Clarence (UK TV series) Kingdom. Clarence (UK TV series) Clarence is a 1988 BBC situation comedy starring Ronnie Barker and Josephine Tewson, written by Ronnie Barker under the pseudonym "Bob Ferris" as an acknowledgement to Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais, creators of "Porridge". It was Barker's final sitcom appearance before his retirement. Barker had previously faced some criticism over his employment of a stammer for comedic effect in "Open All Hours". However, the slapstick potential of a short-sighted furniture shifter must have seemed irresistible. The series was inspired by "The Removals Person" by Hugh Leonard, an episode in the 1971 LWT comedy anthology
Harley Granville-Barker on handmade paper in a slipcase. Granville-Barker's most notable prose work is the "Prefaces to Shakespeare" written from 1927 to the end of his life in 1946. "Prefaces to Shakespeare" was considered the first major Shakespeare study to attend to the practical matters of staging. The prefaces were published in two hardback volumes in 1946 and 1947. In 1906, Granville-Barker met his first wife Lillah McCarthy while playing her opposite in "Man and Superman". After World War I, he divorced his first wife and married an American writer named Helen Huntington who disliked the stage, actors, and especially Shaw. He