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William Archer (critic)

William Archer (23 September 1856 – 27 December 1924) was a Scottish author, theatre critic, and English spelling reformer based, for most of his career, in London. He was an early advocate of the plays of Henrik Ibsen, and a friend and advocate of George Bernard Shaw.

William Archer

(1856-09-23)23 September 1856

Perth, Scotland

27 December 1924(1924-12-27) (aged 68)

London, England

Middle Temple

University of Edinburgh

Writer, theatre critic

Frances Elizabeth Trickett
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(m. 1884)​

3 sons

English Dramatists of To-day (1882)

, a study (1883)

Henry Irving

About The Theatre: Essays and Studies (1886)

(1888)

Masks or Faces? A Study in the Psychology of Acting

, a biography (1890)

W. C. Macready

Alan's Wife; a Dramatic Study in Three Scenes (1893)

"The Theatrical World for..." (1893–97), in five volumes

(1900)

America To-day, Observations and Reflections

(1901) John Lane, the Bodley Head, London

Poets of the Younger Generation

(1904)

Real Conversations

A National Theatre: Scheme and Estimates, with H. Granville Barker, (1907)

(1910)

Through Afro-America

The Life, Trial, and Death of (1911)

Francisco Ferrer

Play-Making (1912)

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India and the Future (1917)

The Old Drama and the New (1923)

Archer, Lt.-Col. Charles (1931). William Archer: Life, Work and Friendships. London: Allen & Unwin. (US edition: Yale University Press)

Caton, A. R. (1936). Activity and Rest: The Life and Work of Mrs. William Archer. London: Philip Allan & Co.

Drabble, Margaret, ed. (2000). The Oxford Companion to English Literature (sixth ed.). Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press.  978-0-19-861453-1.

ISBN

Whitebrook, Peter (1993). William Archer. A Biography. London: Methuen.

Woodfield, James (1984). . London: Routledge. ISBN 978-1-138-93465-8.

English Theatre in Transition, 1881–1914

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the : Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Archer, William". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 2 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 362.

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Archer, William (1918), , New York: Alfred A. Knopf

India and the Future

Article by Martin Quinn in Dictionary of Literary Biography

at Library of Congress, with 128 library catalogue records

William Archer