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Epic Party - Essay Example lan for a "School for the Art of the Theatre," sponsored by his admirers Yeats and Pound, he toyed with the idea that the school would "produce ONLY Hamlet" (although in so varied and imaginative a way that the production "will be able to be visited many times without the audience being able to say we have seen it before"). The play was to be repeated, with a difference, over and over again. World War I put an end to these plans; the space was requisitioned for another purpose, and the model stages dismantled. 35 This left the Kessler Hamlet, the Cranach Press Hamlet, as the only form in which Craig would realize his ideal "production" of the play. Craigs drawings for Stanislavski had included his famous "black figures," cutout characters in dramatic poses, included in photographs as three-dimensional cardboard or wooden miniatures, designed to communicate with the actors for the Moscow Hamlet. 36 Intrigued by the black figures, which looked uncannily like woodcuts, Count Harry Kessler, who had long been his patron and promoter in Germany, proposed that Craig might illustrate something for the Cranach Press: perhaps Antony and Cleopatra, or  Miltons Comus. To which Craig is said to have replied that they might as well do Hamlet.† (Easton, L.M.) The birthday present for Milton will be the DVD of a movie titled The Devil’s Advocate (1997) and the reason for chosen present is the relevance of this movie with that of Milton’s epic ‘Paradise Lost’.