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	All About Jewish Theatre - ELEONORA DUSE: A Biography by Helen Sheehy
		Duse (doo-ZAY) had learned the fundamentals of acting as a member of her family's troupe, a struggling, itinerant theater company that depended on each day's small income to pay for the day's bread and a bed for the night.
		Duse harbored a profound mistrust of language and probed deeply beneath the lines of her characters to discover - and to portray - what she called the invisible side of life.
		Though Sheehy, unlike Duse, is necessarily limited to words, she has produced a biography that enables readers to come as close as one could reasonably expect to both the visible and the invisible worlds of an actress who may have been simply the best.
	www.jewish-theatre.com /visitor/article_display.aspx?articleID=513 (870 words)

	Chicago Sun-Times: Eleonora Duse, the original 'doozy'
		Of course Duse also was a real woman, and in addition to her artistry, Sheehy (who has also penned biographies of the American actress and innovator Eva Le Gallienne, and theater director-producer Margo Jones) deftly captures the profound contradictions and emotional storms that drove her art and her personal life.
		Precisely how Duse (who was born in the Veneto region of Italy in 1859 and died on tour in the U.S. in 1924), evolved into an actress of such depth and modernity is central to Sheehy's book, which traces the combination of instinct, emotional tuning and life experience that shaped the actress' art.
		Duse's spirit comes to life on the book's very first page, as Sheehy zestfully reconstructs her triumph, at the age of 14, in the role of Juliet.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qn4155/is_20030831/ai_n12513603 (892 words)

	Eleonora Duse (1858-1924)
		DUSE, ELEONORA (1858-1924), Italian actress, was born at Vigevano of a family of actors, and made her first stage appearance at a very early age.
		The hardships incident to touring with travelling companies unfavourably affected her health, but by 1885 she was recognized at home as Italy's greatest actress, and this verdict was confirmed by that of all the leading cities of Europe and America.
		Ill-health kept Madame Duse off the stage for some time; but though, after 1900, it was no longer possible for her to avoid "make-up," her rank among the greatest actresses of history remained undisputable.
	www.theatrehistory.com /italian/duse001.html (288 words)

	Theater News - Tunes, Tomes, & Videos: La Duse -
		Duse is a natural subject for Sheehy to pursue after her book on Le Gallienne: Duse was Le Gallienne's role model (also an acquaintance); and Le Gallienne, late in life, wrote a biography of the Italian actress, The Mystic in the Theatre.
		Duse -- or "La Duse," as she was known at the height of her career -- was Sarah Bernhardt's chief rival on the European stage and, along with Bernhardt, one of the first global (or nearly global) superstars.
		Duse cultivated an aura of mystery as the keynote of her public relations campaign, yet she spilled her secrets into the letters she wrote incessantly.
	www.theatermania.com /content/news.cfm?int_news_id=3888 (1422 words)

	SBPL Book Review
		But the brand new biography of the famed Italian actress, "Eleonora Duse" by Helen Sheehy, researched in newly found sources, depicts a woman of extraordinary talent as well as resilience and determination, a woman who suffered at the hands of men but also doled out just as much suffering to her tormentors.
		Duse was born in October 1858 in tiny Vigevano near Milan to itinerant actors and started acting at the age of four.
		Duse would go on to bewitch audiences from Russia to America with her ability to totally transform herself into the character she was portraying on stage.
	www.empirenet.com /~sbpl/sept_14_03.html (708 words)

	Eleonora Duse : A Biography (Helen Sheehy)
		Sometimes Duse was foolish about men and about writing, and according to the standards of the day she was a bad mother, but other than that, she was sublime in every way.
		Eleonora wants to say that her's and her's alone is the thespian refinement you invoke with a glance and the faintest of tragic smiles.
		Duse's was a ragged and browbeaten Commedia dell'Arte peddling town to town in late nineteenth century Italy.
	www.truefresco.com /bookshop/us/product/0375400176.htm (1384 words)

	All About Jewish Theatre - Drama's Queen / Eleonora Duse, the great 19th century actress
		With this problem in mind, taking her cue directly from Duse, Sheehy affirms that the theater "is a metaphor for life - and death - itself." It isn't and never was a reflection of reality, but a vision, a prayer - as Duse would have said, a "dream" of existence.
		Sheehy wastes no time in declaring that Eleonora Duse "was the first modern actor," an inspiration to Chekhov, Zola, Stanislavsky, Rilke and Joyce, a woman who dazzled Shaw, enchanted Charlie Chaplin and mesmerized Isadora Duncan, her great friend and another inexplicable phenomenon of modern art.
		As an actress, Duse had no training in the formal sense; what she knew she had learned on the road, as the daughter, granddaughter and great- granddaughter of itinerant Italian actors.
	www.jewish-theatre.com /visitor/article_display.aspx?articleID=238 (880 words)

