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Barrett H. (Barrett Harper) Clark
1890–1953
A busy, influential figure in early 20th-century theater, he helped bring modern European drama to English-language readers as a translator, editor, critic, and anthologist. His work moved easily between the stage, the classroom, and publishing, making him a familiar name in drama circles of his time.
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How to Produce Amateur Plays: A Practical Manual
by Barrett H. (Barrett Harper) Clark
About the author
Born in Toronto in 1890, Barrett H. Clark built a wide-ranging career around theater and dramatic literature. Archival and library sources describe him as a writer, editor, translator, critic, scholar of drama, and at times an actor and drama instructor.
Clark is especially remembered for helping introduce and circulate modern drama through translations, edited collections, and critical writing. Records for his papers and authority files also connect him with the publisher Samuel French and show how deeply involved he was with the literary and theatrical world on both sides of the Atlantic.
He died in 1953. Today, his name turns up most often on collections of plays, translations from French and Spanish, and studies of modern theater, reflecting a career devoted less to celebrity than to shaping what readers, students, and performers could discover.