William Archer

Standard Name: Archer, William

Connections

Connections Sort descending	Author name	Excerpt
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, 1995. 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, 1995. 81-2 In 1909 and 1910, she carried...
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
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...
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...
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. qtd. in 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, 2004, 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, 1902. 472 He also maintained, however, that she had done nothing finer Archer, William. Poets of the Younger Generation. John Lane, Bodley Head, 1902. 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, 1902. vii-viii Her diction is pure, he...
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, 1995. 88-9 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, 2007. 47
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...
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, 1995. 69 Demastes, William W., and Katherine E. Kelly, editors. British Playwrights, 1880-1956. Greenwood Press, 1996. 353
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...
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, 1993. Wilde had written to the authors with casting advice. He suggested they should have the theatre's founder, J. T. Grein

Timeline

1877

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

“History of the Library”. 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.

Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.

318

McDonald, Jan. The ’New Drama’ 1900-1914. Grove Press, 1986.

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19 May 1908

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

Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.

341

Weinreb, Ben, and Christopher Hibbert, editors. The London Encyclopaedia. Papermac, 1987, http://4-22.

535

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.