	Eleonora Duse -- Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - The online encyclopedia you can trust!
		Most of Duse's family were actors who played in the same touring troupe, and she made her first stage appearance at the age of four in a dramatization of Victor Hugo's Les Misérables.
		The French actress's success in modern roles gave Duse the idea also of appearing in plays by contemporary French dramatists (for she had discovered that Italian audiences were bored by the stale pieces that formed the traditional repertory), and so for three years she acted in a number of plays by the younger Alexandre Dumas.
		The British playwright George Bernard Shaw was one of the many critics fascinated by Duse's ability to produce an illusion “of being infinite in variety of beautiful pose and motion.” He confessed that “in an apparent million of changes and inflexions” he had never seen her at an “awkward angle” (Dramatic Opinions and Essays, 1907).
	www.britannica.com /ebc/article-9031597 (1175 words)

	Bookreporter.com - ELEONORA DUSE: A Biography by Helen Sheehy
		Sarah Bernhardt achieved international celebrity at a time when acting was primarily a pictorial art, and she clung to that style long after it had come to be regarded as old-fashioned, in the latter part of the 1800s.
		Sheehy's examination of how Duse differed from Bernhardt, who in most ways exemplified everything that was believed to be desirable in an actor, makes her contributions and innovations more easily appreciated, particularly for readers with little or no knowledge of the theater.
		Duse harbored a profound mistrust of language and probed deeply beneath the lines of her characters to discover --- and to portray --- what she called the invisible side of life.
	www.bookreporter.com /reviews/0375400176.asp (776 words)

	AllRefer.com - Eleonora Duse (Theater, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		For some years a romantic attachment existed between Duse and the Italian poet Gabriele D'Annunzio, whose plays she was often the first to present and champion.
		Duse's acting was characterized by simplicity and lack of theatrical artifice.
		She excelled in emotional parts, and her dramatic power, however restrained, was tremendous in its effect.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/D/Duse-Ele.html (282 words)

	Eleonora Duse by Helen Sheehy
		Duse connected voice, body, and thought to reveal the inner life as well as the outer form of a character.
		Duse was a complex, difficult woman and she chose complex, difficult, demanding, but fascinating men–Martino Cafiero, her first lover and the father of her illegitimate son, wouldn’t marry her; Arrigo Boito, Verdi’s librettist, was afraid to commit to her; and poet and playwright Gabriele d’Annunzio used her for his own artistic purposes.
		Duse used her sensuality onstage by touching her acting partners, kissing the male lead on the mouth instead of the traditional cheek or the forehead.
	www.randomhouse.com /catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780375400179&view=qa (727 words)

	Helen Sheehy - Eleonora Duse. A Biography
		"Duse has been more mythologized than studied, making Sheehy's utterly absorbing portrait, the first to draw on a wealth of rediscovered letters and memoirs, as fresh and dramatic as it is detailed and groundbreaking.
		Looking at Duse, I realized why the Russian theatre is such a bore.” Charlie Chaplin called her “the finest thing I have seen on the stage.” Gloria Swanson and Lillian Gish watched her perform with adoring attention, John Barrymore with awe.
		Sheehy writes about the Duse that the actress herself tried to hide—tracing her life from her childhood as a performing member of a family of actors touring their repertory of drama and commedia dell’arte through Italy.
	www.uncg.edu /gar/courses/lixl/380BLS/380Unit4/Lesson4Modernism_files/DuseBiography.htm (579 words)

	INVENTORY OF ITALIAN THEATER PRINTS, ca. 1550-1983 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The full-length profile portrait is of Italian actress Eleonora Duse shown in the role of Francesca da Rimini at the Teatro Costanzi in Rome.
		Eleonora Duse is shown playing the role of Paula for a performance of Sir A. Pinero's play Second Mrs Tanqueray at the Lyceum Theatre in London.
		Eleonora Duse is standing with eyes closed, enacting the role of Rebecca West for a performance of Henrik Johan Ibsen's play Rosmersholm at the National Theatre in Christiana (Oslo).
	www.getty.edu /research/conducting_research/finding_aids/itprints_m9.html (3077 words)

