The Shoemaker's Holiday or the Gentle Craft is an Elizabethan play written by Thomas Dekker. The play was first performed in 1599 by the Admiral's Men, and it falls into the subgenre of city comedy. T
Title page of the first edition, 1600
Title page of The Famous Victories of Henry the Fifth
Stage production of The Shoemaker's Holiday in 1938
Marian Warring-Manley as Margery, Whitford Kane as Simon Eyre, and George Coulouris as the King in the Mercury Theatre production of The Shoemaker's Holiday (1938)
George Alexander Coulouris was an English stage and screen actor, perhaps best known for his collaborations with Orson Welles.
Coulouris as Thatcher in Citizen Kane (1941)
Marc Antony (George Coulouris) addresses the crowd in the Mercury Theatre production of Caesar (1937), a modern-dress production that evoked comparison to contemporary Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany
Harry Shannon, George Coulouris and Agnes Moorehead in Citizen Kane (1941)