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 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