The year before he met his first wife, Granville-Barker wrote The Voysey Inheritance which is considered to be a masterpiece of the Edwardian stage.
However, his other plays did not sit 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 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.
The year before he met his first wife, Granville-Barker wrote The Voysey Inheritance which is considered to be a masterpiece of the Edwardian stage. However, his other plays did not sit 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 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.
Harley Granville-Barker