Sarah Bernhardt at the Jewish Museum/Sarah Bernhardt, Live: A Reply to Allen Ellenzweig

From: Studies in Gender and Sexuality | Date: January 1, 2007| Author: Pellegrini, Ann; Ellenzweig, Allen | Copyright information

"Sarah Bernhardt at the Jewish Museum" reviews the recent retrospective exhibition on the life and career of the French actress Sarah Bernhardt (1844-1923), who created several enduring models of femininity, including templates for tempestuous stage actress, theatrical producer and self-promoter, sexual libertine, egotistical publicity hound, and sophisticated demimondaine. Establishing herself as the greatest stage tragidienne of France's high dramatic literature, Bernhardt played to the mas...

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