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MS 685 01 07 05

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MS 685 01 07 05

Title

E.A. Craig collection: Photocopy of Edward Gordon Craig’s 1914-1918 daybook

Level

Item

Date

1914-1918

Extent & medium

86 pp.

Content description

Facsimile of a notebook used by Craig to record his ideas and his thoughts. Included throughout the daybook are photographs, including the places he visited, his workrooms and his designs. It also includes newspaper cuttings that interested Gordon Craig, or which relate to his work, as well as some of his rough sketches and designs.

The entries cover Craig’s time in Italy. It includes comments on the theatre and his theatrical theories; the Arena Goldoni; Ellen Terry and notes on his financial affairs. Some of the pages and photographs have later annotations by Gordon Craig dating from the 1930s-1950s
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