Author:William Archer (1856-1924)

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William Archer (1856–1924)

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British translator and critic

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This author wrote articles for the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica.
Articles attributed to this author are designated in EB1911 by the initials "W. A."

William Archer

Works

• English Dramatists of To-day (1882)
• About the Theatre: Essays and Studies (1886) (external scan)
• Masks or Faces? (1888)
• William Charles Macready (1890)
• The Theatrical World (1893-1897), five volumes of critical notices
• America To-Day, Observations and Reflections (1900)
• Poets of the Younger Generation (1901)
• Real Conversations (1904)
• Play-Making: A Manual of Craftsmanship (1912)
• "Drama/11f#Recent," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911) (Recent English Drama)

Translations

• Doll House (1889) by Henrik Ibsen
• A Visit (1892) by Edvard Brandes
• The Master Builder (1893) by Henrik Ibsen
• Peer Gynt (1892) by Henrik Ibsen
• Little Eyolf (1895) by Henrik Ibsen
• John Gabriel Borkman (1897) by Henrik Ibsen
• Tales of Two Countries (1891) by Alexander Kielland
• Eskimo Life (1893) by Fridtjof Nansen

Works about Archer

• "Archer, William," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• Correspondence in The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson Volume 2
• "Archer, William," in Men-at-the-Bar (2nd ed., p. 11), by Foster, J., London: Hazel, Watson and Viney, Limited (1885)
• "Archer, William," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)
• "Archer, William," in A Biographical Dictionary of Modern Rationalists (p. 25), (ed.) by Joseph McCabe, London: Watts & Co. (1920)
• "Archer, Wm.," in The Nuttall Encyclopædia, (ed.) by James Wood, London: Frederick Warne and Co., Ltd. (1907)