Lelia

Author : Harold George Scott
Publisher : Pelican Publishing
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-03
Category : Ballerinas
ISBN : 1455607274

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Lelia by Harold George Scott Pdf

Harold George Scott captures the most memorable moments of Lelia Haller�s career with lavish illustrations and photographs. A pictorial biography of one of the twentieth century�s most notable ballerinas, Lelia documents the career of the only American honored as premi�re danseuse of the Paris Op�ra. Lelia�s experience in the world of dance takes her from beginnings in New Orleans to Germany, Spain, France, Italy, the Netherlands, England, and back to New Orleans, where she opened Studio de Danse. On these travels, she danced alongside other great dancers--such as Italian ballerina, Carlotta Zambelli--and trained under Russian ballet master, Nicolas Legat.

Author : Laura Giannetti
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780802099518

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Lelia's Kiss by Laura Giannetti Pdf

In Lelia's Kiss, Laura Giannetti offers a new perspective on the way gender and marriage were portrayed, imagined, and critiqued on stage during the Italian Renaissance. Going beyond the traditional canon, Giannetti focuses her study on the social and cultural scripts found in a wide array of comedies of the period to reveal the relativity of sex and gender roles and their cultural construction in Renaissance society. Giannetti argues that the comedic dialogue and cross-dressing characters so prevalent in Italian Renaissance comedies played with the presuppositions of the day and engaged with contemporary social norms, expectations, and desires. Cross-dressing female characters reveal the relativity of sex and gender roles, and also present a vision of female empowerment. At the same time, cross-dressing male characters suggest a unique perception of the male life cycle that was more uncertain and contested than often assumed, and show more broadly how masculinity was also socially and culturally constructed. In discussing marriage, sexuality, and gender roles, the comedies deploy a social scripting that not only reflects and comments on the everyday life of the time, but also interacts with it with playful humor and revealing insight.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1879
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:HNRMDR

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Masquerading for Two by Anonim Pdf

Author : George Sand
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 702 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1548914665

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Lelia by George Sand Pdf

Clopinet, jeune paysan légèrement boiteux et surtout très rêveur s'éloigne du monde des hommes pour se rapprocher des oiseaux... En peu de temps, il devient l'ami et le plus grand connaisseur des oiseaux de la région. Il vaincra un à un tous les obstacles, grâce à ses « ailes de courage », symbole de toute ascension et de liberté...

Author : Noël Coward
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 626 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2011-09-06
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780307474872

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The Noël Coward Reader by Noël Coward Pdf

The Noël Coward Reader offers a wonderfully wide-ranging selection—the first of its kind—of the best of the Master’s oeuvre, entertainingly annotated and abundantly illustrated, and including material that has never before been published. Here are scenes from Coward’s famous plays, from Private Lives to Blithe Spirit, and his screenplays, from Brief Encounter to In Which We Serve. Here are four of his best short stories, scenes from his only novel, and a generous selection of his verse, alongside the lyrics of many of his most sublime songs, including “Mad Dogs and Englishmen,” “The Stately Homes of England,” and “Mad About the Boy.” The Noël Coward Reader is a must-have book both for those who adore his work and for those who are just discovering the many-faceted delights of his comic genius.

Author : A'Lelia Bundles
Publisher : Scribner
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780743431729

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On Her Own Ground by A'Lelia Bundles Pdf

Soon to be a Netflix series starring Octavia Spencer, On Her Own Ground is the first full-scale biography of “one of the great success stories of American history” (The Philadelphia Inquirer), Madam C.J. Walker—the legendary African American entrepreneur and philanthropist—by her great-great-granddaughter, A’Lelia Bundles. The daughter of formerly enslaved parents, Sarah Breedlove—who would become known as Madam C. J. Walker—was orphaned at seven, married at fourteen, and widowed at twenty. She spent the better part of the next two decades laboring as a washerwoman for $1.50 a week. Then—with the discovery of a revolutionary hair care formula for black women—everything changed. By her death in 1919, Walker managed to overcome astonishing odds: building a storied beauty empire from the ground up, amassing wealth unprecedented among black women, and devoting her life to philanthropy and social activism. Along the way, she formed friendships with great early-twentieth-century political figures such as Ida B. Wells, Mary McLeod Bethune, W.E.B. Du Bois, and Booker T. Washington.

Author : Henry Morley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : English literature
ISBN : UOM:39015067093305

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English Writers by Henry Morley Pdf

Author : Noël Coward
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2018-02-22
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781350040137

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Coward Plays: Nine by Noël Coward Pdf

Coward Plays: 9 offers up a fascinating selection of Noël Coward's lesser-known works. Salute to the Brave/Time Remembered (1940) follows Leila Heseldyne after she has fled to America, leaving a war-torn Britain and her husband behind; Long Island Sound(1947) sees a writer coerced into a riotous flock of high flying society people with turbulent results; and Volcano (1957) depicts a volcanic eruption as it punctuates the dubious conduct of six individuals on a fictional South Sea island. This volume also includes Design for Rehearsing (1933) was Coward's private satire on the way he , Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne worked on Design for Living. Age Cannot Wither (1967), Coward's last and unfinished play completes the collection as it portrays the boozy reunion of three women in their sixties, who meet without fail every year to reminisce. Together, these works offer a new and intriguing insight into Coward the playwright and his oeuvre that extends well beyond his most well-known works such as Private Lives, Blithe Spirit and Hay Fever. The volume is introduced by Coward expert and scholar Barry Day.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 652 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1871
Category : Yachting
ISBN : NYPL:33433066643143

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Hunt's Yachting Magazine by Anonim Pdf

Author : Raymond Carney
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2019-07-25
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781838718114

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Shadows by Raymond Carney Pdf

Shadows (1959), John Cassavetes' first film as director, ends with the title card - 'The film you have just seen was an improvisation'. Just before his death, however, Cassavetes confessed to Ray Carney something he had never before revealed - that much of his so-called 'masterpiece of improvisation' was actually written by him and Robert Alan Aurthur, a professional Hollywood screenwriter. In the ten years that followed Carney tracked down all of the surviving members of the cast and crew in order to piece together the true story of the making of Shadows. This book is the result of that research. Carney takes the reader behind the scenes to follow every step in the creation of the film - chronicling the hopes and dreams, the struggles and frustrations, and the ultimate triumph of their collaboration on one of the seminal masterworks of American independent film-making.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1873
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NYPL:33433081660361

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The Irish Monthly Magazine of Politics and Literature. ... by Anonim Pdf

Author : Thomas Love Peacock
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 834 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1875
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:300073296

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The Works of Thomas Love Peacock: Poetry. Miscellanies. Four ages of poetry. Horæ dramaticæ, no. 1-3 . Shelley. Shelley letters by Thomas Love Peacock Pdf

Author : Thomas Love Peacock
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1875
Category : English literature
ISBN : UCAL:B3327471

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Poetry. Miscellanies. Four ages of poetry. Horæ dramaticæ, no. 1-3 . Shelley. Shelley letters by Thomas Love Peacock Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1873
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015012330935

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Irish Monthly Magazine by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1873
Category : Literature
ISBN : UFL:31262098804437

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The Irish Monthly Magazine by Anonim Pdf