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Harold Hobson

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He wrote books relating to British and French theatre, including his autobiography
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Hobson was the only drama critic to recognise the early
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from 1944 and later became its drama critic (1947–76).
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In 1931, he began to write London theatre reviews for
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Thorpe Hesley
Rotherham
West Riding of Yorkshire
Sheffield Grammar School
Oriel College
Oxford University
The Christian Science Monitor
The Sunday Times
Harold Pinter
The Birthday Party
John Osborne
Samuel Beckett
Tom Stoppard
The Listener
BBC radio
Peter Hall
National Theatre
Commander of the Order of the British Empire
knighted



Billington, Michael
"Hobson, Sir Harold (1904–1992)"
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
UK public library membership
"Godotmania"
The Guardian

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