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Rudolf Besier

1878–1942

Best remembered for bringing literary lives to the stage, this Dutch-born English dramatist wrote with a gift for character and emotional clarity. His most enduring success, The Barretts of Wimpole Street, helped keep the story of Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning alive for new audiences.

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Lady Patricia: A comedy in three acts

Lady Patricia: A comedy in three acts

by Rudolf Besier

About the author

Born in 1878, Rudolf Besier was a Dutch-born English dramatist and translator. He is best known for The Barretts of Wimpole Street (1930), a play about Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning that became his lasting claim to fame.

Besier also worked on dramatizations with well-known literary figures including H. G. Wells, Hugh Walpole, and May Edginton. His career connected the worlds of fiction, theater, and adaptation, and his writing was especially drawn to literary subjects and strong central personalities.

He died in 1942. Although he is not as widely read now as some of his contemporaries, his most famous play remained influential enough to secure him a continuing place in theatrical history.