George Pierce Baker
George Pierce Baker (April 4, 1866 – January 6, 1935)[1] was a professor of English at Harvard and Yale and author of Dramatic Technique, a codification of the principles of drama.
Biography
Baker graduated in the
Yale School of Drama. He remained there until his retirement in 1933.[3]
Baker taught a seminar on Shakespeare and English drama at the Sorbonne University (Paris) in 1908.[4]
Among those he taught in his playwriting class were
Josephine van der Grift, Maurine Dallas Watkins, and Thomas Wolfe.[3] His Dramatic Technique (1919) offered a codification in English of the principles of the well-made play.[6][7]
George Pierce Baker was the father of George P. Baker who was dean of Harvard Business School.[8]
References
- ^ American National Biography
- ^ "Book of Members, 1780-2010: Chapter B" (PDF). American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 5 May 2011.
- ^ ISBN 0-521-43437-8.
- ^ Archival source: CARAN, Paris. AJ/16-4750 (1907) p. 67
- ISBN 9781538107867
- ^ Styan, J L. Modern Drama in Theory and Practice I.
- ISBN 0-415-15229-1.
- ^ "Harvard Business School bio of George P. Baker". Archived from the original on 2018-07-03. Retrieved 2012-09-25.
Further reading
- Bordelon, Suzanne. "A Reassessment of George Pierce Baker's" The Principles of Argumentation": Minimizing the Use of Formal Logic in Favor of Practical Approaches." College Composition and Communication 57.4 (2006): 763-788 online.
- Hinkel, Cecil Ellsworth. "An Analysis and evaluation of the 47 workshop of George Pierce Baker" ( Diss. The Ohio State University, 1959) online.
- Kempf, Christopher. "The Play’sa Thing: The 47 Workshop and the “Crafting” of Creative Writing." American Literary History 32.2 (2020): 243-272.
- Kinne, Wisner Payne. George Pierce Baker and the American Theatre (Harvard University Press, 2013).
- Reilly, Kara. "George Pierce Baker: A century of dramaturgs teaching playwriting." Contemporary Theatre Review 23.2 (2013): 107-113.
External links
- Collection Guide, George Pierce Baker Papers, Houghton Library, Harvard University
- Works by George Pierce Baker at Project Gutenberg
- Works by or about George Pierce Baker at Internet Archive
- Audio recording of Baker's 1920 play The Pilgrim Spirit at LostPlays.com
- Dramatic Technique at the Internet Archive
- George Pierce Baker papers (MS 51). Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Library. [1]
- George Pierce Baker Papers. Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
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