ABSTRACT
If we were to trace the history of the theatrical mask in the last century of the second millennium, we should first refer to the adventure that the English director and set designer Edward Gordon Craig (1872–1966) had both with the theatre and with the theatrical mask – virtually unknown in the late nineteenth century – which he somehow resurrected from the limbo of a distant past. The son of Ellen Terry – one of the greatest British actresses of all time – he was one of the major scenic innovators of the twentieth century, and the only one to come directly from a stage background.
