Hamlet Dragging Polonius. by GORDON CRAIG, Edward.

Hamlet Dragging Polonius. by GORDON CRAIG, Edward. < >
“this Counsayler
Is now most still, most secret, and most grave, Who was in life a foolish prating knave” (Hamlet on Polonius)

~ Hamlet Dragging Polonius.

c.1928

Original wood engraving on Japanese paper. Signed by the artist with his monogram EGC. A good well, inked impression.
Image size 16 x 7 cm. Mounted.

Hamlet has slain the eavesdropping Polonius and drags him from his mother’s chamber.
The illustration appears on p.113 of the English and p.119 of the German, edition of the Cranach Press Hamlet.

No. 15 in Newman’s ‘The Black Figures of Edward Gordon Craig’.
Stock ref: 12874
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