Woodcuts and Some Words: Edward Gordon Craig's lasting impressions.

This article examines Edward Gordon Craig's analogy between drama and wood engraving, stage and printed page in his autobiographical handbook on wood engraving, Woodcuts and Some Words (1924). It explores the semantic shift of the notion of impression, from the symbolist realm of suggestion to that of modernist imprint, by taking Craig's interest in the world of print as materialization of his "new theatre" as a premise. It finally seeks to determine the significance of engraving in Craig's career, a medium that was the matrix, the relic and the archive of the images and of the ideal vision he pursued all his life. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]