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Tragic Muse : Rachel of the Comédie-França ise Paperback Rachel M.
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- Publication Name
- Duke University Press
- ISBN
- 9780822315711
- Book Title
- Tragic Muse : Rachel of the Comédie-Française
- Item Length
- 9.8in
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Publication Year
- 1995
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.6in
- Genre
- Biography & Autobiography, Performing Arts
- Topic
- Theater / History & Criticism, General, Entertainment & Performing Arts
- Item Width
- 5.9in
- Item Weight
- 12.3 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 344 Pages
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The great nineteenth-century tragedienne known simply as Rachel was the first dramatic actress to achieve international fame. Composing her own persona with the same brilliance and passion she demonstrated on stage, she virtually invented the role of "star." Rumors of her extravagant life offstage delighted the audiences who flocked to theaters in Boston and Paris, London and Moscow, to see her perform in the tragedies of Racine and Corneille. In Tragic Muse , Rachel M. Brownstein reveals the life of la grande Rachel and explores--at the boundary of biography, fiction, and cultural history--the connections between this self-dramatizing woman and her image. Born to itinerant Jewish peddlers in 1821, Rachel arrived on the Paris stage at the age of fifteen. She became both a symbol of her culture's highest art and a clue to its values and obsessions. Fascinated with all things Napoleonic, she was the mother of Napoleon's grandson and the lover of many men connected to the emperor. Her story--the rise from humble beginnings to queen of the French state theater--echoes and parodies Napoleon's own. She decisively controlled her career, her time, and finances despite the actions and claims of managers, suitors, and lovers. A woman of exceptional charisma, Rachel embodied contradiction and paradox. She captured the attention of her time and was memorialized in the works of Matthew Arnold, Charlotte Bront , George Eliot, and Henry James. Richly illustrated with portraits, photographs, and caricatures, Tragic Muse combines brilliant literary analysis and exceptional historical research. With great skill and acuity, Rachel M. Brownstein presents Rachel--her brief intense life and the image that was both self-fashioned and, outliving her, fashioned by others. First published by Knopf (1993), this book will attract a broad audience interested in matters as wide ranging as the construction of character, the cult of celebrity, women's lives, and Jewish history. It will also be of enduring interest to readers concerned with nineteenth-century French culture, history, literature, theater, and Romanticism. Tragic Muse won the 1993 George Freedley Award presented by the Theater Library Association.
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Publisher
Duke University Press
ISBN-10
0822315718
ISBN-13
9780822315711
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1099725
Product Key Features
Book Title
Tragic Muse : Rachel of the Comédie-Française
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Theater / History & Criticism, General, Entertainment & Performing Arts
Publication Year
1995
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Performing Arts
Number of Pages
344 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.8in
Item Height
0.6in
Item Width
5.9in
Item Weight
12.3 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Pn2638.R3b7 1995
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"Rachel, the great tragic French Jewish actress, comes to us alive in this wonderful book. I have longed to read a fine book in English about the Tragic Muse of the French theater, and now, here it is."-Claire Bloom, "Rachel, the great tragic French Jewish actress, comes to us alive in this wonderful book. I have longed to read a fine book in English about the Tragic Muse of the French theater, and now, here it is."--Claire Bloom
Lccn
94-030101
Dewey Decimal
792/.028/092 B
Dewey Edition
20
Illustrated
Yes
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