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Craig (Edward Gordon).- Yeats (William Butler) - Plays
Craig (Edward Gordon).- Yeats (William Butler) - Plays
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first edition , plates by Edward Gordon Craig, original cloth-backed boards, paper label on spine, uncut, spine browned, London & Stratford-upon-Avon, Shakespeare Head Press, 1911 § Sheringham (G.) & R.Boyd Morrison, editors, for Rupert Mason. Robes of Thespis: Costume Designs by Modern Artists, plates, some colour, some by Craig, foxing, 1928 § Goldoni (Carlo) The Liar, introduction by Gordon Craig, number 170 of 260 copies, plates and illustrations by C.Lovat Fraser, flyer for production of the play loosely inserted, 1922 § MacKaye (Percy) My Lady Dear, Arise! Songs and Sonnets in Remembrance of Marion Morse MacKaye, title-vignette by Gordon Craig (reproduced on upper cover), inscribed by the author on front free endpaper, Basle, 1940, all but the first original pictorial cloth, gilt, the second with figure of Thespis by Craig on upper cover, the last with frayed dust-jacket, [F & R C17(a), C23(a), B6(a) & cf.C28(a)] ; and another copy of the last, 8vo & 4to (5) Yeats had seen Craig's production of Dido & Aeneas and was very impressed. His ideas of visual theatre using screens to evoke mood suited Yeats's poetic drama, and so Craig gave Yeats a model theatre with miniature screens for Yeats to manoevure while he wrote his plays. "All summer I have been playing with a little model, where there is a scene capable of endless transformation, of the expression of every mood that does not require a photographic reality." Yeats, Preface. Craig then permitted him to use full-size screens, devised for his production of Hamlet in Moscow in 1912, for The Deliverer and The Hour-Glass at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin, their first appearance in public. He also designed the costumes for The Hour-Glass.
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Craig (Edward Gordon).- Yeats (William Butler) - Plays

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