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in 1910. This new opportunity reminded
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on tour with Ben Greet's
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who supposedly disliked the stage, actors, and especially Shaw. He then hyphenated his name, causing his colleagues to believe that he was abandoning the battle for a life of luxury. Recently, the negative characterization of Helen "as a theatre-hating woman who ruined Barker's career" has been
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Harley
Granville-Barker was born in London, England on 25 November 1877. He left school at 14 and began a career in acting. As his career blossomed, he seemed to excel in roles that were a culmination of intelligence and romantic dreaminess. This landed him many roles such as; Tanner in
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to mount almost 1,000 performances. Many of these performances were classics while some were new works. Among the new pieces of work were eleven plays written by George
Bernard Shaw. Granville-Barker often worked with Shaw to assist in staging his plays and directing them as well.
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in that it put the "action under the surface." Although his audience may not have understood him, this did not stop
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disputed, and her dislike of the theater refuted, on the basis of
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