HOMOPHONE
Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language
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HOMOPHONE. One of two or more words that are identical in sound but different in spelling and meaning:
beer/bier,
there/their/they're. The occurrence of homophones is largely a matter of historical chance, in which words with distinct meanings come to coincide phonologically:
byre a cowshed,
buyer one who buys. Words may be homophones in one variety of English but not another:
father/farther and
for/four are homophonous in RP, but not in AmE and ScoE;
wails/Wales are general homophones;
wails/Wales/whales are homophones for many, but not in IrE and ScoE.
Whether/whither are homophones in Scotland, but not
whether/weather, which are homophones in England. See
HOMONYM.
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Act like a lady: an Italian actress gets real.(Eleonora Duse)
Magazine article from: New Moon; 11/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...by a great performance, thank Eleonora Duse (pronounced Doo-zay). Even...style we know and love today. Eleonora Duse was born in Italy in 1858 to a...entertainment. For more information on Eleonora Duse, visit www.forgirlsandtheirdreams...
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Arid, Addled "Eleonora Duse"
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 1/2/1987; ; 539 words
; "ELEONORA DUSE," a one-woman show at New Playwrights...the play is riddled with redundancies - Duse tells us at least four times that her...a Berlitz production. -Joe Brown. ELEONORA DUSE - At New Playwrights' Theater through...
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Eleonora Duse, the original 'doozy'
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 8/31/2003; ; 700+ words
; Eleanora Duse A Biography By Helen Sheehy Knopf. $32...the fabled, highly influential Eleanora Duse--the Italian actress whose career spanned...job of conjuring the elusive. Of course Duse also was a real woman, and in addition...
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ELEONORA DUSEBOOKS / Nonfiction
Newspaper article from: International Herald Tribune; 8/27/2003; ; 700+ words
; 00-00-0000 ELEONORA DUSE A BiographyBy Helen Sheehy.Illustrated. 380 pages. $32.50...than her great rival, the flamboyantly romantic Sarah Bernhardt, Eleonora Duse was ''the first modern actor,'' says Helen Sheehy in her new...
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Biography of 'first modern actor' artful, well-researched
Newspaper article from: Daily Breeze; 9/21/2003; ; 700+ words
; THE NEW YORK TIMES ELEONORA DUSE: A Biography By Helen Sheehy...flamboyantly romantic Sarah Bernhardt, Eleonora Duse was "the first modern actor...her granddaughter. The result, Eleonora Duse: A Biography, is an artful...
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Rivals in the spotlight Tension stars in meeting of legendary actresses.(Spotlight)
Newspaper article from: Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO); 3/23/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...rivals were Sarah Bernhardt and Eleonora Duse, the great stage actresses of...the middle ground." INFOBOX Eleonora Duse * Born: 1859, legendarily in...from left, Monique Fowler as Eleonora Duse, Bill Christ as Gustave-Hippolite...
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Missing the Essence
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 1/1/1987; ; 649 words
; ...impersonating a legendary actress like Eleonora Duse, as Dorothea Hammond is doing...prompted Stanislavsky to say that Duse was beyond the "method," that...whatever that may have been. Eleonora Duse, created and performed by Dorothea...
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DUET
Magazine article from: The Village Voice; 12/17/2003; ; 564 words
; ...star of the 19th-century stage, Eleonora Duse was the greatest actress. Bernhardt...ghost of Bernhardt visits an ailing Duse, whose years of debilitating touring...Sheehey's valuable new book, Eleonora Duse, a straightforward biography that...
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SHORT TAKES
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 9/21/2003; ; 700+ words
; ELEONORA DUSE: A Biography By Helen Sheehy Knopf, 380 pp., illustrated, $32.50 Born into a theatrical family, Eleonora Duse was on the stage at 4 and starring in "Romeo and Juliet" at 14. Her...
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Lively 'Ladies' can't find exit.(Spotlight)
Newspaper article from: Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO); 3/31/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...of legendary actresses Sarah Bernhardt and Eleonora Duse in Bernhardt's Paris theater. There, Duse was to perform Bernhardt's signature role...between Bernhardt, a great stylist, and Duse, who sought a more natural effect. Both...
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Eleonora Duse
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Eleonora Duse , 1859-1924, Italian actress. From a...years a romantic attachment existed between Duse and the Italian poet Gabriele D'Annunzio...in his Lady from the Sea in New York. Duse's acting was characterized by simplicity...
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Duse, Eleonora
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Theatre
Duse, Eleonora (1858–1924), actress...during which she died in Pittsburgh. Duse was a small, darkish, lithe woman with...Rimini , and La Citta Morta . Biography: Eleonora Duse , Arthur Symons, 1926.
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Gabriele D'Annunzio
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...depicts his relationship to Eleonora Duse. Among D'Annunzio's numerous...Annunzio's relationship with Eleonora Duse see Bertita L. Harding, Age...Biography of Gabriele D'Annunzio and Eleonora Duse (1956). □
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Oxford Music-Hall
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre
...briefly for films, but returned to live theatre with plays starring Sacha Guitry and Yvonne Printemps and a visit from Eleonora Duse . In 1924 the Old Vic company made its first West End appearance at the Oxford, with productions by Robert Atkins...
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Daly's Theatre
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre
...Hunchback , with Violet Vanbrugh , and in 1894 by Twelfth Night and As You Like It . In the same year Daly presented Eleonora Duse in the younger Dumas's La Dame aux camélias . Later Edwardes transferred the musical comedy A Gaiety Girl...
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