Plays by Harley Granville Barker : The Marrying of Ann Leete, The Voysey Inheritance, Waste Hardback
by Harley Granville-Barker
Edited by Dennis Kennedy
Part of the British and American Playwrights series
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Harley Granville Barker, one of the most versatile figures in twentieth-century theatre, was the leader of the campaign to reform the English stage in the Edwardian period.
His work as an actor, director, playwright, and manager set new standards of production and gave Shaw his first successful showings; his later career as a critic, after he abandoned the stage, opened new interpretations of Shakespeare and led the way to the establishment of a national theatre.
This volume presents three of Granville Barker's best plays: The Marrying of Ann Leete (about a young woman rebelling against convention), The Voysey Inheritance (digging at middle-class hypocrisy), and Waste (banned by the Lord Chamberlain, the tragedy of a politician caught in a sexual trap).
Written between 1899 and 1907, and collected here for the first time in a scholarly edition, they reveal Barker as an exciting, subtle and innovative dramatist.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:272 pages
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:07/05/1987
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- ISBN:9780521306423
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Out of Stock - We are unable to provide an estimated availability date for this product
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:272 pages
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:07/05/1987
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- ISBN:9780521306423
