Sarah
Sarah

Author: Robert Gottlieb

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2010-09-21

Total Pages: 219

ISBN-13: 0300168799

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Everything about Sarah Bernhardt is fascinating, from her obscure birth to her glorious career--redefining the very nature of her art--to her amazing (and highly public) romantic life, to her indomitable spirit. Well into her seventies, after the amputation of her leg, she was performing under bombardment for soldiers during World War I and toured America for the ninth time. 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 most famous actress who ever lived, and into a national icon, a symbol of France.--From publisher description.

Sarah Bernhardt's First American Theatrical Tour, 1880-1881
Sarah Bernhardt's First American Theatrical Tour, 1880-1881

Author: Patricia Marks

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2003-03-13

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 9780786414956

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On October 15, 1880, with great excitement and fanfare, two Sarah Bernhardts set sail for New York from Le Havre for a theatrical tour of the United States. One wanted to introduce French culture to a backward country, and the other wanted to make money. As an actress, she behaved in a fashion that amused and scandalized her audiences, and as a woman, she was an unwed mother and a shrewd businessperson. Bernhardt's multiple personas and "otherness" were what fascinated the American public; her name, her eccentricities, and her genius had already made her world famous. Sarah Bernhardt's first American theatrical tour, from her arrival in 1880 to her return to Europe in May 1881, is chronicled here. She traveled as far west as Kansas City and as far south as New Orleans, all the while sparking cultural commentary about her performances, her artwork, and her lifestyle. This book provides an overview of the contemporary reviews, caricatures and satires, considers Bernhardt's reception by the American press and American audiences, and discusses the way in which the Bernhardt iconography was created and the assumptions that underlie it.

Masquerade and Identities
Masquerade and Identities

Author: Efrat Tseëlon

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2003-08-29

Total Pages: 204

ISBN-13: 1134530706

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Masquerade, both literal and metaphorical, is now a central concept on many disciplines. This timely volume explores and revisits the role of disguise in constructing, expressing and representing marginalised identities, and in undermining easy distinctions between 'true' identity and artifice. The book is interdisciplinary in approach, spanning a diverse range of cultures and narrative voices. It provides provocative and nuanced ways of thinking about masquerade as a tool for construction, and a tool for critique. The essays interrogate such themes as: *mask and carnival *fetish fashion *stigma of illegitimacy *femininity as masquerade *lesbian masks *cross-dressing in Jewish folk theatre *the mask in seventeenth and eighteenth century London and nineteenth century France *the voice as mask.

Seeberger Kids Days
Seeberger Kids Days

Author: Georg Satirev

Publisher: novum publishing

Published: 2024-08-01

Total Pages: 218

ISBN-13: 1642682829

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It's about the question of the "right life". When Paul receives a life-threatening diagnosis, the answer is all the more urgent. Together with his friend, he begins a journey through time, back to the days of his childhood. Paul's grandparents' conventional philosophy of life, which always found its own individual expression while safeguarding their own interests, makes his carefree childhood at Lake Starnberg appear in a different light in retrospect. By interweaving the 1950s with the present, Paul comes closer to understanding. And even if, from today's perspective, he considers quite a few of the arrangements of the time to be questionable, his benevolent, appreciative attitude brings him very close to "life lived properly".