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ARCHER, WILLIAM (1856 )

This article appears in Volume V02, Page 362 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: APO-ARN
ARCHER, WILLIAM (1856 ) ,
English
  critic, was born at
Perth
  on the 23rd of September 1856, and was educated at Edinburgh University. He became a
leader
 -writer on the Edinburgh Evening News in 1875, and after a year in Australia returned to Edinburgh. In 1879 he became dramatic critic of the London Figaro, and in 1884 of the World. In London he soon took a prominent literary place. Mr Archer had much to do with introducing
Ibsen
  to the
English
  public by his
translation
  of The Pillars of Society, produced at the Gaiety Theatre, London, in ,880. He also translated, alone or in collaboration, other productions of the Scandinavian stage:
Ibsen
 's Doll's
House
  (1889), Master Builder (1893); Edvard Brandes's A Visit (1892); Ibsen's Peer Gyvtt (1892); Little Eyolf (1895); and John Gabriel Borkman (1897); and he edited Henrik Ibsen's
Prose
  Dramas (5 vols., 1890-1891). Among his
critical
  works are: English Dramatists of To-day (1882); Masks or Faces? (1888); five vols. of
critical
  notices reprinted, The Theatrical World (18931897); America To-day, Observations and Reflections; Poets of the Younger Generation (19o1); Real Conversations (1904).


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