' The Theatre from Then till Now'
Harold Child
Last week, in the opening talk of this new series, listeners heard how Shakespeare was acted in his own day. This evening Harold Child is to carry the story on through the eighteenth century (when David Garrick played Shakespeare in what was then modern dress) to the colour and spectacle and pageantry of Irving's and Tree's productions.
Harold Child , has been a writer on The Times and The Times Literary Supplement since 1902. He was dramatic critic to The Observer from 1912 to 1920, and has contributed to ' The New Cambridge Shakespeare ' and to publications of the Royal Society of Literature and the Shakespeare Association.