The World's Greatest Peace Play. A Souvenir of The Chicago Little Theatre Company's Tour of America in Gilbert Murray's Translation of The Trojan Women of Euripides, 1915
Chicago: The Little Chicago Theatre
2599
Small quarto. 16pp. Photographs throughout, plus a color plate showing a backdrop for a scene from The Trojan Women. With an essays by Murray, who was at the time Regius...
Small quarto. 16pp. Photographs throughout, plus a color plate showing a backdrop for a scene from The Trojan Women. With an essays by Murray, who was at the time Regius Professor of Greek at Oxford and the newly-minted President of the Society for Psychical Research. Murray's texts praise Euripides and his enduring stylistic triumphs, but especially notable is the anti-colonial sentiment underpinning his descriptions of the scenarios. Murray was not himself a conscientious objector, but held throughout his life a firm conviction against British imperialism, especially regarding Ireland and Australia. The avant-garde Chicago Little Theatre was founded in 1913 by Ella Van Volkenberg and Maurice Browne, who had been inspired by Lady Gregory's Abbey Theatre. Its high modernist attitude is here best reflected in the souvenir pamphlet's covers of stiff black card with stylized Trojan woman in blue, red, and yellow at the front cover. Light edgewear, else very good.


