Ernest Bradlee Watson
Personal Information
Description
Ernest Bradlee Watson was born in Boston, Massachusetts. He graduated from Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, in 1902 and with a PhD from Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1913. After a brief stint at instructor and assistant professor of English at Dartmouth College, Watson joined the faculty of Roberts College in Istanbul, being its Dean from 1916-23. During World War I, Watson was with the Red Cross in Paris for a year and a half and served as managing editor of the monthly journal "War Medicine." In 1925, he returned to Dartmouth teaching mainly in the field of drama which had long been an interest of his. He retired from Dartmouth in 1949. Watson was the author of Sheridan to Robertson (1926), a study of the London stage and beginning in 1931, he co-edited the anthology Contemporary Drama. Source: [Dartmouth Libraries](
Books
Contemporary drama
Riders to the Sea. By John Millington Synge Hyacinth Halvey. By Lady Gregory What Every Woman Knows. By J. M. Barrie Mid-Channel. By Arthur Wing Pinero The Glittering Gate. By Lord Dunsany Justice. By John Galsworthy
Contemporary Drama. Eleven Plays. American - English - European
Contains: [Pygmalion]( / Bernard Shaw -- The green pastures / Marc Connelly -- The happy journey to Trenton and Camden / Thornton Wilder -- Ways and means / Noël Coward -- Hello out there / William Saroyan -- Antigone / Jean Anouilh -- [The Glass Menagerie]( / Tennessee Williams -- The madwoman of Chaillot / Jean Giraudoux -- Another part of the forest / Lillian Hellman -- [Death of a Salesman]( / Arthur Miller -- Venus observed / Christopher Fry.