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Creator
Date
2017
Location
London, UK
England
England
Media format
Printed text
Extent
xv, 312 pages
Language
English
Size
23 cm
Reference IDs
Folger bibliographic ID: 353734
Folger call number: PN2598.C84 C65 2017
Folger holdings ID: 502096
Folger call number: PN2598.C84 C65 2017
Folger holdings ID: 502096
Summary
"This new biography explores the extraordinary life of Edith Craig (1869-1947), her prolific work in the theatre and her political endeavours for women's suffrage and socialism. At London's Lyceum Theatre in its heyday she worked alongside her mother, Ellen Terry, Henry Irving and Bram Stoker, and gained valuable experience. She was a key figure in creating innovative art theatre work. As director and founder of the Pioneer Players in 1911 she supported the production of women's suffrage drama, becoming a pioneer of theatre aimed at social reform. In 1915 she assumed a leading role with the Pioneer Players in bringing international art theatre to Britain and introducing London audiences to expressionist and feminist drama from Nikolai Evreinov to Susan Glaspell. She captured the imagination of Virginia Woolf, inspiring the portrait of Miss LaTrobe in her 1941 novel Between the Acts, and influenced a generation of actors, such as Sybil Thorndike and Edith Evans. Frequently eclipsed in accounts of theatrical endeavour by her younger brother, Edward Gordon Craig, Edith Craig's contribution both to theatre and to the women's suffrage movement receives timely reappraisal in Katharine Cockin's meticulously researched and wide-ranging biography, released for the seventieth anniversary of Craig's death "--
Notes
General notes
Includes bibliographical references and index
Contents
Introduction : Edith Craig retrospectives -- 1869-1902 : her mother's daughter : the Lyceum's apprentice -- 1903-07 : the new woman experiments and the genealogy of the 'Scala masque' -- 1907-1914 : the art of women's suffrage theatre and the 'fire of Prometheus' -- 1911-25 : the Pioneer Players as London's art theatre -- 1915-25 : post-war recreation and the nativity play -- 1919-46 : the Little Theatre mission : pilgrims and pageants -- Conclusion : on the theatres of art
Also known as
Extended title: Edith Craig and the theatres of art / Katharine Cockin
Subjects
Related names
author: Cockin, Katharine, 1963-
subject: Craig, Edith, 1869-1947
subject: Craig, Edith, 1869-1947