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3.0 out of 5 stars
Sarah Bernhardt remains evasive,
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This review is from: Sarah Bernhardt and Her World (Hardcover)
While Ms. Richardson has given us a good overview of Bernhardt's life, she never quite gets below the surface of what made her the unique actress she was. She mentions that the French audiences became quite cool toward her but never bothers to epxlain that Zola and Baudelaire had brought realism to literature and the theater of that time and that Mme. Sarah's grand way of acting and declaming was out of style. She mentions the personalities who peopled Bernhardt's world but, for readers unfamiliar with French art and literature, it is never explained what place they occupied. There are several quotations in French but no translation is supplied. The illustrations are marvelous but take up too much of the book - more detailed text would be appreciated.
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Sarah Bernhardt and Her World by Joanna Richardson (Hardcover - February 24, 1977)
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