Edward Gordon Craig

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Edward Gordon Craig


Born
in Stevenage, The United Kingdom
January 12, 1872

Died
July 29, 1966

Genre
Art


Edward Henry Gordon Craig CH OBE, sometimes known as Gordon Craig, was an English modernist theatre practitioner; he worked as an actor, director and scenic designer, as well as developing an influential body of theoretical writings.

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On the Art of the Theatre

3.80 avg rating — 49 ratings — published 1966 — 106 editions
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CRAIG ON THEATRE (Performan...

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3.50 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 1983 — 3 editions
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L’arte del teatro. Il mio t...

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Il mio teatro

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4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1980
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The Theatre - Advancing

really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1919 — 54 editions
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Index to the Story of My Da...

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3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1981 — 12 editions
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Towards a new theatre; fort...

3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1913 — 16 editions
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Gordon Craig's Paris Diary:...

it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1987 — 4 editions
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EL ACTOR Y LA SUPERMARIONETA

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Henry Irving, Ellen Terry, Etc

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“Perhaps one of the chief distinctions between a Drama for Marionnettes and a Proper Drama is this ... that whereas a Proper Drama has to be vague and roundabout in its movements, a Marionnette Drama had always better be direct and rapid and even obvious ... A Marionnette is not at all clever -- not subtle. He must fit the characte rlike a hand fits a glove, or all is undone. Therefore when we make a character in one of our Dramas we make the Marionnette to fit it. And so it comes about that a Marionnette does not play a number of parts, he plays only one... that is himself.”
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“An ex-libris is to the book what a collar is to the dog”
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“I LOOK LIKE IDA CELESTIA POND IF SHE WAS DROPPED INTO A POND, I AM A COMPLETE RIPOFF OF IDA CELESTIA POND.”
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