2006 Volume 44 Pages 145-160
The present paper examines the production of Prunella as Harley Granville Barker's first step toward his later period of stylization.
At the end of the 19th century, the experimental theatre movement of anti-realism emerged in Europe, but it was right before the First World War that the similar movement, that is, Granville Barker's Shakespeare productions at Savoy Theatre, was seen in England. Granville Barker's productions not only made a turning point of the production history of Shakespeare, but also showed an alternative way of theatre production to the thriving realism of English theatre. The production of Prunella, therefore, could be seen as Graville Barker's unnoticed attempt toward the later stylized productions of Shakespeare.
