The Bernhardt Hamlet

Author : Gerda Taranow
Publisher : Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015040551197

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The Bernhardt Hamlet by Gerda Taranow Pdf

Critics regarded Sarah Bernhardt's interpretation of Hamlet in 1899 as the revelation of Shakespeare's tragedy in France. The Bernhardt Hamlet is the first to investigate that production and to explain its context and its impact upon the cultural life of the time. Bernhardt's most significant innovation was her rejection of romantic sensibility in favor of the revenge tradition. In assuming a male role, she remained within the theatrical tradition of travesti that came to full fruition in the nineteenth century. Classically trained, the 54-year-old Bernhardt refashioned the Hamlet inheritance with insight, vigor, and originality.

Author : Theresa Rebeck
Publisher : Concord Theatricals
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780573708091

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Bernhardt/Hamlet by Theresa Rebeck Pdf

Mark Twain wrote: “There are five kinds of actresses: bad actresses, fair actresses, good actresses, great actresses – and then there is Sarah Bernhardt.” In 1899, the international stage celebrity set out to tackle her most ambitious role yet: Hamlet. Theresa Rebeck’s new play rollicks with high comedy and human drama, set against the lavish Shakespearean production that could make or break Bernhardt’s career.

Author : Tony Howard
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2007-02-22
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780521864664

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Women as Hamlet by Tony Howard Pdf

A study of actresses playing the role of Hamlet on stage and screen.

Author : Robert Gottlieb
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2010-09-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780300168792

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Sarah by Robert Gottlieb Pdf

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.

Author : Peter Rader
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2019-08-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781476738383

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Playing to the Gods by Peter Rader Pdf

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 the rules to popularize the natural style of acting we celebrate today. Audiences across Europe and the Americas clamored to see the divine Sarah Bernhardt swoon—and she gave them their money’s worth. The world’s first superstar, she traveled with a chimpanzee named Darwin and a pet alligator that drank champagne, shamelessly supplementing her income by endorsing everything from aperitifs to beef bouillon, and spreading rumors that she slept in a coffin to better understand the macabre heroines she played. Eleonora Duse shied away from the spotlight. Born to a penniless family of itinerant troubadours, she disappeared into the characters she portrayed—channeling their spirits, she claimed. Her new, empathetic style of acting revolutionized the theater—and earned her the ire of Sarah Bernhardt in what would become the most tumultuous theatrical showdown of the nineteenth century. Bernhardt and Duse seduced each other’s lovers, stole one another’s favorite playwrights, and took to the world’s stages to outperform their rival in her most iconic roles. A scandalous, enormously entertaining history full of high drama and low blows, Playing to the Gods is the perfect “book for all of us who binge-watched Feud” (Daniel de Visé, author of Andy & Don: The Making of a Friendship and a Classic American TV Show).

Author : A. Guneratne
Publisher : Springer
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-30
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780230613737

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Shakespeare, Film Studies, and the Visual Cultures of Modernity by A. Guneratne Pdf

This book is the first in-depth cultural history of cinema's polyvalent and often contradictory appropriations of Shakespearean drama and performance traditions. The author argues that these adapatations have helped shape multiple aspects of film, from cinematic style to genre and narrative construction.

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 806 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1864
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NYPL:33433074891759

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Tragedies by William Shakespeare Pdf

Author : Hardin L. Aasand
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0838639461

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Stage Directions in Hamlet by Hardin L. Aasand Pdf

The subject of stage directions in 'Hamlet', those brief semiotic codes that are embellished by historical, theatrical, and cultural considerations, produces a rigorous examination in the fifteen essays contained in this collection. This volume encompasses essays that are guardedly inductive in their critical approaches, as well as those that critique modern productions that attempt to achieve Shakespearean effect through a modern aesthetic. The volume also includes essays that enunciate the production of stage business as a cultural interplay between productions and social agencies outside the theater.

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2010-02-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1616002190

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Hamlet by William Shakespeare Pdf

Author : Victoria Duckett
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2015-10-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780252097751

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Seeing Sarah Bernhardt by Victoria Duckett Pdf

The most famous stage actress of the nineteenth century, Sarah Bernhardt enjoyed a surprising renaissance when the 1912 multi-reel film Queen Elizabeth vaulted her to international acclaim. The triumph capped her already lengthy involvement with cinema while enabling the indefatigable actress to reinvent herself in an era of technological and generational change. Placing Bernhardt at the center of the industry's first two decades, Victoria Duckett challenges the perception of her as an anachronism unable to appreciate film's qualities. Instead, cinema's substitution of translated title cards for her melodic French deciphered Bernhardt for Anglo-American audiences. It also allowed the aging actress to appear in the kinds of longer dramas she could no longer physically sustain onstage. As Duckett shows, Bernhardt contributed far more than star quality. Her theatrical practice on film influenced how the young medium changed the visual and performing arts. Her promoting of experimentation, meanwhile, shaped the ways audiences looked at and understood early cinema. A leading-edge reappraisal of a watershed era, Seeing Sarah Bernhardt tells the story of an icon who bridged two centuries--and changed the very act of watching film.

Author : Jonathan Holmes
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Acting
ISBN : 9780415319584

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Merely Players? by Jonathan Holmes Pdf

This brings together for the first time the diverse voices of actors writing about their experiences of playing Shakespeare.

Author : Marvin W. Hunt
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2007-12-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230611375

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Looking for Hamlet by Marvin W. Hunt Pdf

A mysterious, melancholic, brooding Hamlet has gripped and fascinated four hundred years' of readers, trying to "find" and know him as he searches for and avenges his father's name. Setting itself apart from the usual discussions about Hamlet, Hunt here demonstrates that Hamlet is much more than we take him to be. Much more than the sum of his parts--more than just tragic, sexy youth and more than just vain cruelty--Hamlet is a reflection of our own aspirations and neuroses. Looking for Hamlet investigates our many searches for Hamlet, from their origins in Danish mythology through the complex problems of early printed texts, through the centuries of shifting interpretations of the young prince to our own time when Hamlet is more compelling and perplexing than ever before. Hunt presents Hamlet as a sort of missing person, the idealized being inside oneself. This search for the missing Hamlet, Hunt argues, reveals a present absence readers pursue as a means of finding and identifying ourselves.

Author : Christin Essin
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2021-09-20
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780472054961

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Working Backstage by Christin Essin Pdf

Places backstage workers in the spotlight to acknowledge their essential roles in creating Broadway magic

Author : Vicki Callahan
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2010-04-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780814336878

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Reclaiming the Archive by Vicki Callahan Pdf

Reclaiming the Archive: Feminism and Film History brings together a diverse group of international feminist scholars to examine the intersections of feminism, history, and feminist theory in film. Editor Vicki Callahan has assembled essays that reflect a range of methodological approaches—including archival work, visual culture, reception studies, biography, ethno-historical studies, historiography, and textual analysis—by a diverse group of film and media studies scholars to prove that feminist theory, film history, and social practice are inevitably and productively intertwined. Essays in Reclaiming the Archive investigate the different models available in feminist film history and how those feminist strategies might serve as paradigmatic for other sites of feminist intervention. Chapters have an international focus and range chronologically from early cinema to post-feminist texts, organized around the key areas of reception, stars, and authorship. A final section examines the very definitions of feminism (post-feminism), cinema (transmedia), and archives (virtual and online) in place today. The essays in Reclaiming the Archive prove that a significant heritage of film studies lies in the study of feminism in film and feminist film theory. Scholars of film history and feminist studies will appreciate the breadth of work in this volume.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 573 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780198117353

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The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare by Anonim Pdf