Sunday, July 13, 2008

Bernard Grebanier


Bernard Grebanier (1903 – 1977) was an American drama historian, critic, writer and poet, most notable for his studies of the works of William Shakespeare.

Grebanier was a professor of English at Brooklyn College from 1926 until 1964. In 1956 he testified before the Supreme Court of the United States denouncing a former associate professor as a Communist during the professor's appeal against dismissal from his position.

Among his published works are:

The Uninhibited Byron
Barron's Simplified Approach to Chaucer
The Heart of Hamlet (1960)
Playwrighting: How to Write for the Theatre (1961)
The Truth About Shylock (1962)
Then Came Each Actor (1975)
Last Harvest: Poems of Bernard Grebanier (1980)