Beecham, Richard, and Patricia Riley. “Foreword”. Looking for Githa, New Writing North.
Harley Granville-Barker
Standard Name: Granville-Barker, Harley
Used Form: Harley Granville Barker
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Textual Production | Githa Sowerby | Beecham
called the play a ferocious Geordie drama thick with dialect, diatribe and an unsparing depiction of the brutalities of the industrial north at the turn of the century. |
Reception | Elizabeth Robins | Despite its open treatment of politics and abortion, the play had little trouble securing a licence from the Lord Chamberlain. In the same year Granville-Barker
's play Waste was refused a licence for dealing with... |
Publishing | Githa Sowerby | She had worked on it during a visit to Sutton Courtenay just before she was married, and finished it in late 1913. Curtis Brown
had wanted her to produce something more light-hearted, but several theatre... |
Performance of text | Elizabeth Baker | EB
wrote this and her later plays while in full-time employment. It and the other Court Theatre productions were put on by the Play Actors
society. Chains was revived in 1910 by Dion Boucicault
at... |
Performance of text | Florence Farr | As well as writing for the stage, FF
composed music for it, notably for Harley Granville-Barker
's production of Gilbert Murray
's translation of Hippolytus by Euripides
, which was performed in May 1902. She... |
Performance of text | George Paston | GP
's first play, The Pharisee's Wife, was performed at the Duke of York's Theatre
, produced by Granville-Barker
. Nicoll, Allardyce. English Drama, 1900-1930. Cambridge University Press. 875 Wearing, J. P. The London Stage 1900-1909. Scarecrow Press. 4.172 |
Performance of text | George Bernard Shaw | Vedrenne
and Barker
first presented Getting Married, GBS
's discussion play critiquing Britain's marriage laws, at the Haymarket Theatre
in London. Innes, Christopher, editor. The Cambridge Companion to George Bernard Shaw. Cambridge University Press. xxv Weintraub, Stanley, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 10. Gale Research. |
Occupation | Florence Farr | FF
composed the music and led the chorus for Harley Granville-Barker
's production of Euripides
' Hippolytus, translated by Gilbert Murray
and performed at the Court Theatre
. Johnson, Josephine. Florence Farr: Bernard Shaw’s new woman. Colin Smythe. 111 |
Friends, Associates | Susan Tweedsmuir | ST
made her own the friendship with Elizabeth Robins
that had begun because Robins was a friend of her mother's. She was also close to playwright-producer Harley Granville-Barker
and particularly to his second wife, the... |
Friends, Associates | Githa Sowerby | Through her husband she acquired a circle of friends including E. V. Lucas
, Kenneth Bird (professionally the cartoonist Fougasse
), Granville-Barker
, and Cyril Hogg
(owner of the music publishing firm Samuel French
). Riley, Patricia. Looking for Githa. New Writing North. 102-3 |
Education | Edith Craig |
Timeline
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.
Autumn 1904 to summer 1907: Under the management of playwright and director...
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Autumn 1904 to summer 1907
Under the management of playwright and director Harley Granville-Barker
and business manager J. E. Vedrenne
, the Court Theatre
became the first permanent home of the new drama.
1907: Harley Granville-Barker's play Waste, designed...
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1907
Harley Granville-Barker
's play Waste, designed to have been the centre-piece of his ambitious new season at the Savoy Theatre
, was banned by the lord chamberlain largely because a death from illegal abortion...
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.
September 1930: Harley Granville-Barker's book A National...
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September 1930
Harley Granville-Barker
's book A National Theatre proposed the building of such a theatre on London's South Bank near Charing Cross Bridge.
Texts
Sackville-West, Vita. “The Women Poets of the Seventies”. The Eighteen-Seventies: Essays by Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, edited by Harley Granville-Barker, Cambridge University Press, 1929, pp. 111-32.