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Edward Gordon Craig: The Revolutionary of the Theatre as Hamlet

Biography, 1987
Gordon Craig wished to effect a revolution in the late Victorian theatre. To justify that rejection of the world of his parents (Ellen Terry, Edwin Godwin) and mentor (Henry Irving), he developed an obsessive identification with Hamlet, seeing himself chosen by destiny to use the power of the play to cleanse the world of evils.
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On the Nature of Edward Gordon Craig's Über-Marionette

New Theatre Quarterly, 2010
There is no consensus among scholars about what the term 'über-marionette', coined by Edward Gordon Craig, refers to precisely. Is it a life-size marionette? A masked dancer? Or is it simply a metaphor for an actor who exerts perfect control over his body and emotions?
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Edward Gordon Craig and The Pretenders

Canadian Theatre Review, 1982
In 1926, the great English theatrical visionary Edward Gordon Craig found himself involved in a production of Ibsen’s The Pretenders at the Danish Royal Theatre in Copenhagen. Why he chose to get involved with “a reputable but distinctly out-ofthe- way state theatre, well removed, if only by virtue of the language barrier, from the mainstream of ...
Frederick J. Marker, Lise-Lone Marker, Syvalva Eichen, Don Rubin   +3 more
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Edward Gordon Craig as Teacher-Dictator

New Theatre Quarterly
Edward Gordon Craig was a controversial and iconoclastic figure in the early twentieth-century British theatre. Underpinning his work as a director, designer, and essayist was a desire to secure obedience and loyalty from the people with whom he worked and to ensure that he was the unquestioned authority.
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Edward Gordon Craig

The Yearbook of English Studies, 1987
John Stokes, Christopher Innes
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Edward Gordon Craig and Hugo von Hofmannsthal

Theatre Research International, 1976
Unfortunately for the development and history of the modern German theater, the several attempts at collaboration between Edward Gordon Craig and Hugo von Hofmannsthal from 1903 to 1910 were fraught with frustration, intrigue, and misunderstandings which resulted in disappointment and failure despite constant efforts by Count Harry Kessler to mediate ...
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The Mask: A Periodical Performance by Edward Gordon Craig

2014
Introduction to the Series Acknowledgements List of Plates Foreword 1. The Mask: The Periodical as a Work of Art 2. The Mask and Late Nineteenth-Century Aesthetics: Synaesthesia, Phantasmagoria, Theatremania 3. The Periodical as a Manifesto 4. Orient and Orientalism 5. A Mask for the Commedia dell' Arte 6. 'Gentlemen, the Marionette' 7. Masks!
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Per Edward Gordon Craig, oggi.

2019
L'articolo discute lo stato dell'arte degli studi su Edward Gordon Craig e illustra i contributi degli atti del Convegno Internazionale, Per Edward Gordon Craig nel cinquecentenario della morte (1966-2016), Firenze, Teatro della Pergola, 24-25 novembre 2016.
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Edward Gordon Craig

Educational Theatre Journal, 1967
André T. Tsai, Denis Bablet, Daphne Woodward, Andre T. Tsai   +3 more
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Edward Gordon Craig e la nascita del Moderno

Biblioteca teatrale : rivista trimestrale di studi e ricerche sullo spettacolo : 115/116, 2, 2015, 2017
Il saggio affronta la produzione teorica di Craig all'inizio del Novecento nel quadro del più complessivo processo dell'affermazione del Moderno come categoria estetica. L'argomento è trattato attraverso l'analisi di due concetti portanti: il processo di autofondazione della nozione di teatro come arte specifica e distinta dal lascito della ...
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