St. John Greer Ervine

Saint John Greer Ervine ( born December 28, 1883 in Belfast, † January 24, 1971 in Devon ) was an Anglo- Irish playwright and writer.

Life

Ervine emigrated in 1900 to London, where he wrote plays and novels. Between 1915 and 1916 he was director of the Abbey Theatre in Dublin, which was also his first stage works Mixed Marriage ( 1911), Jane Clegg ( 1914), Four Irish Plays ( 1914) and John Ferguson (1915 ) were premiered. After these initial mean their works from the bourgeois world of Ireland, he later wrote unproblematic society pieces like Friends and Relations (1947 ) and Private Enterprise (1948 ).

During World War II he served his military service in the Royal Dublin Fusiliers and lost a leg in combat. After the war he began a career as a theater critic for newspapers such as The Observer and The Morning Post.

He also continued his writing career and not only wrote an autobiography titled Some Impressions of My Elders (1922 ), but also the successful plays Anthony and Anna (1926) and The First Mrs. Fraser ( 1929). He also worked in 1932 as a theater critic for the British Broadcasting Corporation ( BBC).

In 1933 he accepted an appointment as professor of dramatic literature at the University of Dublin. In addition to the 1937 incurred Drama Robert 's Wife, he wrote seven novels such as Changing Winds ( 1917) and The Foolish Lovers (1920 ) and numerous biographies like about Charles Stewart Parnell (1928 ), the biography of George Bernard Shaw titled George Bernard Shaw - His Life, Work And Friends 1956 with the James Tait Black Memorial Prize was awarded.

External links and sources

• Biography ( PGIL - eirdata.org )
• Biography ( Britannica Online)
• St. John Ervine at the Internet Movie Database (English)
• CHAMBER 'S BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY, Edinburgh 2002, ISBN 0-550-10051-2, p 498