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9 unusual facts about Brander Matthews


Benjamin Nottingham Webster

Matthews and Hutton, Actors and Actresses of Great Gritain and the United States (New York, 1886)

Brander Matthews

Long before they were fashionable, he championed playwrights who were regarded as too bold for American tastes, such as Hermann Sudermann, Arthur Pinero, and preeminently Henrik Ibsen, about whom he wrote frequently and eloquently.

However, its books were incorporated into the university library and its dioramas of the Globe Theatre and other historic dramatic venues have been dispersed for public display around campus, mainly in Dodge Hall.

Charles Kemble

Matthews, Actors and Actresses of Great Britain and the United States (volume ii, New York, 1886)

Fritz von Frantzius

Von Frantzius published a book in 1914, in response to an article written by Brander Matthews.

Tate Wilkinson

Wm. Archer, Actors and Actresses of Great Britain and the United States, edited by Matthews and Hutton (New York, 1886)

The Book of Truth and Facts

The booklet was written in response to an article entitled “Germans as Exponents of Culture” penned by Brander Matthews, which appeared in the September 20, 1914 edition of the New York Times2.

William C. deMille

William received a bachelor's degree from Columbia University followed by graduate studies at the Academy of Dramatic Arts, at schools in Germany, and a second stint at Columbia studying under Brander Matthews.

William J. Florence

Matthews and Hutton, Actors and Actresses of Great Britain and the United States (New York, 1886)


Austin E. Quigley

Austin Edmund Quigley (born December 31, 1942) was Dean of Columbia College of Columbia University, Lucy G. Moses Professor, and Brander Matthews Professor of Dramatic Literature at Columbia University, in New York City, and the recipient of the 2008 Alexander Hamilton Medal, Columbia College's highest honor.


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