William Archer

Standard Name: Archer, William

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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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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...
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...
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
Friends, Associates John Oliver Hobbes
She made many friends and acquaintances both as a figure in society and as an author. These included literary people such as George Meredith , Thomas Hardy , Punch editor Owen Seaman , William Archer
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
Intertextuality and Influence John Oliver Hobbes
JOH 's speeches and interviews regularly deal with literature. In an interview with William Archer , she admits to admiring Arthur Wing Pinero 's characterisation of women, while noting how little individualised are some of...
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
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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Friends, Associates Elizabeth Robins
ER was romantically linked to William Archer for most of the 1890s.
John, Angela V. Elizabeth Robins: Staging a Life, 1862-1952. Routledge.
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She also had a long, sometimes antagonistic, sometimes friendly relationship with George Bernard Shaw .
John, Angela V. Elizabeth Robins: Staging a Life, 1862-1952. Routledge.
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In 1909 and 1910, she carried...
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.
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...
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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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.