Background
with his first wife, Lillah McCarthy, as leading lady, he vitalized Shakespearean production and acting, and gave Shaw and Galsworthy their first popular success in the theater. The meticulously artistic staging which he practiced there has rarely been surpassed. Granville-Barker's best known plays are The Voysey Inheritance (1905), Waste (1907), and The Madras House (1910). His Prefaces to Shakespeare (1927-1945) represent a notable achievement in Shakespearean interpretation and scholarship. He died Aug. 31, 1946, in Paris.