Starring Madame Modjeska: On Tour in Poland and America (Hardcover)
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In 1876, Poland's leading actress, Helena Modrzejewska, accompanied by family and friends, emigrated to southern California to establish a utopian commune that soon failed. Within a year Modrzejewska made her debut in the title role of Adrienne Leco......more
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In 1876, Poland's leading actress, Helena Modrzejewska, accompanied by family and friends, emigrated to southern California to establish a utopian commune that soon failed. Within a year Modrzejewska made her debut in the title role of Adrienne Lecouvreur at San Francisco's California Theatre. She changed her name to Modjeska and quickly became a leading star on the American stage, where she reigned for the next 30 years. During this time, she established herself as America's most esteemed Shakespearean actress, playing opposite such celebrated actors as Edwin Booth and Maurice Barrymore. Starring Madame Modjeska traces Modjeska's fabulous life and career from her illegitimate birth in Krakow, to her successive reinventions of herself as a star in both Poland and America, and finally to her enduring legacy.
Beth Holmgren is Professor of Slavic and Eurasian Studies and Theater Studies at Duke University. She is author of Women's Works in Stalin's Time (IUP, 1993), editor (with Helena Goscilo) of Poles Apart: Women in Modern Polish Culture and Russia ? Women ? Culture (IUP, 1996), and translator and editor (with Helena Goscilo) of The Keys to Happiness by Anastasya Verbitskaya (IUP, 1999).
- Author:
- Holmgren, Beth
- Genre:
- DRAMA / American
- Audience:
- College/higher education
- Format:
- Hardcover
- Pages:
- 408
- Language:
- English
- Publisher:
- Indiana Univ Pr
- Publish Date:
- 11/10/2011
- Copyright Year:
- 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780253356642
- Height:
- 9.0 in
- Wdth:
- 6.25 in
- Thickness:
- 1.25 in
- Unit weight:
- 1.6 lb
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