C. Walter Hodges

Cyril Walter Hodges (18 March 1909 – 26 November 2004)[1] was an English artist and writer best known for illustrating children's books and for helping to recreate Elizabethan theatre.

Among the writers for children with whom he collaborated as an illustrator were Ian Serraillier, Rosemary Sutcliff (The Eagle of the Ninth), Rhoda Power (Redcap Runs Away), Elizabeth Goudge (The Little White Horse) and William Mayne.

For that he won the annual Kate Greenaway Medal from the Library Association, recognising the year's best children's book illustration by a British subject.

[b] According to one library catalogue summary, Shakespeare's Theatre "[e]xamines how the pagan festivals and religious dramas performed throughout England evolved into the professional theaters, such as the Globe, in London.

[2] Hodges argued in one of his books that "the theatre as an institution is the pre-eminent arrangement whereby human beings work out the models of their own conduct, their morality and aspiration, their ideas of good and evil, and in general those fantasies about themselves and their fellows which, if persisted in, tend to eventually become facts in real life.