Dadie Rylands
British theatre director
George Humphrey Wolferstan Rylands CH CBE, known as Dadie Rylands, was a British literary scholar and theatre director.
Rylands was born at the Down House, Tockington, Gloucestershire, to Thomas Kirkland Rylands, a land agent, and Bertha Nisbet... Wikipedia
Born: October 23, 1902, Tockington, United Kingdom
Died: January 16, 1999 (age 96 years), Cambridge, United Kingdom
George Humphrey Wolferstan Rylands CH CBE (23 October 1902 – 16 January 1999), known as Dadie Rylands, was a British literary scholar and theatre director.
Jan 18, 1999 · Rylands was a generation on from Duncan Grant and Vanessa Bell, leading artists of the workshops Roger Fry had founded in Bloomsbury in 1913. By ...
It was Rylands who taught an exceptional generation of Shakespearean actors how to speak. Gielgud, Olivier, Ashcroft, Redgrave – all owed their superb diction ...
Dadie (everyone calls him by his nickname) Rylands was born in 1902. He was a Scholar at Eton and at King 's College, Cambridge, where he read classics and ...
Dadie Rylands. (1902-1999), Literary scholar; Fellow of King's College, Cambridge; theatre director and actor. George Humphrey Wolferstan ('Dadie') Rylands.
Jan 20, 1999 · ... Rylands, known to all who met him as "Dadie" (he could not pronounce "baby" when tiny). Rylands went to King's College, Cambridge from Eton ...
He highlights the sheer poetic energy in Shakespeare: figurative language, flights of imagination, and rollercoasters of dramatic effect all need to be noted and absorbed.
Biographical / Historical ... George Humphrey Wolferstan Rylands, known as 'Dadie', was born on 23 Oct. 1902 at Tockington, near Bristol. His father was an estate ...
NPG x31087; Dadie Rylands - Portrait
www.npg.org.uk › collections › search › portrait › Dadie-Rylands
George Humphrey Wolferstan ('Dadie') Rylands (1902-1999), Literary scholar; Fellow of King's College, Cambridge; theatre director and actor. Sitter in 6 ...
George Humphrey Wolferstan Rylands CH CBE (23 October 1902 – 16 January 1999), known as Dadie Rylands, was a British literary scholar and theatre director. He ...