Bernard Grebanier

Bernard Grebanier (March 8, 1903 – March 10, 1977) was an American drama historian, critic, writer, theater director and poet, most notable for his studies of the works of William Shakespeare. He wrote music and 28 books.

Career Grebanier was a professor of English at Brooklyn College from 1926 until 1964. He was a prolific critic during and after his academic career.

Grebanier was friendly with other drama critics in the greater New York City but perhaps none was a better friend than New York Evening Post editor and chief drama critic Joseph Cookman. When Cookman died in 1944, the Post selected Grebanier's tribute to run in the paper among the dozens of tributes sent in.

Grebanier's classes "were the most popular at Brooklyn" between the end of World War II and his retirement in 1965.

Selected works The Uninhibited Byron (1970) Barron's Simplified Approach to Chaucer "An Introduction to Imaginative Literature" (with Seynour Reiter) (1960) The Heart of Hamlet (1960) Playwriting: How to Write for the Theatre (1961) The Truth About Shylock (1962) "The Great Shakespeare Forgery" (1965) Then Came Each Actor (1975) Last Harvest: Poems of Bernard Grebanier (1980)