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BIRD DANCER - HAMLET 1927

Edward Gordon Craig (1872 – 1966)

Details

Dimension
15.9 X 10.2 CM
Media
WOODCUT
Accession number
P2401

Summary

These ‘black figures’ originated as wooden cutouts, carried around in Craig’s pocket and used on a model stage to direct the Russian actors of Stanislavski’s troupe as to how the action of Hamlet should unfold. Only later were the Hamlet figures inked and printed, and with others especially cut, published in the Cranach edition of the play in 1927.