Arkwright (Open All Hours) to be too small for the act. Arkwright and Gladys apparently never got married before Arkwright's death; Gladys claims he died to save the cost of the church. Arkwright (Open All Hours) Albert E. Arkwright, usually referred to simply as Arkwright, is a fictional character and the main protagonist of the British sitcom, "Open All Hours", played by Ronnie Barker. Arkwright is the uncle of Granville and the proprietor of an old fashioned Yorkshire corner shop, which in the era of the programme (1970s and 1980s) was a product of a bygone age. Arkwright's signature characteristic is his stutter, which
Harley Granville-Barker well with the Edwardian audience. They found his plays to be incomprehensible. According to "The Oxford Companion to Theatre and Performance", his style was more similar to the styles of Chekhov by putting the "action under the surface". Although his audience may not have understood him, this did not stop Granville-Barker from discussing important issues in society. In 1907 Granville-Barker's play "Waste" was banned due to the topic of abortion and its politics. In 1909, three volumes of his plays, "The Voysey Inheritance", "Waste", and "The Marrying of Ann Leete", were published in a limited edition of 50 copies printed