My Double Life: The Memoirs of Sarah Bernhardt - Softcover

Bernhardt, Sarah

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1482078708 ISBN 13: 9781482078701

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2013

Synopsis

The French actress Sarah Bernhardt made an indelible mark on the 19th-century stage, though she was not particularly considered a "natural." Yet at some point she became the actress against whom all others were measured. In her autobiography, My Double Life: The Memoirs of Sarah Bernhardt (1907), she presents her preferred version of the story of her life.

My Double Life is the autobiography of the French actress Sarah Bernhardt, who was internationally famed during her lifetime and afterwards as one of the classical theater's all-time greatest stars. Bernhardt's memoirs are composed with a novelist's (or actress's) sense of artistry and suspense that leaves no doubt of the charisma for which she was famed in her "double life, " both on- and offstage. Yet at the same time as this book very consciously contributes to the crafting of her image, it also illuminates a whole era: not only the world of theater, but also the worlds of women, politics, society, Europe and America, and, indeed, of history making itself.

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About the Author:

Sarah Bernhardt ( 22 or 23 October 1844 – 26 March 1923) was a French stage actress who starred in some of the most popular French plays of the late 19th and early 20th century, including La Dame Aux Camelias by Alexandre Dumas, fils, Ruy Blas by Victor Hugo, Fédora and La Tosca by Victorien Sardou, and L'Aiglon by Edmond Rostand. She also played male roles, including Shakespeare's Hamlet. Edmond Rostand called her "the queen of the pose and the princess of the gesture" while Victor Hugo praised her "golden voice". Her death scenes in the final acts of her main roles often moved the audiences to tears. She made successful theatrical tours around the world, and was one of the first prominent actresses to make sound recordings and to act in motion pictures.

About this edition

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1482078708
• ISBN 13: 9781482078701
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 560