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WILLIAM ARCHER (1856— )

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Originally appearing in Volume V02, Page 362 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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WILLIAM See also:ARCHER (1856— )  , See also:English critic, was See also:born at See also:Perth on the 23rd of See also:September 1856, and was educated at See also:Edinburgh University . He became a See also:leader-writer on the Edinburgh Evening See also:News in 1875, and after a See also:year in See also:Australia returned to Edinburgh . In 1879 he became dramatic critic of the See also:London See also:Figaro, and in 1884 of the See also:World . In London he soon took a prominent See also:literary See also:place . Mr See also:Archer had much to do with introducing See also:Ibsen to the English public by his See also:translation of The Pillars of Society, produced at the Gaiety See also:Theatre, London, in ,880 . He also translated, alone or in collaboration, other productions of the Scandinavian See also:stage: Ibsen's See also:Doll's See also:House (1889), See also:Master Builder (1893); Edvard See also:Brandes's A Visit (1892); Ibsen's Peer Gyvtt (1892); Little Eyolf (1895); and See also:John See also:Gabriel Borkman (1897); and he edited Henrik Ibsen's See also:Prose Dramas (5 vols., 1890-1891) . Among his See also:critical See also:works are: English Dramatists of To-See also:day (1882); Masks or Faces ? (1888); five vols. of critical notices reprinted, The Theatrical World (1893—1897); See also:America To-day, Observations and Reflections; Poets of the Younger See also:Generation (19o1); Real Conversations (1904) .

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