“I always was a little mad. So are most of you, of course, but anyhow I was—as a young man—as a middle-aged man—and now in old age. I therefore beg of you, the sane ones, to deal gently with mad people, so that a coming generation may learn not to be quite so hard on them as my generation has been on us.”
Who was Gordon Craig? Easiest to answer, “the son of Ellen Terry,” and let it go at that. Truly he was un homme du théâtre—no specific occupation. The typographical border which frames an EGC silhouette in the Penguin edition (1948) of his Designs for the Theatre reads:
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