	Sample text for Library of Congress control number 2002033997
		Already a stage veteran of ten years, Eleonora was the leading lady in her family's troupe, a struggling, itinerant theatre company engaged to perform Romeo and Juliet that afternoon in Verona's ancient arena.
		Under a "sky white as pearl," Eleonora heard the bells of the churches of Verona and "that almost sea-sound which quieted when I appeared." Mingling love with death, she covered Romeo, who lay in the tomb, with the last of her roses, and they wilted in the heat.
		Eleonora Duse freed herself from the superficial mask of stage makeup and then she stripped away another mask.
	www.loc.gov /catdir/samples/random045/2002033997.html (2440 words)

	Theater News - Feature: Dueling Divas - Pamela Payton-Wright and Laura Esterman spar and sparkle as Sarah Bernhardt and ...
		Pamela Payton-Wright and Laura Esterman spar and sparkle as Sarah Bernhardt and Eleonora Duse in Duet.
		This is true of the two actresses who are considered the consummate mistresses of 19th-century acting: Sarah Bernhardt and Eleonora Duse, the subjects of Otho Eskin's Duet.
		I think, artistically speaking, Duse was not in a state of rivalry with Bernhardt because she had no desire to be her; Bernhardt had inspired her to do what she wanted to do.
	www.theatermania.com /content/news.cfm?int_news_id=4193 (1373 words)

	Eleonora Duse (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Eleonora was idolized all over the world for her great interpretive roles in the heroines of the playwright Henrik Ibsen.
		Eleonora Duse appeared also in many plays by contemporary French dramatists.
		She formed her own theatre troupe with which she toured the world; she died while on tour in the United States.
	www.hyperhistory.com /online_n2/people_n2/women_n2/duse.html (226 words)

	Duse and Bernhardt face off
		Eleonora Duse and Sarah Bernhardt lay in scattered pages all over the floor of the pocket-sized Greenwich Street Theatre after a grueling rehearsal session the other night.
		ELEONORA: When I perform in a play I am part of something greater than I am — something that reveals the secrets of the human heart — and we are enriched by it.
		Pamela Payton-Wright, the Eleonora Duse of “Duet,” held her peace, thanks perhaps to the breakthrough that both actresses — these actresses right here, playing those actresses — said they and director Ludovica Villar-Hauser, founder and owner of the Greenwich Street Theatre, had just that afternoon accomplished in what was the fourth week of rehearsal.
	www.thevillager.com /villager_30/duse.html (836 words)

	Amazon.ca: Eleonora Duse: a Biography: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Universally acclaimed by the time she died in 1924 at 65, Duse has been more mythologized than studied, making Sheehy's utterly absorbing portrait the first to draw on a wealth of rediscovered letters and memoirs, as fresh and dramatic as it is detailed and groundbreaking.
		An avid reader and letter writer, a reluctant mother, and an extravagantly emotional lover and friend, Duse--as evoked so convincingly by Sheehy as intensely private yet adept at attracting and holding the attention her art demanded--overcame myriad obstacles and ultimately found in acting and communion with her audience true exaltation and transcendence.
		The name Duse has been synonymous with the highest possible attainment in acting, even though she is little known outside the theater.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0375400176 (1864 words)

	The Colour of Life - Eleonora Duse
		It is in the long exchange of stove-side talk between Nora and the other woman of "The Doll's House." Signora Duse may have felt some misgivings as to the effect of a dialogue having so little symmetry, such half-hearted feeling, and, in a word, so little visible or audible drama as this.
		Nature is the only authentic art of the stage, and the Italian woman is natural: none other so natural and so justified by her nature as Eleonora Duse; but all, as far as their nature goes, natural.
		Signora Duse has this immunity, but she has a far nobler deliverance from vanities, in her own peculiar distance and dignity.
	www.worldwideschool.org /library/books/lit/essays/TheColourofLife/chap8.html (1436 words)

	DW communications - communications and events planning for the arts
		Duse brings the life of ‘the greatest actress the world has ever known’ to Toronto audiences as Duse recounts her passionate memoirs alone in a hotel room in Pittsburgh as she prepares for what will be her final performance.
		At the turn of the last century, Italian born actress Eleonora Duse (1858-1924) reigned as the divine light of the Italian stage.
		As Duse weighs her heart, she will gather the strength and the courage for what will be her final performance.
	www.dwcommunications.net /duse.htm (810 words)

