The Mask: the documental performance of Edward Gordon Craig and Dorothy Nevile Lees
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Gordon Craig, The Mask, Dorothy Nevile LeesAbstract
Edward Gordon Craig has created in his renowned periodical The Mask a creative environment that surpassed the journalistic function. In addition to the originality of being a publication exclusively dedicated to the art of theater, it also has given rise to a unique artistic language: simultaneously a literary and performative place, in which Craig has interfaced, in a ludic way, his ideas for a theatrical renewal with a meticulous documental effort both by retrieving old texts hunted in archives and by offering a niche for the historical record of the different vanguards of the early twentieth century. The historical figure of coeditor Dorothy Nevile Lees, a journalist and writer who has shared with Craig the maintenance of The Mask for twenty years and has been custodian of such material for posterity, whose name has been unfairly obscured by Craig, is rescued.
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