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Drama William Archer Scottish Journalist Dramatic Critic Alliance

Front William Archer
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Scottish journalist and dramatic critic
whose alliance with Bernard Shaw in the championship of Ibsen was influential in the move to raise the literary standards of British drama at the end of 19th
The Old Drama And The New, 1923 is a vigorously argued and unashamedly partisan statement of his critical view that the English drama since Tom Robertson has a greater claim for stage performance than all but a tiny minority of earlier plays

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