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Edward Gordon Craig
English actor and director (1872–1966)
For other people with the same name, see Edward Craig (disambiguation).
Edward Henry Gordon Craig[notes 1]CH OBE (born Edward Godwin; 16 January 1872 – 29 July 1966), sometimes known as Gordon Craig, was an English modernisttheatre practitioner; he worked as an actor, director and scenic designer, as well as developing an influential body of theoretical writings.
Craig was the son of actress Dame Ellen Terry.
The Gordon Craig Theatre, built in Stevenage (the town of his birth), was named in his honour in 1975.
The English actor and set designer Gordon Craig (1872-1966), along with the Swiss theorist Adolphe Appia, created methods for implementing Richard Wagner's.Life and family
The illegitimate son of the architect Edward Godwin and the actress Ellen Terry,[1] Craig was born Edward Godwin on 16 January 1872 in Railway Street, Stevenage, in Hertfordshire, England, and baptised at age 16 as Edward Henry Gordon.
He attended Bradfield College in Berkshire from May 1886 to July 1887. He took the surname Craig by deed poll at age 21.