Harley Granville-Barker

Harley Granville-Barker
BornHarley Granville-Barker
(1877-11-25)25 November 1877
London, England, UK
Died31 August 1946(1946-08-31) (aged 68)
Paris, French Fourth Republic
Occupation
  • Actor
  • director
  • playwright
  • manager
  • critic
  • theorist
LanguageEnglish
NationalityEnglish
PeriodEdwardian era
GenreDrama
Notable worksThe Voysey Inheritance, Waste, The Madras House
Notable awardsShakespeare Lecture (1925)[1]
SpouseLillah McCarthy
Helen Huntington

Harley Granville-Barker (25 November 1877 – 31 August 1946) was an English actor, director, playwright, manager, critic, and theorist. After early success as an actor in the plays of George Bernard Shaw, he increasingly turned to directing and was a major figure in British theatre in the Edwardian and inter-war periods. As a writer his plays, which tackled difficult and controversial subject matter, met with a mixed reception during his lifetime but have continued to receive attention.

  1. ^ Granville-Barker, Harley (1976). "From Henry V to Hamlet". Proceedings of the British Academy, 1924–1925. 11: 283–309. Annual Shakespeare Lecture of the British Academy.