Edith Craig and the Theatres of Art
«The book offers much by way of update ... useful to students and scholars alike.»
New Theatre Quarterly
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. Les mer
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.
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Methuen Drama
- Innbinding
- Innbundet
- Språk
- Engelsk
- Sider
- 328
- ISBN
- 9781472570628
- Utgivelsesår
- 2017
- Format
- 22 x 14 cm
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«The book offers much by way of update ... useful to students and scholars alike.»
New Theatre Quarterly
«Full of fascinating nuggets of information ... Edith Craig and the Theatres of Art presents a collage of Craig's achievements, celebrating her maverick career.»
Times Higher Education
«Cockin does a fine job here of recuperating this neglected yet important figure by bringing such intellectual and artistic intersections to light.»
Times Literary Supplement