Index to the Story of my Days. Some memoirs of Edward Gordon Craig, 1872-1907. With plates, including portraits

by Edward Gordon Craig

Edward Gordon Craig (1872 1966) was the most brilliant and influential stage designer this century. Always a controversial figure, he set out to revolutionise the theatre by creating a new art, the art of the theatre. Almost single-handed he formulated the principles on which a modern approach to stage design would be based. In his writings and engravings he transformed stage scenery from painted back-cloth into an abstract three-dimensional world of form and light. Craig's reputation as a designer is firmly established; his brilliance as a writer is only beginning to be recognised. Index to the Story of My Days shows him at his most self-revealing. As the original edition announced, 'Anything less like the conventional book of memoirs it would be difficult to imagine'. This 1981 reissue includes a specially written introductory essay by Peter Holland assessing the importance of Craig's career in the history of stage design.

308 pages, Hardcover

First published July 23, 1981

About the author

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.

Reviews

[Louise Carlson Stowell · Rating 5 out of 5]

A very interesting look into the mind and life of the man who was THE love of Isadora Duncan.