The Ghost Island of “The Mask”. The Craig-Lees Collaboration and the Strategies of Diffusion of the Journal
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Gabriele Sofia
Université Grenoble Alpes
Abstract
Gabriele Sofia analyses the way in which the material conditions of production and diffusion of “The Mask” determined the editorial slant and the selection of content. To this end, Sofia examines the role of Dorothy Nevile Lees, Craig’s closest collaborator, whose work on editing, translation, organisation and writing, which for a long time was considered to be of secondary importance, guaranteed the popularity and longevity that distinguished the journal (1908-1929).
Gabriele Sofia
Gabriele Sofia is a Maître de Conférences in performing arts at the Université Grenoble Alpes. He has studied the interaction between the performing arts and cognitive sciences, the history of acting techniques, and contemporary theatre policies. He has published the following books: Le acrobazie dello spettatore. Dal teatro alle neuroscienze e ritorno (Bulzoni, 2013) and L’arte di Giovanni Grasso e le rivoluzioni teatrali di Craig e Mejerchol’d (Bulzoni, 2019). Since 2014, he has been a member of the editorial board of “Teatro e Storia”.