On the Art of the Theatre

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On the art of the Theatre

Craig, Edward Gordon

History

Franklin Classics

Towards a new Theatre; Forty Designs for Stage Scenes

'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'.

CRAIG ON THEATRE (Performance Books)

Humor & Entertainment

Heinemann

On the Art of the Theatre (Routledge Theatre Classics)

First published in 1911, On the Art of the Theatre remains one of the seminal texts of theatre theory and practice. Actor, director, designer and pioneering theorist, Edward Gordon Craig was one of twentieth century theatre’s great modernisers. Here, he is eloquent and entertaining in expounding his views on the theatre; a crucial and prescient contribution that retains its relevance almost a century later. This reissue contains a wealth of new features:  a specially written Introduction and notes from editor Franc Chamberlain an updated bibliography  further reading. Controversial and original, On the Art of the Theatre stands as one of the most influential books on theatre of the twentieth century.

Arts & Photography

Performing Arts

Routledge

First published in 1911, On the Art of the Theatre remains one of the seminal texts of theatre theory and practice. Actor, director, designer and pioneering theorist, Edward Gordon Craig was one of twentieth century theatre’s great modernisers. Here, he is eloquent and entertaining in expounding his views on the theatre; a crucial and prescient contribution that retains its relevance almost a century later. This reissue contains a wealth of new features: <ul>
<li>a specially written Introduction and notes from editor Franc Chamberlain</li> <li>an updated bibliography </li> <li>further reading.</li>
</ul>
Controversial and original, On the Art of the Theatre stands as one of the most influential books on theatre of the twentieth century.

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

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Heinemann Educ.

Index to the Story of My Days: Some Memoirs of Edward Gordon Craig

British & Irish

Cambridge University Press

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.

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

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Dramas & Plays

Wentworth Press

Edward Gordon Craig (1872-1966) is particularly known among theatre practitioners and students of the theatre as a pioneer in what has been referred to as "the new movement in the theatre," commencing with his experimental productions in the early years of the twentieth century and his first book, The Art of the Theatre, published in 1905. Although labelled an impractical dreamer by his detractors, he successfully designed and produced a baker's dozen of plays and operas, ranging from the amateur Dido and Aeneas in 1900 to the renowned co-production with Constantin Stanislavsky of Hamlet at the Moscow Art Theatre; from the highly revolutionary production of Ibsen's The Vikings in 1903, under Ellen Terry's management with her appearing as Hiordis, to Ibsen's The Pretenders for The Royal Theatre in Copenhagen in the '20's. However, his greatest influence on the modern theatre was due only in part, to the actual productions; far greater in importance were his visionary, prophetic approaches to a new theatre in which, for once, all components would be united under the creative artistic impulse of a single person, an approach taken for granted today. Although this is frequently thought to be his major contribution, there were, of course, many others because of Craig's extremely fertile and inventive imagination and devotion to theatre. One little known aspect of his prolific outpouring of books, articles, book reviews, letters, etc. is the considerable attention he paid to dance in its various manifestations. Gathered here are all the known published writings by Craig on movement and dance: articles, notes, editorials, book-reviews ranging over a wide variety of material from pieces concerning themselves with theory to "classic ballet" (Clerico, Cortesi, Guimard, Lambranzi, Taglioni, Pavlova, Nijinsky, Rubinstein); ethnic and folk dance from the Far East to England, to "modern dance" (Morris, Enters, Duncan, Fuller, St. Denis, Shawn and Dalcroze). Craig's bete-noire, Diaghilev's Russian Ballet, received considerable attention from him in many pieces for many years. In order to produce so much material Craig not only used his own name but resorted to an earlier subterfuge, that of pseudonyms. In his magazine, The Mask, we find that he used some sixty-six, not all represented here, however, because of the subject limitation. Included here are also a number of short, unsigned pieces which may or may not have served as yet another "mask" for Craig but are assigned to him by the editor to provide a more detailed picture. Omitted are a few articles on dance not written by Craig but by other, "real" people for The Mask. It is hoped this work will bring to the surface another facet of Craig's involvement in "total theatre."

Gordon Craig on movement and dance

Dance Horizons

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On the art of the Theatre

Towards a new Theatre; Forty Designs for Stage Scenes

CRAIG ON THEATRE (Performance Books)

On the Art of the Theatre (Routledge Theatre Classics)

On the Art of the Theatre (Routledge Theatre Classics)

On the Art of the Theatre

Index to the Story of My Days: Some Memoirs of Edward Gordon Craig

Index to the Story of My Days: Some Memoirs of Edward Gordon Craig

On the Art of the Theatre

Gordon Craig on movement and dance