Edward Gordon Craig: A Vision of Theatre
Edward Gordon Craig: A Vision of Theatre

Author: Christopher Innes

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-10-11

Total Pages: 354

ISBN-13: 1134402945

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Edward Gordon Craig's ideas regarding set and lighting have had an enormous impact on the development of the theatre we know today. In this new and updated edition of his well-known study of Edward Gordon Craig, Professor Christopher Innes shows how Craig's stage work and theoretical writings were crucial to the development of modern theatre. This book contains extensive documentation and re-evaluates his significance as an artist, actor, director and writer. Craig is placed in historical context, and his productions are reconstituted from unpublished prompt-books, sketches, journals and correspondence. Most of the designs and photographs, and many of Craig's writings cited, are not available elsewhere in print. Readers will gain insight into a key period of theatrical history, the life of one of its most fascinating individuals, the nature of stage performance, and into revolutionary ideas that are still challenging today.

The Mask: A Periodical Performance by Edward Gordon Craig
The Mask: A Periodical Performance by Edward Gordon Craig

Author: Olga Taxidou

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-06-03

Total Pages: 217

ISBN-13: 1134424507

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No study of modern theater is complete without a thorough understanding of the enormous influence of visionary genius Edward Gordon Craig. Born in England in 1872, Craig went on to become famous world-wide as an actor, manager, director, playwright, designer, and most importantly an author and theorist, whose books were translated into German, Russian, Japanese, Dutch, Hungarian, and Danish. Although an essential parallel to the European avant-garde, Craig was often read as "exceptional" and highly innovative in his native Britain, thus, The Mask not only appears as Craig's main cosmopolitan project but also at times functions as a surrogate stage for his experiments in theater practice. The book has a comprehensive chronology, extensive notes and a bibliography making it an essential text for undergraduates, postgraduates, actors, theatre professionals, designers, directors, researchers and writers in the fields of theatre studies (especially theater set and lighting) and theater history.

Woodcuts and Some Words
Woodcuts and Some Words

Author: Edward Gordon Craig

Publisher:

Published: 1925

Total Pages: 154

ISBN-13:

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Collection of the author's woodcuts made between 1898 and 1923 along with information about himself and tips for woodcutters.

Craig on Theatre
Craig on Theatre

Author: Edward Gordon Craig

Publisher:

Published:

Total Pages: 195

ISBN-13: 9781350053465

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'Craig on Theatre' presents the essence of Edward Gordon Craig's ideas. This volume is a companion to 'Artaud on Theatre', 'Brecht on Theatre' and 'Meyerhold on Theatre'.

Beyond Text
Beyond Text

Author: Jennifer Buckley

Publisher: University of Michigan Press

Published: 2019-10-09

Total Pages: 293

ISBN-13: 0472074253

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Taking up the work of prominent theater and performance artists, Beyond Text reveals the audacity and beauty of avant-garde performance in print. With extended analyses of the works of Edward Gordon Craig, German expressionist Lothar Schreyer, the Living Theatre, Carolee Schneemann, and Guillermo Gómez-Peña, the book shows how live performance and print aesthetically revived one another during a period in which both were supposed to be in a state of terminal cultural decline. While the European and American avant-gardes did indeed dismiss the dramatic author, they also adopted print as a theatrical medium, altering the status, form, and function of text and image in ways that continue to impact both the performing arts and the book arts. Beyond Text participates in the ongoing critical effort to unsettle conventional historical and theoretical accounts of text-performance relations, which have too often been figured in binary, chronological (“from page to stage”), or hierarchical terms. Across five case studies spanning twelve decades, Beyond Text demonstrates that print—as noun and verb—has been integral to the practices of modern and contemporary theater and performance artists.

Scene
Scene

Author: Edward Gordon Craig

Publisher:

Published: 1923

Total Pages: 90

ISBN-13:

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Henry Irving's Waterloo
Henry Irving's Waterloo

Author: W. D. King

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 1993-01-01

Total Pages: 330

ISBN-13: 9780520080720

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"This is an extraordinary, provocative, and informative book which covers a wide range of aspects of the theatre of the time and touches upon a large number of individual artists and personalities. The book locates a theatrical phenomenon in the larger culture, drawing upon documents around and beyond the theatre itself. It will shake up complacent scholars, generate a new methodological freedom, and open up a whole period to sophisticated and creative cultural analysis."--Cary M. Mazer, author of Shakespeare Refashioned "W. D. King has developed an original close-reading of a particular (and only apparently marginal) episode of theatrical history and has placed that episode within a network of crucial cultural issues and values. The book is original in methodology, elegant in its argument, and persuasive in its conclusions."--Joseph R. Roach, author of The Player's Passion

Edward Gordon Craig
Edward Gordon Craig

Author: Christopher Innes

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 384

ISBN-13: 9789057021251

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Edward Gordon Craig's ideas regarding set and lighting have had an enormous impact on the development of the theatre we know today. In this new and updated edition of his well-known study of Edward Gordon Craig, Professor Christopher Innes shows how Craig's stage work and theoretical writings were crucial to the development of modern theatre. This book contains extensive documentation and re-evaluates his significance as an artist, actor, director and writer. Craig is placed in historical context, and his productions are reconstituted from unpublished prompt-books, sketches, journals and correspondence. Most of the designs and photographs, and many of Craig's writings cited, are not available elsewhere in print. Readers will gain insight into a key period of theatrical history, the life of one of its most fascinating individuals, the nature of stage performance, and into revolutionary ideas that are still challenging today.