In 1926, the great English theatrical visionary Edward Gordon Craig found himself involved in a production of Ibsen’s The Pretenders at the Danish Royal Theatre in Copenhagen. Why he chose to get involved with “a reputable but distinctly out-ofthe- way state theatre, well removed, if only by virtue of the language barrier, from the mainstream of European theatrical activity” is only one of many questions that are approached by two of Canada’s foremost scholars of Scandinavian drama and theatre, Frederick and Lise-Lone Marker of the University of Toronto in their new study, Edward Gordon Craig and The Pretenders.