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Rudolf Besier
1878–1942
Best known for the hit stage drama The Barretts of Wimpole Street, this Dutch-English playwright built a career out of turning vivid characters and literary stories into compelling theater. He also worked as a translator and collaborated with well-known writers of his day.
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Lady Patricia: A comedy in three acts
by Rudolf Besier
About the author
Born on July 2, 1878, in Java, Rudolf Wilhelm Besier became a Dutch-English dramatist and translator whose reputation rests chiefly on his 1930 play The Barretts of Wimpole Street. The play, based on the courtship of Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning, proved to be his lasting success and helped secure his place in 20th-century theater history.
Besier also collaborated on dramatizations with writers including H. G. Wells, Hugh Walpole, and May Edginton. Alongside his original plays, this mix of adaptation, collaboration, and translation shows how comfortable he was working between literature and the stage.
He died on June 16, 1942. Reliable sources found here confirm his career and major work, but I wasn't able to confirm a suitable portrait photograph of him from the available page images, so no profile image is included.