854300853
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
"The name of Harley Granville Barker is well known both in the theatre industry, where his plays continue to be performed, and in academic study of drama and theatre, especially Shakespeare studies. However, because almost no attention has been paid to an archive which the British Library purchased in the late 1990s, work published on him has been inaccurate about his beliefs, his most personal feelings, and the major career change in his life. This archive consists mainly of correspondence between Barker and Helen Huntington, whom he met in 1914 and who became his second wife in 1918. These letters tell us about the early years of their relationship as well as what they read, discussed, and planned. This book presents extended extracts from the Barker-Huntington correspondence together with unfamiliar short essays and some interviews which were published in American newspapers. These cover topics such as teh future of American theatre, uses of drama with children with learning difficulties, eurhythmics and the origins of theatre. Meticulously edited and fully annotated, the primary texts are accompanied by a pair of contextualising essays about Helen Huntington. The first looks at the private lives and crises of those involved in the break-up of Granville Barker's marriage to his first wife, Lillah McCarthy. Reconsidering McCarthy's actions, this essay also suggests that Huntington was abused by her husband, from whom Barker rescued her. A second essay addresses the portrayal of Helen Huntington as a theatre-hating woman who ruined Barker's caeer. In fact she was a regulare theatre-goer, a writer and Barker's eventual collaborator"--Back cover.
Granville Barker, a Secret Life
Author: Eric Salmon
Publisher: London : Heinemann Educational Books
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Publisher: London : Heinemann Educational Books
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Harley Granville Barker
Author: Dan H. Laurence Collection
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 10
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 10
Book Description
Harley Granville Barker
Author: Christine Dymkowski
Publisher: Associated University Presses
ISBN: 9780918016829
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
The first comprehensive study of Barker's critical and practical work on Shakespeare, setting it in the context of late nineteenth and early twentieth-century Shakespearean production. Illustrated.
Publisher: Associated University Presses
ISBN: 9780918016829
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
The first comprehensive study of Barker's critical and practical work on Shakespeare, setting it in the context of late nineteenth and early twentieth-century Shakespearean production. Illustrated.
Harley Granville-Barker
Author: Harley Granville-Barker
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors, English
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The collection consists of an original manuscript of Granville-Barker's The Wicked Man, an unfinished and unpublished play. It also includes typescripts of two unpublished versions of his play The Weather Hen, written in collaboration with Berte Thomas.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors, English
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The collection consists of an original manuscript of Granville-Barker's The Wicked Man, an unfinished and unpublished play. It also includes typescripts of two unpublished versions of his play The Weather Hen, written in collaboration with Berte Thomas.
Granville Barker, a Secret Life
Author: Eric Salmon
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN: 9780838632284
Category : Authors, English
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN: 9780838632284
Category : Authors, English
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Three Plays by Granville Barker
Author: Harley Granville-Barker
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
Harley Granville-Barker, 1877-1946
Author: Geoffrey Whitworth
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Actors
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Actors
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
The Achievement of Harley Granville-Barker (1877-1946)
Harley Granville Barker
Author: Charles Benjamin Purdom
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description