George Pierce Baker

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Baker c. 1886

George Pierce Baker (April 4, 1866 – January 6, 1935)<ref>American National Biography</ref> was a professor of English at Harvard and Yale and author of Dramatic Technique, a codification of the principles of drama.

Biography

Baker graduated in the Harvard College class of 1887, served as Editor-in-Chief of The Harvard Monthly, and taught in the English Department at Harvard from 1888 until 1924. He started his "47 workshop" class in playwriting in 1905. He was instrumental in creating the Harvard Theatre Collection at Harvard University Library. In 1908 he began the Harvard Dramatic Club, acting as its sponsor, and in 1912 he founded the 47 Workshop to provide a forum for the performance of plays developed within his English class.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1914.<ref name=AAAS>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Unable to persuade Harvard to offer a degree in playwriting, he moved to Yale University in 1925, where he helped found the Yale School of Drama. He remained there until his retirement in 1933.<ref name="cgt">Template:Cite book</ref>

Baker was Hyde lecturer and taught a seminar on Shakespeare and English drama at the Sorbonne University (Paris) in 1907-08.<ref>Archival source: CARAN, Paris. AJ/16-4750 (1907) p. 67</ref> He lectured at other French universities and gave several series of lectures at Lowell Institute. He has edited books on drama and written several himself, including Shakespeare's Development as a Dramatist (1907).<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> His Dramatic Technique (1919) offered a codification in English of the principles of the well-made play.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref><ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

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The 47 Workshop at Harvard

Baker wrote of the 47 Workshop:

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In 1913 the Workshop began. From the beginning it has depended almost wholly on itself, doing all the work except for the making of scenery flats and some of the bulky properties. It occupies the lower floor of Massachusetts Hall, one of the oldest of the Harvard buildings. Students are admitted in English 47 and 47A, the two courses in playwriting. These appear also in the curriculum of Radcliffe, the woman's college. To get from the first group (47) to the second group (47A) is by competition; students in the former submitting June 1 of each year manuscripts of one act plays. Prof. Baker passes on these and forms the next year's band of aspiring playwrights out of the winning men. And these students write the plays that are acted in the theater of Massachusetts Hall in the next term, put on the stage by the director or his aids and criticized by the classes.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>{{#if:|

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Further reading

  • Bordelon, Suzanne. "A Reassessment of George Pierce Baker's" The Principles of Argumentation": Minimizing the Use of Formal Logic in Favor of Practical Approaches." College Composition and Communication 57.4 (2006): 763-788 online.
  • Hinkel, Cecil Ellsworth. "An Analysis and evaluation of the 47 workshop of George Pierce Baker" ( Diss. The Ohio State University, 1959) onlineTemplate:Dead link.
  • Kempf, Christopher. "The Play’sa Thing: The 47 Workshop and the “Crafting” of Creative Writing." American Literary History 32.2 (2020): 243-272.
  • Kinne, Wisner Payne. George Pierce Baker and the American Theatre (Harvard University Press, 2013).
  • Reilly, Kara. "George Pierce Baker: A century of dramaturgs teaching playwriting." Contemporary Theatre Review 23.2 (2013): 107-113.

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