	Matt & Andrej Koymasky - Famous GLTB - Eleonora Duse (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Also Duse's friendship with the dancer Isadora Duncan was rumored to be a lesbian relationship.
		Death struck Duse in Pittsburg, USA, where she was on a triumphant tour, during which the American poet Amy Lowell fell madly in love, at first sight, with Duse, in honour of whom she wrote her first lyrical verses.
		Duse was buried in Italy after a state funeral in the town of Asolo, a place she loved dearly and where she had bought a house in which, because of continuing renovation, she had never been able to live.
	andrejkoymasky.com /liv/fam/biod3/duse1.html (295 words)

	Eleonora Duse - Britannica Concise
		Duse, Eleonora - Italian actress who found her great interpretive roles in the heroines of the Italian playwright Gabriele D'Annunzio and of the Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen.
		Craig, Edward Gordon - English actor, theatre director-designer, producer, and theorist who influenced the development of the theatre in the 20th century.
		Search for "Eleonora Duse" at Encyclopædia Britannica Online for all this plus dictionary definitions, magazine articles, and more.
	concise.britannica.com /ebc/article-9363257?tocId=9363257 (384 words)

	Duet, a CurtainUp review
		Eleonora is distraught rather than pleased to see her old rival.
		The ethereal get-together of one actress a month prior to her death and the other as ghost intruder is a workable device to triggers memories of how each became an actress and developed her signature style.
		However, since Duse preferred the roles offered by new playwrights of the day like Ibsen to the more melodramatic romances of writers like Dumas, opening Duet with her playing Marguerite at the over-ripe age of sixty-five, seems to be Mr.
	www.curtainup.com /duet2003.html (916 words)

	Manuscripts Catalogue - Documents
		Photocopy of advance publicity on Eleonora Duse, produced by her agents in French.
		Photocopy of programme for Rappresentazioni di Eleonora Duse, December 1906, at the Teatro della Pergola.
		With advertisement for Eleonora Duse in Visita di Nozze and Locandiera
	special.lib.gla.ac.uk /manuscripts/search/resultsda.cfm?AID=4664 (6085 words)

	The Lady With the Beautiful Hands
		When the interviewer saw them lying on the table, the news was shortly given to the world "that Madame Duse had a passion for collecting scissors." Such experiences had made her shy in meeting strangers.
		When the door of her suite was opened I confess, in the darkness, I nearly mistook her companion for Duse herself.
		When she finally came in from her bedroom, she went straight to her personal manager without looking at me. Then, when he greeted her and mentioned my name, she turned quickly towards me with a measuring glance, her lips murmuring a greeting as she extended her hand, which I saluted in Continental fashion.
	www.theatrehistory.com /italian/duse002.html (1597 words)

	Eleonora DUSE : astrology, horoscope, planets, Map of the Heavens, Interactive Chart
		Just click on the Dynamic Natal Chart of Eleonora DUSE with the positions of planets, astrological houses, and the list of the aspects with orbs in degrees and minutes.
		Depending of the fact that the time of birth is known or not, 6 or 11 planets distributions and planets dominants have been computed for the natal chart of Eleonora DUSE.
		Texts are not translated, so if you wish to read interpretations associated with theses computations, you need to go to the full astrological Portrait of Eleonora DUSE and to use this Automatic Free Website Translator.
	www.astrotheme.fr /en/portraits/X42t34s2LDtA.htm (575 words)

	BookCloseouts.com - The Bestseller in Bargain Books
		Eleonora Duse was the most important actress of her time - considered greater than Sarah Bernhardt.
		Over time, Duse's life and art have become shrouded in myth.
		Drawing on newly discovered memoirs and unpublished letters, Sheehy writes about Duse's relationships with Rilke, John Barrymore, and her lover Gabriele D'Annunzio.
	www.bookcloseouts.com /?N=-138357 (145 words)

	Gallery Bookshop - Tony Miksak's Words On Books
		Bemused, you close Eleonora and place her carefully, alphabetically, on the next-to-the-top shelf.
		From The New Yorker: Eleonora Duse, the turn-of-the-century Italian actress who inspired Stanislavsky's Method, told her company that to play Ibsen's characters they had to know unhappiness, and, if necessary, they should go looking for it.
		Duse was a genius at creating misery for herself; her disastrous affair with the poet Gabriele d'Annunzio must have fed her onstage characterizations of Hedda and Marguerite, just as it gave d'Annunzio material for his novel "Il Fuoco." Duse lived 1858 to 1924.
	www.gallerybooks.com /bkm/wob040314.html (986 words)

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