William Archer

Standard Name: Archer, William

Connections

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Textual Production Elizabeth Robins
Heinemann published an English translation of Ibsen's The Master Builder by William Archer and Edmund Gosse ; ER helped with the translation.
John, Angela V. Elizabeth Robins: Staging a Life, 1862-1952. Routledge.
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Textual Production Elizabeth Robins
ER played an important role, until recently unacknowledged, as collaborator in William Archer 's early translations of Ibsen 's plays, as well as other contributions to the new drama movement.
Textual Production Michael Field
Oscar Wilde , William Archer , and John Gray were in the audience on the opening night.
Field, Michael. “Introduction”. Sight and Song; with, Underneath the Bough, edited by R. K. R. Thornton and Ian Small, Woodstock Books.
Wilde had written to the authors with casting advice. He suggested they should have the theatre's founder, J. T. Grein
Textual Production John Oliver Hobbes
JOH converted to Roman Catholicism around this time. The thought she had been giving to religious life manifests itself repeatedly in her work, and influenced her views on literature. In an interview with William Archer
Textual Production Henrik Ibsen
It has been frequently performed in English since William and Charles Archer translated it in 1892.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. Oxford University Press.
Hawkins-Dady, Mark et al., editors. International Dictionary of Theatre. St James Press.
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After it HI turned away from the poetic mode towards prose and naturalism.
Textual Production Henrik Ibsen
Henrietta Frances Lord translated the play into English in 1882 under the title Nora. Her version was followed by a more widely used translation by William Archer (with unacknowledged assistance from Elizabeth Robins ) in 1889.
OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Textual Production Elizabeth Robins
ER , Marion Lea , and William Archermodified for stage production Edmund Gosse 's translation of Ibsen 's Hedda Gabler (published earlier the same year).
John, Angela V. Elizabeth Robins: Staging a Life, 1862-1952. Routledge.
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Other Life Event Ella Hepworth Dixon
EHD helped William Heinemann , William Archer , and Elizabeth Robins put on a reading of Ibsen'sJohn Gabriel Borkman in London for copyright purposes. She played a small part, which she read in German...
Occupation Elizabeth Robins
ER , William Archer , Alfred Sutro , and H. W. Massingham founded the New Century Theatre , an independent subscription society with intellectual and artistic aims.
John, Angela V. Elizabeth Robins: Staging a Life, 1862-1952. Routledge.
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Demastes, William W., and Katherine E. Kelly, editors. British Playwrights, 1880-1956. Greenwood Press.
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Literary responses Elizabeth Robins
The play was tremendously controversial because of its sympathetic treatment of infanticide.
John, Angela V. Elizabeth Robins: Staging a Life, 1862-1952. Routledge.
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William Archer defends the play in his lengthy introduction to the published version, in which he draws attention to his own involvement...
Literary responses Elizabeth Baker
Despite its short run, the play was a critical success. The Times heartily congratulated the Play Actors on their choice of play, saying that [o]ne such play as this a year would justify the existence...
Literary responses Catherine Carswell
The influential William Archer was said to have demanded the identity of the man who was publishing better drama reviews in Scotland than anything being produced in London.
Pilditch, Jan. Catherine Carswell. A Biography. John Donald.
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Literary responses Rosamund Marriott Watson
Oscar Wilde 's review of this collection for The Woman's World called RMWone of our most artistic workers in poetry.
Hughes, Linda K. “A Woman Poet Angling for Notice: Rosamund Marriott Watson”. Marketing the Author: Authorial Personae, Narrative Selves and Self-Fashioning, 1880-1930, edited by Marysa Demoor and Marysa Demoor, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 134-55.
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In 1902William Archer called the collection less mature than her later volumes...
Literary responses Rosamund Marriott Watson
William Archer later singled out A South Coast Idyl as showing the wealth of colour on this painter's palette.
Archer, William. Poets of the Younger Generation. John Lane, Bodley Head.
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He also maintained, however, that she had done nothing finer
Archer, William. Poets of the Younger Generation. John Lane, Bodley Head.
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than On the Downs.
Literary responses Florence Farr
FF 's performances won the acclaim of several critics, including Yeats himself, and her recitation technique was for a short time heralded as a new art form: according to William Archer , in this system...

Timeline

1877: The Dublin Science and Art Museum Act established...

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1877

The Dublin Science and Art Museum Act established the National Library of Ireland .

February 1891: Theatre producer and critic J. T. Grein founded...

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February 1891

Theatre producer and critic J. T. Grein founded the Independent Theatre Society in London to promote literary rather than commercial plays, and the new drama in particular.

19 May 1908: A campaign to establish a National Theatre...

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19 May 1908

A campaign to establish a National Theatre began with a mass meeting at the Lyceum Theatre , London.

Texts

Ibsen, Henrik. “Note”. The Pillars of Society and Other Plays, edited by Havelock Ellis, translated by. William Archer et al., Walter Scott, 1888, p. xxxi.
Archer, William. Poets of the Younger Generation. John Lane, Bodley Head, 1902.