William Archer

Standard Name: Archer, William

Connections

Connections	Author name Sort ascending	Excerpt
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. 139 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. 472 He also maintained, however, that she had done nothing finer Archer, William. Poets of the Younger Generation. John Lane, Bodley Head. 472 than On the Downs.
Literary responses	Rosamund Marriott Watson	Most reviews of Vespertilia and Other Verses were extremely positive, though only one of them (by Norman Gale in Academy) mentioned the other books published under RMW 's different pseudonyms. “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 240 Gale compared her...
Literary responses	Rosamund Marriott Watson	William Archer included RMW alongside A. E. Housman , Rudyard Kipling , Alice Meynell , E. Nesbit , and William Butler Yeats in Poets of the Younger Generation (1902). Archer, William. Poets of the Younger Generation. John Lane, Bodley Head. vii-viii Her diction is pure, he...
Intertextuality and Influence	Dodie Smith	Before she became a successful dramatist in the 1930s, DS made a couple of abortive attempts at writing plays. In 1922 she attempted her first play, Pirate Ships (later renamed Portrait of the Artist's Wives...
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. 69 Demastes, William W., and Katherine E. Kelly, editors. British Playwrights, 1880-1956. Greenwood Press. 353
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. 55-7
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. 65
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. 79 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. 81-2 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. 88-9 William Archer defends the play in his lengthy introduction to the published version, in which he draws attention to his own involvement...
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. I: 584 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.
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

Timeline

1877

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

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 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.