1st Edition
The Mask: A Periodical Performance by Edward Gordon Craig
Edited By Olga Taxidou
Copyright 1998
216 Pages
by
Routledge
216 Pages
by
Routledge
216 Pages
by
Routledge
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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.... Read more
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! Masks! Masks!: Authorship and Narrative in the Periodical Bibliography Index
Biography
Taxidou, Olga
