Eleonora Duse In Life And Art
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Eleonora Duse In Life And Art
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Author : Giovanni Pontiero
language : en
Publisher: Frankfurt am Main ; New York : V.P. Lang
Release Date : 1986
Eleonora Duse In Life And Art written by Giovanni Pontiero and has been published by Frankfurt am Main ; New York : V.P. Lang this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1986 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
This new biography of the Italian actress Eleonora Duse (1858-1924) traces her progress from obscurity to international acclaim as one of the most charismatic and influential actresses of her generation. A true pioneer in the theatre, Duse perfected an introspective style of acting which left critics and audiences spellbound. Vision and courage were the hallmark of her unique personality and no sacrifice was too great in her untiring quest for a «theatre of poetry».
Eleonora Duse
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Author : Helen Sheehy
language : en
Publisher: Knopf
Release Date : 2009-02-04
Eleonora Duse written by Helen Sheehy and has been published by Knopf this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-02-04 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
A new biography, the first in two decades, of the legendary actress who inspired Anton Chekhov, popularized Henrik Ibsen, and spurred Stanislavski to create a new theory of acting based on her art and to invoke her name at every rehearsal. Writers loved her and wrote plays for her. She be-friended Rainer Maria Rilke and inspired the young James Joyce, who kept a portrait of her on his desk. Her greatest love, the poet d’Annunzio, made her the heroine of his novel Il fuoco (The Flame). She radically changed the art of acting: in a duel between the past and the future, she vanquished her rival, Sarah Bernhardt. Chekhov said of her, “I’ve never seen anything like it. Looking at Duse, I realized why the Russian theatre is such a bore.” Charlie Chaplin called her “the finest thing I have seen on the stage.” Gloria Swanson and Lillian Gish watched her perform with adoring attention, John Barrymore with awe. Shaw said she “touches you straight on the very heart.” When asked about her acting, Duse responded that, quite simply, it came from life. Except for one short film, Duse’s art has been lost. Despite dozens of books about her, her story is muffled by legend and myth. The sentimental image that prevails is of a misty, tragic heroine victimized by men, by life; an artist of unearthly purity, without ambition. Now Helen Sheehy, author of the much admired biography of Eva Le Gallienne, gives us a different Duse—a woman of strength and resolve, a woman who knew pain but could also inflict it. “Life is hard,” she said, “one must wound or be wounded.” She wanted to reveal on the stage the truth about women’s lives and she wanted her art to endure. Drawing on newly discovered material, including Duse’s own memoir, and unpublished letters and notes, Sheehy brings us to an understanding of the great actress’s unique ways of working: Duse acting out of her sense of her character’s inner life, Duse anticipating the bold aspects of modernism and performing with a sexual freedom that shocked and thrilled audiences. She edited her characters’ lines to bare skeletons, asked for the simplest sets and costumes. Where other actresses used hysterics onstage, Duse used stillness. Sheehy writes about the Duse that the actress herself tried to hide—tracing her life from her childhood as a performing member of a family of actors touring their repertory of drama and commedia dell’arte through Italy. We follow her through her twenties and through the next four decades of commissioning and directing plays, running her own company, and illuminating a series of great roles that included Emile Zola’s Thérèse Raquin, Marguerite in Dumas’s La Dame aux camélias, Nora in Ibsen’s A Doll’s House, and Hedda in his Hedda Gabler. When she thought her beauty was fading at fifty-one, she gave up the stage, only to return to the theatre in her early sixties; she traveled to America and enchanted audiences across the country. She died as she was born—on tour. Sheehy’s illuminating book brings us as close as we have ever been to the woman and the artist.
The Life Of Eleonora Duse
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Author : Emil Alphons Rheinhardt
language : en
Publisher: New York : B. Blom
Release Date : 1969
The Life Of Eleonora Duse written by Emil Alphons Rheinhardt and has been published by New York : B. Blom this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1969 with Actors categories.
Wingless Victory
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Author : Frances Winwar
language : en
Publisher: New York : Harper
Release Date : 1956
Wingless Victory written by Frances Winwar and has been published by New York : Harper this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1956 with Actresses categories.
Eleonora Duse The Story Of Her Life
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Author : Vahdah Jeanne Bordeux
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1923
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The Mystic In The Theatre Eleonora Duse
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Author : Eva Le Gallienne
language : en
Publisher: London : Bodley Head
Release Date : 1966
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The Life Of Eleonora Duse
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Author : E. A. Rheinhardt
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1969
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The Colour Of Life
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Author : Alice Meynell
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1897
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Eleonora Duse
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Author : Sofia McQuaide De Bonis
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1924
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The Colour Of Life
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Author : Alice Meynell
language : en
Publisher: Good Press
Release Date : 2019-12-12
The Colour Of Life written by Alice Meynell and has been published by Good Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-12-12 with Fiction categories.
"So bright, so light, so soft, so mingled, the gentle colour of life is outdone by all the colours of the world. Its very beauty is that it is white, but less white than milk; brown, but less brown than earth; red, but less red than sunset or dawn. It is lucid, but less lucid than the colour of lilies. It has the hint of gold that is in all fine colour; but in our latitudes the hint is almost elusive..." 'The Colour of Life' is a collection of sketches, mainly centred on natural phenomena, written in a lyrical manner.