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Harley Granville-Barker
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Noun1.Harley Granville-Barker - English actor and dramatist and critic and director noted for his productions of Shakespearean plays (1877-1946)
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Given stewardship of the Aldwych Theatre, Jones turned it into a radical powerhouse combining new work by Pinter, Edward Albee, Marguerite Duras, David Mercer and Peter Barnes with revivals of Bertolt Brecht, George Bernard Shaw, Granville Barker, Sean O'Casey and his beloved Maxim Gorky.
David Jones by guardian.co.uk / guardian.co.uk
He was plain Harley Granville Barker until his socially ambitious wife persuaded him to add a hyphen to his name in the belief that it would make him seem more important.
It All Hangs on a Hyphen: The British Art of the Con by John Heilpern / The New York Observer
But the main drama offering at the festival provided a reassessment of the work of Harley Granville Barker (1877-1946), a contemporary of George Bernard Shaw and often described as the most unjustly neglected playwright of the 20th century.
Edinburgh International Festival by Green, Laurence / Contemporary Review
 
 
 
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