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Bernhardt and the Theatre of Her Time

Bernhardt and the Theatre of Her Time

Salmon, Eric
Salmon, Eric

Hardcover

Series: Contributions in Drama and Theatre Studies, Book 6

Biographies GeneralGeneral DramaGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 0313237557
ISBN13: 9780313237553
Publisher: Praeger
Published: Feb 10 1984
Pages: 302
Weight: 1.17
Height: 0.81 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Sarah Bernhardt, possibly the greatest actress of the late nineteenth century, was a symbol of French Romantic theatre at its height and of the melodramatic excesses that led to its demise. The theatre of Bernhardt's time was changing rapidly, and Salmon depicts this change as it was reflected in her roles, temperament, and approach to acting. This book reexamines Sarah Bernhardt, not solely as an individual, but in comparison with other contemporary thespians and their styles and approaches to theatrical performance. The romantic vision of Bernhardt and her contemporaries in time produced the emotionalism, vulgarity, sensationalism, and empty spectacle that typified Romanticism in decline, and pushed it into the deeper channels of fin-de-siecle naturalism. This study explores the complex relationship between art and craft, between art and its creator, between celebrity or notoriety and real achievement, and between Romantic Theatre a la Bernhardt and other theatrical expressions of Romanticism.

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