Her other project, with the help of Elizabeth Chanler Chapman, wife of the prominent American writer John Jay Chapman, and the Marchesa Etta de Viti de Marco (formerly Etta Dunham of Boston) was to look after Duse.
This is a new release of the original 1924 edition.
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....
The riveting story of the rivalry between the two most renowned actresses of the nineteenth century: legendary Sarah Bernhardt, whose eccentricity on and off the stage made her the original diva, and mystical Eleonora Duse, who broke all ...
This is not a definitive biography for no work that has life as its root can ever be rigidly set.
The Mystic in the Theatre: Eleonora Duse
Reproduction of the original: The Princess of Bagdad by Alexandre Dumas
Gabriele d'Annunzio, born Gaetano Rapagnetta (1863-1938) was an Italian poet, writer, novelist, dramatist, womanizer and daredevil who went on to have a controversial role in politics as figure-head of the Italian Fascist movement and ...
Though the Bernhardt literature is vast, this is the first English-language biography to appear in decades, tracking the trajectory through which an illegitimate--and scandalous--daughter of a Jewish courtesan transformed herself into the ...
A novel based on the life of Eleanora Duse.