See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
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
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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
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In 1879 he became dramatic critic of the See also:London See also:Figaro, and in 1884 of the See also:World
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In London he soon took a prominent See also:literary See also:place
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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
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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)
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Among his See also:critical See also:works are: English Dramatists of To-See also:day (1882); Masks or Faces
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(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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