Journal article
“Symbols in Silence”: Edward Gordon Craig and the Engraving of Wordless Drama
Theatre survey, Vol.54(2), pp.207-230
05/2013
DOI: 10.1017/S0040557413000033
Abstract
In his book On the Art of the Theatre (1911), Edward Gordon Craig recounted seeing a sign on the stage door at the Munich Künstlertheater that momentarily made him think he had discovered “heaven.” “Sprechen Streng Verboten” (speaking strictly forbidden), it read. So eager was he to find comrades who shared his radical vision of a wordless drama that Craig had misread an ordinary request for backstage silence as a ban on onstage speech. Although he sadly admitted that the German theatre was not as advanced as he had hoped, Craig insisted that the sign contained the “clue” to a modern theatrical renaissance—one he believed himself fully prepared to begin, if only someone else would provide the funds.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- “Symbols in Silence”: Edward Gordon Craig and the Engraving of Wordless Drama
- Creators
- Jennifer Buckley
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Theatre survey, Vol.54(2), pp.207-230
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press; New York, USA
- DOI
- 10.1017/S0040557413000033
- ISSN
- 0040-5574
- eISSN
- 1475-4533
- Number of pages
- 24
- Alternative title
- Theatre Survey; Symbols in Silence
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 05/2013
- Academic Unit
- English; Theatre Arts
- Record Identifier
- 9984002415502771
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