Bernard Grebanier

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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. [1]

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)

[edit] Notes and references

  1. ^ Supreme Court Collection Slochower v. Board of Higher Education of New York City (No. 23). Retrieved January 7, 2006.


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