Granville-Barker, Harley Granville (1877–1946)

English theatre director and author. He was director and manager with J E Vedrenne at the Royal Court Theatre, London, 1904–18, producing plays by Shaw, Yeats, Ibsen, Galsworthy, and Masefield. His works include the plays Waste (1907), The Voysey Inheritance (1905), and The Madras House (1910). His series of Prefaces to Shakespeare (1927–47) influenced the staging of Shakespeare for many years.