Author: Clara MorrisPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3752414553
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: Life on the Stage by Clara Morris
Life on the Stage
Author: Clara MorrisPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3752414553
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: Life on the Stage by Clara Morris
A Spectacle of Suffering
Author: Barbara Wallace GrossmanPublisher: SIU Press
ISBN: 0809387298
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Once called "America's greatest actress," renowned for the passion and power of her performances, Clara Morris (1847-1925) has been largely forgotten. A Spectacle of Suffering: Clara Morris on the American Stage is the first full-length study of the actress's importance as a feminist in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Detailing her daunting health problems and the changing tastes in entertainment that led to her retirement from the stage, Barbara Wallace Grossman explores Morris's dramatic reinvention as an author. During a second robust career, she published hundreds of newspaper and magazine articles and nine books—six works of fiction and three memoirs. Grossman draws on the fifty-four-volume diary that Morris kept from 1868 until 1924, as well as on the manuscript fragments and notes of journalist George T. MacAdam, who died in 1929 before completing the actress's biography. Grossman provides a dramatic account of Morris's life and work from her troubled early years, through an unhappy marriage, morphine addiction, and invalidism, to the challenges of touring, the decline of her artistic reputation, and the demands of the writing career she pursued so tenaciously. A Spectacle of Suffering reveals how Morris, even after experiencing blindness and the loss of her home, livelihood, and family, did not succumb to despair and found comfort in the small pleasures of her circumscribed life. A Spectacle of Suffering recovers an important figure in American theatre and ensures that Morris will be remembered not simply as an actress but as a respected writer and beloved public figure, admired for her courage in dealing with adversity. The book, which is enhanced by twenty-four illustrations, is the only published biography of Clara Morris. It is as much a tribute to the power of the human spirit as it is an effective means of exploring American theatre and society in the Gilded Age.
Vanity Fair
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Caricatures and cartoons
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
Appletons' Journal
Author: The Influence of Pre-Raphaelitism on Fin de Siècle Italy
Author: Giuliana PieriPublisher: MHRA
ISBN: 1904350445
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
This volume is the first comprehensive study of the influence of English Pre-Raphaelitism on Italian art and culture in the late nineteenth century. Analysis of the cultural relations between Italy and Britain has focused traditionally on the special place that Italy had in the British imagination, but the cultural and artistic exchanges between the two countries have been much misunderstood. This book aims to correct this imbalance by placing Pre-Rapahelitism in its European context. It explores the nature of its influence on Italy, how it was transmitted, and how it was manifested, by focusing on the role of Italian Anglophiles, the English communities in Florence and Rome, the writings of Gabriele D'Annunzio, and a number of Italian artists active in Tuscany and Rome. The works of Cellini, Ricci, Gioja, De Carolis, and Sartorio in particular fully demonstrate the impact of Pre-Raphaelitism on the young Italian school of painting which found in the English movement an ideal link with its glorious past on which it could build a new artistic identity. These artists show that English Pre-Raphaelitism was one of the most powerful single influences on fin-de-siecle Italian culture.
The Wallet of Time
Author: William WinterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Actors
Languages : en
Pages : 778
Book Description
The New Monthly Magazine and Literary Journal
Author: The present time
Author: Brander MatthewsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Actors
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
Actors and Actresses of Great Britain and the United States from the Days of David Garrick to the Present Time
Author: The Life and Art of Edwin Booth and His Contemporaries
Author: Laurence HuttonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Actors
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description