num_pages: 608
description: This selection of letters provides important insights into the multifaceted career of Harley Granville British actor, director, dramatist, and critic. His involvement in the theater in the first four decades of this century revolutionized our thinking about the status and function of the director and gave us an important body of practical Shakespearean commentary in his Prefaces to Shakespeare. His letters and those of his correspondents - William Archer, Bernard Shaw, T. E. Lawrence, and Sir John Gielgud, among others - are filled with comments about his work and the state of the British theater. Particularly important are the letters between Barker and Gilbert Murray. They give an excellent account of Barker's early involvement with the Court Theatre and discuss Barker's productions of Murray's translations of several plays of Euripides.
language: English
title: Granville Barker and His Correspondents: A Selection of Letters by Him and to Him
titlecomplete: Granville Barker and His Correspondents: A Selection of Letters by Him and to Him
ratings_count: 1
publisher: Wayne State Univ Pr