An epic yet intimate portrait of two theatrical dynasties, which
takes us from the Victorian stage to the modern age.
Ellen Terry was a natural actress who filled the theatre with a
magical radiance." The Times "called her the "uncrowned queen of
England," but behind her public success lay a darker story. The
child bride of G.F. Watts, she eloped with a friend of Oscar
Wilde's at the age of twenty-one and gave birth to two illegitimate
children.
But her greatest partnership was on stage with Henry Irving. At the
Lyceum Theatre in London, the two of them created a grand Cathedral
of the Arts. Their intimately involved lives exceeded in plot the
Shakespearean dramas they performed on stage -- and indeed were
curiously affected by them. They also influenced the life and work
of their remarkable children, Ellen's children in particular. Edy
Craig founded a feminist theatre group, The Pioneer Players. Her
brother, Edward Gordon Craig, the revolutionary stage designer who
collaborated with Stanislavski is revealed by this book to be the
forgotten man of modernism. He had thirteen children by eight
women. He is, perhaps, the most extraordinary man Michael Holroyd
has ever written about.
"From the Hardcover edition."
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